2003 in The United Kingdom - Deaths

Deaths

  • 5 January - Roy Jenkins, former Labour government minister and later founder member and the first leader of the now defunct Social Democratic Party (born 1920)
  • 8 January - Ron Goodwin, composer (born 1925)
  • 12 January - Maurice Gibb, musician and singer-songwriter (born 1949); died in the United States of America
  • 26 January - Hugh Trevor-Roper, historian (born 1914)
  • 26 January - George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, politician (born 1931)
  • 14 February - Dolly the Sheep, cloned sheep (born 1996)
  • 27 February - John Lanchbery, composer (born 1923)
  • 8 March - Adam Faith, actor and singer (born 1940)
  • 22 March - Terry Lloyd, ITN television journalist (born 1952); killed in Iraq
  • 11 April - Cecil Howard Green, geophysicist and businessman (born 1900)
  • 14 May - Wendy Hiller, actress (born 1912)
  • 10 June - Bernard Williams, philosopher (born 1929)
  • 26 June -
    • Sir Denis Thatcher, husband of former prime minister Margaret Thatcher (born 1915)
    • Marc-Vivien Foé, British-based Cameroonian footballer (born 1975); died in France while playing football for his country
  • 1 July - George Roper, comedian (born 1934)
  • 10 July -
    • - Winston Graham, writer (born 1908)
    • - Hartley Shawcross, chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials (born 1902)
  • 17 July - Dr. David Kelly, government weapons expert (born 1944); suspected suicide
  • 25 July - John Schlesinger, film director (born 1926)
  • 27 July - Bob Hope, comedian (born 1902)
  • 9 August -
    • - Ray Harford, footballer and football manager (born 1945)
    • - Jimmy Davis, footballer (born 1982)
  • 1 September - Terry Frost, artist (born 1915)
  • 26 September - Robert Palmer, singer (born 1949)
  • 5 October - Denis Quilley, actor (born 1927)
  • 4 November - Richard Wollheim, philosopher (born 1923)
  • 2 December - Alan Davidson (born 1924)
  • 27 December - Alan Bates, actor (born 1934)
  • 29 December - Dinsdale Landen, actor (cancer) (born 1932)
  • 29 December - Bob Monkhouse, comedian and game show host (born 1928)

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