1996 in The United Kingdom - Deaths

Deaths

  • 8 January - Norrie McCathie, footballer (born 1961)
  • 16 January - Harry Potts, former footballer and football manager (born 1920)
  • 11 February - Cyril Poole, former cricketer (born 1921)
  • 14 February - Bob Paisley, former footballer and football manager (born 1919)
  • 27 February - Pat Smythe, show jumper (born 1928)
  • 25 March - John Snagge, radio personality (born 1904)
  • 6 April - Greer Garson, actress (born 1904)
  • 20 April - Christopher Robin Milne, author and bookseller (born 1920)
  • 2 May - Peter Swales, businessman and former football chairman (born 1932)
  • 20 May - Jon Pertwee, actor (born 1919)
  • 2 June - Leon Garfield, children's author (born 1921)
  • 4 August - Geoff Hamilton, television presenter (born 1936)
  • 9 August - Frank Whittle, RAF officer and inventor (born 1907)
  • 11 October - Terry Patchett, Labour Member of Parliament (born 1940)
  • 13 October - Beryl Reid, actress (born 1919)
  • 16 October - Eric Malpass, novelist (born 1910)
  • 22 October - Matthew Harding, businessman (born 1953)
  • 6 November - Tommy Lawton, footballer (born 1919)
  • 24 November - Sorley MacLean, Scottish Gaelic poet (born 1911)
  • 26 November - Michael Bentine, comedian and comic actor (born 1922)
  • 9 December - Mary Leakey, archaeologist (born 1913)
  • 11 December - Willie Rushton, comedian, actor, and cartoonist (born 1937)
  • 11 December - W. G. G. Duncan Smith, World War II pilot (born 1914)
  • 16 December - Quentin Bell, biographer and art historian (born 1910)

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