2004 in The United Kingdom - Deaths

Deaths

  • 4 January - Joan Aiken, writer (born 1924)
  • 13 January - Harold Shipman, serial killer (born 1946)
  • 26 January - Hugh Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Putney, politician (born 1908)
  • 27 January - Hugh Scanlon, trade union leader (born 1913)
  • 29 January - M. M. Kaye, writer (born 1908)
  • 1 February -
    • - Ally MacLeod, former manager of the Scotland national football team (born 1931)
    • - Bob Stokoe, former footballer and football manager (born 1930)
  • 6 February - Humphry Osmond, psychiatrist (born 1917)
  • 15 March - John Pople, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1925)
  • 28 March - Peter Ustinov, actor, writer, dramatist and raconteur (born 1921)
  • 13 April - Caron Keating, television presenter (born 1962)
  • 19 April - Norris McWhirter, political activist and television presenter (born 1925)
  • 3 May - Anthony Ainley, actor (born 1932)
  • 14 May - Anna Lee, actress (born 1913)
  • 29 May - Jack Rosenthal, playwright (born 1931)
  • 1 July - Peter Barnes, playwright and screenwriter (born 1931)
  • 18 July - Paul Foot, journalist and nephew of former Labour Party leader Michael Foot (born 1937)
  • 28 July - Francis Crick, scientist, discoverer of the structure of DNA (born 1916)
  • 12 August - Godfrey Hounsfield, electrical engineer and inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1919)
  • 13 October - Bernice Rubens, novelist (born 1928)
  • 20 October - Lynda Lee-Potter Daily Mail columnist (born 1935)
  • 21 October - Vincent Brome, writer (born 1910)
  • 23 October - Bill Nicholson, footballer and football manager (born 1919)
  • 25 October - John Peel, DJ and radio presenter (born 1939)
  • 29 October - Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, member of the Royal Family and last surviving aunt of The Queen (born 1901)
  • 29 October - Peter Twinn, mathematician, World War II codebreaker and entomologist (born 1916)
  • 6 November - Fred Dibnah, steeplejack and television personality (born 1938)
  • 9 November - Emlyn Hughes, footballer, football manager and TV gameshow captain (born 1947)
  • 19 November - John Robert Vane, pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1927)
  • 2 December - Alicia Markova, ballerina (born 1910)
  • 24 December - Anthony Meyer, former Conservative MP who unsuccessfully challenged Margaret Thatcher's leadership in 1989 (born 1920)

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