2006 in The United Kingdom - Deaths

Deaths

  • 2 January – John Woodnutt, actor (born 1924)
  • 5 January – Merlyn Rees, former Home Secretary (born 1920)
  • 8 January – Tony Banks, Baron Stratford, former Labour Party MP and Minister for Sport (b 1943)
  • 24 January – Sir Nicholas Shackleton, geologist (b 1937)
  • 8 February – Ron Greenwood, former footballer and football manager (born 1921)
  • 9 February – Sir Freddie Laker, airline entrepreneur (born 1922)
  • 13 February – P. F. Strawson, philosopher (born 1919)
  • 24 February – Denis C. Twitchett, Cambridge scholar, and Chinese historian (born 1925)
  • 27 February – Linda Smith, comedian (born 1958)
  • 1 March
    • Hugh McCartney, Scottish politician (born 1920)
    • Peter Osgood, former footballer (born 1947)
  • 2 March – Jack Wild, actor (born 1952)
  • 3 March – Ivor Cutler, poet, songwriter and humorist (born 1923)
  • 9 March – John Profumo, politician (born 1915)
  • 24 March – Lynne Perrie, actress (born 1931)
  • 27 March – Ruari McLean, typographic designer (born 1917)
  • 6 April – Leslie Norris, Anglo-Welsh poet and author (born 1921)
  • 13 April – Muriel Spark, Scottish novelist (born 1918)
  • 17 April – Calum Kennedy, Scottish singer (born 1928)
  • 18 April – John Lyall, former footballer and football manager (born 1940)
  • 24 April – Brian Labone, former footballer (born 1940)
  • 25 April – Peter Law, Welsh politician (born 1948)
  • 8 May – Iain MacMillan, photographer (born 1938)
  • 10 May – Val Guest, film director (born 1911)
  • 19 May – Freddie Garrity, singer (Freddie and the Dreamers) (born 1940)
  • 28 June – George Unwin, fighter ace WWII (born 1913)
  • 1 July – Fred Trueman, cricketer (born 1931)
  • 7 July
    • Syd Barrett, founding member of Pink Floyd (born 1946)
    • Tom Weir, climber, author, and broadcaster (born 1914)
  • 11 July – John Spencer, snooker player (born 1935)
  • 16 July – Kevin Hughes, politician and MP for Doncaster North (born 1952)
  • 18 July – David Maloney, television director and producer (born 1933
  • 20 July – Ted Grant, politician (born 1913)
  • 28 July – David Gemmell, author (born 1948)
  • 13 August – Tony Jay, English-born actor (born 1933)
  • 1 September – Kyffin Williams, landscape painter (born 1918)
  • 2 September –
    • – Charlie Williams, comedian and former footballer (born 1928)
    • – Lionel Pickering, businessman and former football chairman (born 1932)
  • 5 September – Anne Gregg, travel writer and TV presenter (born 1940)
  • 8 September – Hilda Bernstein, English-born author, artist, and activist (born 1915)
  • 9 September – John Drummond, controller of BBC Radio 3 (born 1934)
  • 14 September – Peter Ling, Television writer and novelist (born 1926)
  • 23 September – Malcolm Arnold, composer (born 1921)
  • 24 September – Sally Gray, actress (born 1916)
  • 28 September – James Hamilton, 4th Baron Hamilton of Dalzell, politician (born 1938)
  • 4 October – Tom Bell, actor (born 1933)
  • 9 October – Paul Hunter, snooker player (born 1978)
  • 18 October – Anna Russell, British-born comedian and music satirist (born 1911)
  • 22 October – Richard Mayes, actor (born 1922)
  • 7 November – Elizabeth Balneaves, writer and filmmaker (born 1902)
  • 23 November
    • Nick Clarke radio and television presenter (born 1948)
    • Alexander Litvinenko, Russian defector (born 1962); died in Britain after being poisoned
  • 27 November – Alan Freeman DJ and radio personality (born 1927, Australia)
  • 3 December – Craig Hinton, writer (born 1964)
  • 23 December – Charlie Drake, comedian (born 1925)
  • 26 December – Marmaduke Hussey, Baron Hussey of North Bradley, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the BBC (born 1923)
  • 30 December – Antony Lambton, politician (born 1922)

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