2002 in The United Kingdom - Deaths

Deaths

• 20 January - Peter Adamson, actor (born 1929)
• 9 February - Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, sister of the Queen (born 1930)
• 16 February - Sir Walter Winterbottom, footballer and football manager (born 1913)
• 21 February - John Thaw, actor (born 1942)
• 27 February - Spike Milligan, comedian, writer and poet (born 1918)
• 4 March
  • Claire Davenport, actress (born 1933)
  • Eric Flynn, actor and singer (born 1939)
• c.21 March - Amanda Dowler, murder victim (born 1988); body found 18 September
• 26 March - Kenneth Wolstenholme, retired sports commentator (born 1920)
• 27 March - Dudley Moore, comedian and actor (born 1935)
• 30 March - Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, consort of George VI and mother of Elizabeth II (born 1900)
• 31 March - Barry Took, comedian, writer and television presenter (born 1928)
• 16 April - Billy Ayre, football coach, manager and former player (born 1952)
• 11 May - Diane Pretty, right-to-die campaigner (born 1958)
• 27 June - John Entwistle, bassist (The Who) (born 1944)
• 28 July - Archer John Porter Martin, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1910)
• 4 August -
  • - Carmen Silvera, actress (born 1922)
  • - Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman (both born 1991), victims of Soham Murders; bodies found 17 August
• 31 August - George Porter, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1920)
• 23 September - Vernon Corea, broadcaster (born 1927)
• 28 October - Thomas Patrick Russell, judge (born 1926)
• 2 November - Charles Sheffield, author and physicist (born 1935)
• 3 November - Lonnie Donegan, musician (King of Skiffle (born 1931)
• 15 November - Myra Hindley, Moors Murderer (born 1942)
• 18 December - Bert Millichip, former Football Association chairman (born 1914)
• 22 December - Joe Strummer, musician and singer (The Clash) (born 1952)
• 30 December - Mary Wesley, novelist (born 1912)