1995 in the United Kingdom

none November 2019 February 2012 1995 Countries of the United Kingdom England Northern Ireland Scotland Wales Popular culture 1995 British Grand Prix 1995 English cricket season Football: England Scotland 1995 in British television 1995 in British music 1995 in British radio UK in the Eurovision Song Contest 1995 Events from the year 1995 in the United Kingdom. Incumbents Monarch – Elizabeth II Prime Minister – John Major (Conservative) Events January 1 January Fred West, the 53-year-old Gloucester builder charged with killing twelve women and children (including two of his own daughters), is found to have hanged himself in his cell at Winson Green Prison, Birmingham. He was due to go on trial this year, along with his 41-year-old wife Rosemary, who is charged with ten murders. South Korean industrial giant Daewoo announces plans to build a new car factory in the United Kingdom within the next few years, costing up to £350,000,000 and creating new jobs.Kraar Louis Daewoo's Daring Drive into Europe A Korean Conglomerate And Its Charismatic Boss Are Betting Billions of Dollars That A Late-Arriving And Little-Known Car Can Succeed in a Crowded Auto Market https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1996/05/13/212383/index.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20250427084027/https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1996/05/13/212383/index.htm dead 27 April 2025 Fortune Magazine 13 May 1996 10 January – The British football transfer fee record is broken when Manchester United sign striker Andy Cole from Newcastle United in a deal valued at £7million. 20 January – The first MORI poll of 1995 shows that the Conservative Party have cut Labour's lead in the polls from 39 points to 29.Poll tracker http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8280050.stm BBC News 2010 15 February 2012 25 January – Footballer Eric Cantona, the French international forward, assaults a spectator after being sent off while playing for Manchester United against Crystal Palace in the FA Premier League. 27 January – Manchester United fine Eric Cantona £20,000 and announce that he will not play for the first team for the rest of the current football season. Cantona also faces assault charges, with a police investigation pending. February 1 February – New domestic electrical appliances must be supplied with an appropriately fused pre-wired plug.Faded Memories Light Straw http://www.lightstraw.co.uk/faded/index.html#Trivia 19 January 2011 2 February – Tennis legend Fred Perry dies aged 85 in hospital in Melbourne, Australia, following a fall. 7 February – Rumbelows, the electrical goods retailer and former sponsors of the Football League Cup, closes its 311 stores with the loss of more than 3,000 jobs. 14 February – Sizewell B nuclear power station, the UK's only commercial pressurised water reactor power station, is first synchronised with the National Grid. 15 February The manufacturing sector has reported its biggest rise in employment since the Conservatives first came to power sixteen years earlier, although the national unemployment rate rose slightly in January, still being in excess 2.5 million – it has not been below this level for more than three years. The England football team's friendly match against the Republic of Ireland in Dublin is abandoned due to the behaviour of a small number of English fans, believed to be members of far-right activist groups. 16 February – Neil Kinnock, former Leader of the Labour Party, resigns from Parliament after twenty-five years to take up a new role as a European Commissioner, sparking a by-election in his Islwyn constituency in South Wales. Don Touhig retains the seat for Labour, with nearly 70% of the vote. 17 February – The famous MG sports car brand, not seen on a volume sports car since 1980, is revived when the Rover Group announces the new MGF sports car which will go on sale in September this year. 19 February – Sir Nicholas Fairbairn, the Conservative MP for Perth and Kinross, dies in office aged 61. 21 February – George Graham, who has won six major trophies including two league titles since becoming manager of Arsenal F.C. in 1986, is sacked over allegations that he accepted illegal payments from an agent when signing two players in 1992. 24 February – The Football Association bans Eric Cantona from football for eight months, meaning that he will not be able to play competitively until after 30 September, and fine him £10,000. 26 February – Barings Bank, the UK's oldest merchant bank, collapses following $1,400,000,000 of losses by rogue trader, Nick Leeson. 28 February – The Diary of Bridget Jones column first published in The Independent.Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006 March 9 March – Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh visit Northern Ireland for the first time since the IRA and Loyalist ceasefire which came into force last year.http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/9/newsid_2516000/2516659.stm 1995: Queen marks peace in Belfast BBC News 30 January 2008 9 March 1995 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307053937/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/9/newsid_2516000/2516659.stm 7 March 2008 live 20 March – The Queen arrives in Cape Town for the first royal visit to South Africa in nearly fifty years, following the first elections under universal suffrage there, which took place last year. 23 March – French Manchester United footballer Eric Cantona is sentenced to fourteen days imprisonment at Croydon Crown Court for his assault on a Crystal Palace fan two months ago. He remains free on bail pending an appeal against his sentence, but if this is unsuccessful he will be the first footballer to be jailed in Britain for an on-field offence. 39-year-old former Scotland winger Davie Cooper dies aged 39 after suffering a brain haemorrhage. 31 March – Eric Cantona wins his appeal against his prison sentence, which is reduced to a 120-hour community service order. April 1 April – South Korean carmaker Daewoo begins selling cars in the United Kingdom. It offers a two-model range, the Nexia and Espero, updated versions of the previous generation Vauxhall Astra and Vauxhall Cavalier.Nigel Piercy Daewoo Cars Case https://www.scribd.com/doc/44526960/Daewoo-Cars-Case Scribd 15 February 2012 8 April – British-born American national Nicholas Ingram, 31, is executed in Georgia for a murder committed in 1983. 16 April – PhONEday changes all telephone area dialing codes UK-wide. May 4 May – The Conservative government's fortunes continue to decline as the local council elections see them in control of a mere eight councils, while Labour control 155 councils and the Liberal Democrats control 45. The Conservatives now have control of no councils in Wales or Scotland. 8 May – The fiftieth anniversary of VE Day is celebrated across Britain. 14 May – Blackburn Rovers become FA Premier League champions, earning them their first top division league title since 1914. 19 May – Geoffrey Dickens, the Conservative MP for Littleborough and Saddleworth, dies in office aged 63. 20 May – Everton win the FA Cup with a 1–0 win over Manchester United at Wembley Stadium. 21 May – United Kingdom BSE outbreak: First known death from variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease, that of a 19-year-old man; not until 20 March 1996 does the Secretary of State for Health announce that vCJD is caused by eating beef infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy.Meikle James Sad and painful decline of a daughter https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/oct/27/bse.jamesmeikle 2019-07-12 The Guardian 2000-10-27 London 24 May – Former Prime Minister Harold Wilson dies of cancer in London, aged 79. On 6 June his funeral takes place at St Mary's Old Church, St Mary's on the Isles of Scilly, where he is laid to rest. 25 May – Roseanna Cunningham wins the Perth by-election for the Scottish National Party, three months after the seat became vacant upon the death of the Conservative MP Sir Nicholas Fairbairn. The Conservative majority has now fallen from 21 seats to 11, in the space of three years since the last general election. June 9 June – Andrew Richards, a 26-year-old serial sex offender of West Glamorgan, becomes the first person to be convicted of male rape under the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994.http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/9/newsid_2500000/2500803.stm 1995: First man jailed for male rape BBC News 30 January 2008 9 June 1995 https://web.archive.org/web/20080107041213/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/9/newsid_2500000/2500803.stm 7 January 2008 live 14 June – Pauline Clare is appointed as Chief Constable of Lancashire Constabulary, becoming the first woman to hold the office of Chief Constable.https://www.independent.co.uk/news/first-woman-chief-constable-is-appointed-1586466.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/first-woman-chief-constable-is-appointed-1586466.html 1 May 2022 subscription live First woman chief constable is appointed The Independent 15 June 1995 20 June – Arsenal pay a British record fee of £7.5million for Inter Milan and Holland striker Dennis Bergkamp. 22 June – In an attempt to reassert his authority, John Major resigns as leader of the Conservative Party (but not as Prime Minister) triggering a leadership election. 23 June – The latest MORI opinion poll shows that Conservative support has reached an 18-month high of 32%, but Labour still have a 22-point lead over them.Voting Intention in Great Britain: 1976–present http://www.ipsos-mori.com/researchpublications/researcharchive/poll.aspx?oItemId=103 Ipsos MORI 21 June 2010 15 February 2012 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120923031349/http://www.ipsos-mori.com/researchpublications/researcharchive/poll.aspx?oItemId=103 23 September 2012 28 June–22 August – 1995 Great Britain and Ireland heat wave: The driest summer in recorded English meteorological history, with an average EWP series of only 66.9 mm in 2,Hadley Center Ranked EWP. and also the third-hottest with an average Central England temperature of 17.30 C F.http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcet/ssn_HadCET_mean_sort.txt Hadley ranked Central England temperature July 3 July The British football transfer record fee is broken for the third time this year when Liverpool sign striker Stan Collymore from Nottingham Forest for £8.5million. Experimental launch of Mondex stored-value card in Swindon.That will do nicely, sir... Computer Shopper June 1995 448 4 July – John Major wins the Conservative Party leadership election, gaining 218 votes to John Redwood's 89.http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/4/newsid_2493000/2493037.stm 1995: Major wins Conservative leadership BBC News 30 January 2008 4 July 1995 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307140630/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/4/newsid_2493000/2493037.stm 7 March 2008 live 13 July – A memorial service is held for Harold Wilson in Westminster Abbey, attended by Prince Charles, John Major, and three other living former Prime Ministers. 19 July Pensions Act 1995 receives Royal Assent, proposing to phase in a state pension age for women at 65 (equalising it with that for men) over a ten-year period and introducing measures intended to safeguard occupational pension schemes. Unemployment is reported to be on the rise again, though the government denies that it is pointing towards another recession. 23 July – War in Bosnia and Herzegovina: British forces sent to Sarajevo to help relieve the Siege of Sarajevo.http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/23/newsid_2518000/2518249.stm 1995: British forces sent to Sarajevo BBC News 30 January 2008 23 July 1995 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307140702/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/23/newsid_2518000/2518249.stm 7 March 2008 live 27 July – The Conservative government's majority is slashed further, to nine seats, as the Liberal Democrats win the Littleborough and Saddleworth seat in Lancashire, two months after it was left vacant by the death of Conservative MP Geoffrey Dickens. 30 July – A murder investigation is launched after two teenage boys, Robbie Gee and Paul Barker, are found dead near a lake in rural Cheshire. Police in North Wales begin a murder hunt after the body of seven-year-old Sophie Hook is found washed up on a beach near the Llandudno home of her grandparents, shortly after she disappeared while sleeping in a tent in the garden. The Radio Authority gives permission to GWR Group to begin programme networking across many of its FM stations. This landmark ruling begins the move by commercial radio companies in the UK to replace locally produced shows with networking.Stoller Tony Sounds Of Our Life: The Story of Independent Radio in the UK John Libbey Publishing August 3 August – 30-year-old Colwyn Bay man Howard Hughes is charged with the murder of Sophie Hook, and remanded in custody. 6 August – Pubs in England are permitted to remain open throughout Sunday afternoon for the first time.Matthew Brace Lucy Roberts Pubs enjoy taste of all-day Sunday opening https://www.independent.co.uk/news/pubs-enjoy-taste-of-all-day-sunday-opening-leaves-pubs-1595141.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/pubs-enjoy-taste-of-all-day-sunday-opening-leaves-pubs-1595141.html 1 May 2022 subscription live The Independent London 1995-08-07 2020-05-03 16 August – Unemployment is now at 2,315,300 – one of the lowest figures recorded in the last four years. 20 August – BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir London, Europe's first traditional-style purpose-built Hindu temple (and England's largest), is inaugurated in Neasden.Spirit of suburbia Adam Hardy Perspectives on Architecture November 1995 19 2 42–47 26 August – Middlesbrough F.C. move into their new 30,000-seat Riverside Stadium, to replace Ayresome Park which had been their home since 1903. Their new stadium is the largest club stadium to be built in England since the 1920s.https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/all-about/middlesbrough-fc Middlesbrough FC news, Boro transfer rumours, fixtures and more TeessideLive September 2 September – Boxer Frank Bruno wins the WBC world heavyweight championship. 27 September – The BBC begins regular Digital Audio Broadcasting, from the Crystal Palace transmitting station. October 2 October – Manchester band Oasis release their 2nd studio album (What's the Story) Morning Glory? which proves to be one of the most successful of all time. 7 October – Conservative MP Alan Howarth defects to Labour, cutting the government's majority to seven seats.How the Government's Majority Disappeared https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/special/politics97/background/pastelec/majorit.shtml politics97 BBC News 1997 15 February 2012 9 October – Former Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home dies aged 92 at his home in Coldstream in the Scottish Borders. 16 October – Julie Goodyear, who joined the ITV soap opera Coronation Street as iconic character Bet Lynch in 1966 and had been a regular cast member since 1970, departs from the show. 18 October – Unemployment drops below 2.3 million for the first time since 1991. 20 October – Vauxhall unveils its new Vectra range of large family hatchbacks and saloons. The Vectra, which replaces the long-running Cavalier, will be built in Luton and from next year will also be sold as an estate. 22 October – Brilliant!, an exhibition by the Young British Artists group (who also feature heavily in this year's British Art Show), opens at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA.Sarah Lyall https://www.nytimes.com/1995/11/12/magazine/is-it-art-or-just-dead-meat.html?pagewanted=1 Is it art or is it just dead meat? The New York Times 12 November 1995 25 October 2010 25 October – Singer Cliff Richard receives a knighthood. 31 October – The Duke of Northumberland dies aged 42 of a heart attack caused by drug abuse. He is succeeded by his younger brother. November 16 November – Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, 95, has a hip replacement operation. She is believed to be the oldest patient to undergo such surgery.http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/16/newsid_2519000/2519247.stm 1995: Queen mum hip op 'successful' BBC News 30 January 2008 16 November 1995 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307140827/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/16/newsid_2519000/2519247.stm 7 March 2008 live Essex teenager Leah Betts dies in hospital four days after slipping into a coma due to taking an ecstasy tablet whilst drinking large amounts of water, sparking a media crusade, backed by Leah's father and stepmother, against the drug and those supplying it. 17 November Launch of the European Space Agency's Infrared Space Observatory including a Long Wave Spectrometer built in the UK.Gilliland Ben Science & Discovery Metro 16 January 2009 The Today newspaper is discontinued after nine years in circulation. 20 November – "An Interview with HRH The Princess of Wales" an episode of Panorama, is broadcast on BBC One in which Diana, Princess of Wales, is interviewed by Martin Bashir. She discusses her adultery, depression and bulimia, her children, the media and the future of the monarchy in candid detail.http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/20/newsid_4341000/4341436.stm 1995: Diana admits adultery in TV interview BBC News 30 January 2008 20 November 1995 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307140414/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/20/newsid_4341000/4341436.stm 7 March 2008 live An estimated 22.78 million watch the broadcast, the all-time record for a UK current affairs programme.Top 10 Programmes – 1995 http://www.barb.co.uk/facts/since1981?year=1995&view=top10 BARB 15 February 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20120327074438/http://www.barb.co.uk/facts/since1981/?year=1995&view=top10 27 March 2012 dead 22 November – Rose West is found guilty of murdering ten women and children, including her 16-year-old daughter Heather and seven-year-old stepdaughter Charmaine, after a trial at Winchester Crown Court. She is sentenced to life imprisonment with a recommendation that she is never released. Her husband Fred, who committed suicide on remand at the start of the year, is believed to have committed at least 12 murders since the mid-1960s. 24 November – The spy James Bond returns to U.K. cinemas six years after Licence to Kill, for the seventeenth film GoldenEye, with Irish actor Pierce Brosnan playing the part of Bond,http://www.mi6.co.uk/sections/movies/ge.php3 GoldenEye (1995) MI6 19 January 2011 16 November 2008 https://web.archive.org/web/20081116042117/http://www.mi6.co.uk/sections/movies/ge.php3 usurped filmed at the newly created Leavesden Studios. 28 November – Budget: Chancellor Kenneth Clarke cuts the basic level of income tax to 24p in the pound. 30 November – President of the United States Bill Clinton visits Northern Ireland.http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/30/newsid_4459000/4459860.stm 1995: Clinton kindles hope in Northern Ireland BBC News 30 January 2008 30 November 1995 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307140448/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/30/newsid_4459000/4459860.stm 7 March 2008 live December 2 December – "Rogue trader" Nick Leeson is jailed for six-and-a-half years in Singapore on a double fraud charge relating to the recent financial collapse of Barings Bank.http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/2/newsid_2518000/2518423.stm 1995: Rogue trader jailed for six years BBC News 30 January 2008 2 December 1995 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307140431/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/2/newsid_2518000/2518423.stm 7 March 2008 live 8 December – Head teacher Philip Lawrence dies after being stabbed at the entrance of his school in Maida Vale, North London, where he was defending a pupil from a local teenage gang. 10 December – Joseph Rotblat wins the Nobel Peace Prize.http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1995/ The Nobel Peace Prize 1995 30 January 2008 13 December – A riot takes place in Brixton, London. 20 December – The Queen writes to the Prince and Princess of Wales (Charles and Diana) three years after their separation, urging them to divorce as soon as possible.http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/20/newsid_2538000/2538985.stm 1995: 'Divorce': Queen to Charles and Diana BBC News 30 January 2008 20 December 1995 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307140359/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/20/newsid_2538000/2538985.stm 7 March 2008 live 29 December – The Conservative majority now stands at a mere five seats following the defection of MP Emma Nicholson to the Liberal Democrats.British Election Panel Study, 1992–97 http://www.crest.ox.ac.uk/beps9297.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20010216200828/http://www.crest.ox.ac.uk/beps9297.htm dead 16 February 2001 Centre for Research into Elections and Social Trends 15 February 2012 30 December – Altnaharra in the Scottish Highlands matches the lowest temperature UK Weather Record at −27.2 °C (−17.0 °F). Undated Contingent fee litigation permitted in the Courts of England and Wales.Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (section 58). 1% of the UK population (some 600,000 people) now have internet access.February 2016 Publications Martin Amis's novel The Information. Iain Banks' novel Whit. Pat Barker's novel The Ghost Road. Nick Hornby's novel High Fidelity. Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel Maskerade. Philip Pullman's novel Northern Lights, first in the His Dark Materials trilogy. Delia Smith's cookery Winter Collection. Barry Unsworth's novel Morality Play. Births January January – Kane Haysman, footballer 1 January – Adam Campbell, footballer 5 January – Tom John, footballer 4 January – Adam Webster, footballer 7 January – Jessica Judd, runner 8 January Kyle Edmund, South Africa-born tennis player Stephen Hendrie, footballer Romello Nangle, footballer 13 January Steven Brisbane, footballer Eros Vlahos, actor Eros Vlahos Eros_V 290393746036637697 13 January 2013 Yay, happy 18th birthday me! 9 February 2013 16 January – Sam Long, footballer 18 January – Tommy O'Sullivan, footballer 20 January – Calum Chambers, footballer 23 January – Clifford Newby-Harris, footballer 25 January – Joel Logan, footballer 26 January – Lewis Small, footballer 28 January – Mimi-Isabella Cesar, rhythmic gymnastProfile of Mimi-Isabella Cesar https://results.gc2018.com/en/rhythmic-gymnastics/athlete-profile-n6032189-mimi-isabella-cesar.htm Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games Corporation 2018 9 December 2020 live https://web.archive.org/web/20201209091655/https://results.gc2018.com/en/rhythmic-gymnastics/athlete-profile-n6032189-mimi-isabella-cesar.htm 9 December 2020 29 January – Germain Burton, cyclist 30 January – Jack Laugher, diver February 1 February – Richard Wisker, actor 2 February – Paul Digby, footballer 6 February Jasper Johns, footballer Jack Shore, mixed martial artist 7 February Ashleigh Butler, dog trainer Tom Glynn-Carney, actor 10 February – Harry Finch, cricketer 11 February – Luke Humphries, darts player 12 February – Reece Hales, footballer 13 February Alex Mowatt, footballer Connor Waldon, footballer Craig Watson, footballer 18 February Mitchell Oxborrow, footballer Kimberley Reed, athlete 19 February Ryan Finnie, footballer Dylan McLaughlin, footballer 23 February – Rory Elrick, actor 24 February – Jacob Murphy, footballer 26 February – Liam Fairhurst, charity fundraiser (died 2009) March 1 March – Danny Mullen, footballer 2 March – Joe Hanks, footballer 4 March – Bill Milner, actor 12 March – Forrayah Bass, footballer 20 March – Harry Lee, footballer 22 March – Dafydd Howells, rugby union player 27 March – Olivia Fergusson, footballer 29 March – Joshua Sinclair-Evans, actor 30 March – Tao Geoghegan Hart, road racing cyclist April 9 April – Coll Donaldson, footballer 11 April – Siobhan Cattigan, rugby union player (died 2021)Siobhan Cattigan: Scottish rugby player dies aged 26 12 April – Harry Middleton, footballer 14 April – Alan Frizzell, footballer 15 April – Nick Awford, footballer 16 April Poppy Lee Friar, actresshttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1531157/Who-are-they.html Who are they? Telegraph 11 October 2006 29 October 2018 Josh Meade, footballer Ross M. Stewart, footballer 17 April – Will Hughes, footballer 21 April – Josh Adams, rugby union player 23 April Callum O'Dowda, footballer Kelly Simm, gymnast 25 April – Lewis Hornby, footballer 30 April – Drey Wright, footballer May 4 May – Alex Lawther, actor 5 May – Gen Kitchen, politician 9 May – Beth Mead, footballer 14 May – Fox Jackson-Keen, actor, dancer and singer 18 May – Craig Sibbald, footballer 20 May – Brandon Zibaka, footballer 24 May – Prince Joseph Wenzel of Liechtenstein 25 May – Jamie Allen, footballer 30 May – Jonah Hauer-King, actor June June – Arran Fernandez, mathematician 1 June – Charlotte Jordan, actor 5 June Beckii Cruel, dancer and singer Ross Wilson, tennis player 8 June Bessie Cursons, actress Tom Grennan, singer 12 June – Hannah Starling, diver 16 June Jake Dennis, racing driver Oliver Lines, snooker player 17 June – Richie Fallows, squash player 20 June – Behzinga, YouTuber 22 June – Jack Lynch, footballer 23 June – Lauren Aquilina, singer–songwriter 29 June – Tyler Harvey, footballer 30 June – Declan John, footballer July 5 July – Baily Cargill, footballer 7 July – Cameron Dawson, footballer 9 July – Georgie Henley, actress 12 July – Luke Shaw, footballer 15 July Matt Grimes, footballer Joseph N'Guessan, footballer 16 July – Kortney Hause, footballer 23 July – Faryl Smith, singer 26 July Holly Bodimeade, actress Darren Petrie, footballer 28 July – Ben Watton, actor August 2 August – Vikkstar123, YouTuber 4 August – Chris Sutherland, footballer 5 August – Leo Chambers, footballer 11 August – Ben Davies, footballer 17 August – Alex Skeel, football coach and domestic violence survivorhttps://www.bedfordtoday.co.uk/news/miracle-lineker-baby-alex-becomes-domestic-abuse-ambassador-1-8518698 Miracle 'Lineker baby' Alex becomes domestic abuse ambassador www.bedfordtoday.co.uk June 2018 22 August – Dua Lipa, singer and songwriter 23 August – Cameron Norrie, tennis player 24 August Cammy Smith, Scottish footballer Lady Amelia Windsor, fashion model and royal 29 August – Shaquille Hunter, footballer 31 August – Ceallach Spellman, actor September 1 September – Dannielle Khan, cyclist 5 September – Dominic Sibley, cricketer 7 September – George Williams, footballer 10 September – Jack Grealish, footballer 13 September – Robbie Kay, actor 20 September Kirsty Howard, charity fundraiser (died 2015) Rob Holding, footballer 24 September – Conor McGrandles, footballer 26 September Chloe Burrows, media personality Hayley Jones, racing cyclist 27 September – Ryan Haynes, footballer 30 September – Harry Stott, actor October 5 October – Diego De Girolamo, footballer 7 October – Dion Charles, footballer 12 October – Jordan Howe, athlete 28 October – Wesley Burns, footballer November 1 November – Nick D'Aloisio, Australia-born entrepreneur, computer programmer and designer 6 November – Bradley Tarbuck, footballer 9 November – Finn Cole, actor 13 November – Lucy Fallon, actress 16 November – Rolando Aarons, footballer 22 November – Declan McDaid, footballer 28 November Emily Benham, mountain bike orienteering champion Libby Rees, author 29 November – Siobhan-Marie O'Connor, swimmer December 2 December – Kalvin Phillips, footballer 4 December – Dina Asher-Smith, sprinter 7 December – Jaanai Gordon, footballer 8 December – Jordon Ibe, footballer 12 December – Mark O'Hara, footballer 16 December – Ryan Gauld, footballer 19 December – Elliot Evans, singer 27 December – Laurence Belcher, actor 30 December – Ollie Watkins, footballer Full date unknown Tex Jacks, actor Joshua Pascoe, actor Deaths January thumb|135px|Peter Cook thumb|135px|Gerald Durrell 1 January – Fred West, serial killer (born 1941) (suicide by hanging while in custody)Fred West: Who was he and what did he do? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-57146895 BBC News 9 January 2022 19 May 2021 2 January – Henry Graham Sharp, figure skater (born 1917) 4 January – Robert Latham, editor and scholar (born 1912) 5 January – Somerset de Chair, author, politician and poet (born 1911) 7 January Harry Golombek, chess grandmaster (born 1911) Larry Grayson, comedian and gameshow host (born 1923) 9 January – Peter Cook, comedy actor, satirist, writer and comedian (born 1937) 11 January John Gere, art historian (born 1921) Peter Pratt, opera singer (born 1923) 13 January Richard Causton, businessman and author on Buddhism (born 1920) David Looker, bobsledder (born 1913) Mervyn Stockwood, clergyman and former Bishop of Southwark (born 1913) 14 January Mark Finch, cinema promoter (born 1961); suicide Sir Alexander Gibson, conductor (born 1926) Stafford Somerfield, newspaper editor (born 1911) 17 January – Evadne Baker, actress (born 1937, South Africa) 18 January – Joseph Kagan, Baron Kagan, industrialist (born 1915, Russian Empire) 19 January – John Pearson, 3rd Viscount Cowdray, peer and polo player (born 1910) 21 January – Kenneth Budd, mural artist (born 1925) 22 January Stuart Davies, aerospace engineer (born 1908) Christopher Palmer, composer (born 1946) 26 January Louis Heren, journalist (born 1919) Alaric Jacob, writer and journalist (born 1909) 29 January – Dickie Burnell, rower (born 1917) 30 January – Gerald Durrell, naturalist, zookeeper, author and television presenter (born 1925 in British India) February thumb|135px|Fred Perry 1 February – Jill Phipps, animal rights activist (born 1964); crushed by lorry 2 February David Kindersley, typeface designer (born 1915) Fred Perry, tennis player and three times Wimbledon champion (born 1909) Donald Pleasence, actor (born 1919) 4 February David Alexander, singer (born 1938) Godfrey Brown, Olympic athlete (born 1915) 5 February Jimmy Allen, footballer and football manager (born 1909) Frank Costin, automotive engineer (born 1920) Frederick Riddle, violist (born 1912) 7 February – Helen Wallis, map curator at the British Museum (born 1924) 8 February – Rachel Thomas, Welsh actress (born 1909) 12 February – Robert Bolt, writer (born 1924) 14 February Roger de Grey, artist and president of the Royal Academy (1984–1993) (born 1918) Nigel Finch, film director and filmmaker (born 1949) 15 February Seymour Berry, 2nd Viscount Camrose, peer, politician and newspaper proprietor (born 1909) Francis Taylor, Baron Taylor of Hadfield, businessman, founder of Taylor Woodrow (born 1905) 17 February – Thelma Hulbert, artist (born 1913) 18 February – Denny Cordell, record producer (born 1943) 19 February – Nicholas Fairbairn, Scottish politician (born 1933) 22 February – Nicholas Pennell, actor (born 1938) 23 February James Herriot, veterinary surgeon and writer (born 1916) Norman Hunter, writer (born 1899) 25 February – Terence Weil, cellist (born 1921) 26 February – Jack Clayton, film director (born 1921) 28 February – Walter Allen, literary critic and novelist (born 1911) March 135px|thumb|Marguerite Kelsey 135px|thumb|Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat and his wife 2 March – Vivian MacKerrell, actor (born 1944) 5 March Marguerite Kelsey, artist's model (born 1909) Vivian Stanshall, singer-songwriter, musician and poet (born 1943); accidentally killed 7 March – Ivan Craig, Scottish actor (born 1912) 11 March James Scott-Hopkins, politician (born 1921) Myfanwy Talog, Welsh actress (born 1944) 15 March – Fred Mulley, politician, lawyer and economist (born 1918) 16 March – Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat, Scottish peer and World War II Commando (born 1911) 17 March Donald Baverstock, television producer (born 1924) Ronnie Kray, jailed crime leader (born 1933) 18 March – Hugh Kelsey, writer on bridge (born 1926) 20 March – Sir James Kilfedder, Northern Irish politician (born 1928) 21 March – Robert Urquhart, actor (born 1922) 22 March – Peter Woods, journalist (born 1930) 23 March Alan Barton, singer (Black Lace) (born 1953); accidentally killed Davie Cooper, footballer (born 1956) 24 March – Joseph Needham, biochemist, science historian and sinologist (born 1900) 25 March James Gardner, designer (born 1907) Stuart Milner-Barry, chess player and World War II codebreaker (born 1906) 29 March – John Terry, film financier (born 1913) April 1 April – Dame Lucie Rie, ceramicist (born 1902, Austria-Hungary) 3 April – David Herbert, socialite and writer (born 1908) 4 April Richard Adrian, 2nd Baron Adrian, peer and psychologist (born 1927) Kenny Everett, comic broadcast presenter (born 1944) (AIDS-related) 6 April – Trevor Park, lecturer and politician (born 1927) 7 April Peter Brinson, writer and lecturer on dance (born 1920) Nicholas Ingram, first British citizen to be executed by the electric chair in the United States (born c. 1964) 10 April – Glyn Jones, Welsh writer (born 1905) 12 April Constance Heaven, romance writer (born 1911) Chris Pyne, jazz trombonist, brother of Mick Pyne (born 1939) 14 April – Michael Fordham, psychologist (born 1909) 16 April – Arthur English, actor and comedian (born 1919) 19 April – Neil Paterson, author (born 1915) 20 April – Bob Wyatt, former cricketer (born 1901) 21 April – Tessie O'Shea, singer and actress (born 1913) 26 April Hugh Morton, Baron Morton of Shuna, lawyer and politician (born 1930) Peter Wright, scientist and MI5 intelligence officer (born 1916) 27 April – Albert Brown, cricketer and snooker player (born 1911) 28 April – Walter Tracy, type designer, typographer and writer (born 1914) 30 April – Michael Graham Cox, actor (born 1938) May thumb|135px|Sir Anthony Wagner thumb|135px|Harold Wilson 2 May – Sir Michael Hordern, actor (born 1911) 5 May Alastair Pilkington, engineer and businessman, inventor of the float glass process (born 1920) Sir Anthony Wagner, herald and Clarenceux King of Arms (born 1908) 7 May Katharine Banham, psychologist (born 1897) Ray Buckton, trade unionist (born 1922) 10 May – Harold Berens, actor and comedian (born 1903) 11 May – John Phillips, actor (born 1914) 12 May – Arnold Goodman, Baron Goodman, lawyer and political advisor (born 1913) 14 May – Jessy Blackburn, aviation pioneer (born 1894) 15 May – Eric Porter, actor (born 1928) 16 May – Raymond Lyttleton, mathematician and theoretical astronomer (born 1911) 17 May – Geoffrey Dickens, politician (born 1931) 18 May – Robert Harris, actor (born 1900) 22 May – Robert Flemyng, actor (born 1912) 23 May Mick Pyne, jazz pianist, brother of Chris Pyne (born 1940) Geoffrey Waldegrave, 12th Earl Waldegrave, peer (born 1905) 24 May – Harold Wilson, politician, Prime Minister (1964–70 & 1974–76) (born 1916) 25 May – Jack Allen, actor (born 1907) 28 May Helen Ballard, horticulturalist (born 1908) Jean Muir, fashion designer (born 1928) 29 May – Sir Archibald Russell, aerospace engineer (born 1904) 30 May Ted Drake, footballer and football manager (born 1912) Lofty England, engineer and motor company manager (born 1911) Philip Sherrard, author and translator (born 1922) 31 May – Roy Beddington, painter, illustrator, poet, writer on fishing, and journalist (born 1910) June 135px|thumb|Peter Townsend 1 June – Colin Ronan, author and science historian (born 1920) 3 June – Dilys Powell, film critic and travel writer (born 1901) 9 June – Frank Chacksfield, musician and orchestral conductor (born 1914) 10 June – Bruno Lawrence, British-born New Zealand actor (born 1941) 15 June – Charles Bennett, screenwriter (born 1899) 17 June – David Ennals, Baron Ennals, politician and human rights activist (born 1922) 18 June – Arthur Howard, actor (born 1910) 19 June Murray Dickie, opera singer (born 1924) Richard Pape, writer and World War II escapee (born 1916) Peter Townsend, RAF officer and lover of Princess Margaret (born 1914) 21 June – Tristan Jones, sailor and author (born 1929) 26 June – Edgar Williams, Army officer and historian (born 1912) 28 June – Donald Sinclair, veterinary surgeon (born 1911); suicide 29 June – Noel Dyson, actress (born 1916) July thumb|135px|Sir Hugh Dundas thumb|135px|Harold Larwood 2 July Gervase Jackson-Stops, architectural historian and journalist (born 1947) Geraint Morgan, lawyer and politician (born 1920) 3 July – Bert Hardy, photographer (born 1913) 7 July – Geoffrey Freeman Allen, railway writer (born 1922) 8 July – Dorothy Stanley-Turner, racing driver (born 1916) 9 July – Vera Thomas, table tennis player (born 1920) 10 July – Sir Hugh Dundas, World War II fighter pilot and television executive (born 1920) 12 July Michael Clegg, naturalist and television presenter (born 1933) Gordon Flemyng, television and film director (born 1934) Sean Mayes, pianist and writer (born 1945) John Yudkin, psychologist and nutritionist (born 1910) 13 July Sir Varyl Begg, Royal Navy admiral (born 1908) Peter Morrison, politician (born 1944) 16 July – Stephen Spender, poet and writer (born 1909) 19 July Michael Andrews, artist (born 1928) Sydney Lipton, dance band leader (born 1906)Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. 21 July – Elleston Trevor, novelist and playwright (born 1920) 22 July Daniel Dixon, 2nd Baron Glentoran, Northern Irish soldier and politician (born 1912) Harold Larwood, fast bowler (cricket) (born 1904) 24 July Jerry Lordan, singer-songwriter (born 1934) George Rodger, photojournalist (born 1908) 25 July – Janice Elliott, novelist and journalist (born 1931) 28 July – Susie Cooper, ceramicist (born 1902) 30 July – Harry L. Shorto, linguist (born 1919) August thumb|135px|Ida Lupino thumb|135px|Harry Broadhurst 2 August – Thomas Brimelow, Baron Brimelow, diplomat (born 1915) 3 August Ida Lupino, actress and director (born 1914) Alan Mitchell, dendrologist (born 1922) 5 August – Mark Colton, racing driver (born 1961); killed while racing 6 August – Harold Lever, Baron Lever of Manchester, lawyer and politician (born 1914) 7 August Brigid Brophy, novelist (born 1929) Dursley McLinden, actor (born 1965 in the Isle of Man) (AIDS-related)https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-dursley-mclinden-1595834.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-dursley-mclinden-1595834.html 1 May 2022 subscription live Obituary: Dursley McLinden The Independent 1995-08-12 2011-01-16 London Derek Granger 10 August – Peter Williams, dance critic (born 1914) 11 August – Herbert Sumsion, organist (born 1899) 12 August – Raymond Sandover, British Brigadier who served in the Australian Army (born 1910) 13 August – Alison Hargreaves, mountain climber (born 1962); died while descending 15 August – Humphrey Moore, pacifist and journalist (born 1909) 17 August Marjorie Sykes, educator and peace activist (born 1905) David Warrilow, actor (born 1934) 19 August – Johnny Carey, footballer and football manager (born 1919) 21 August – Anatole Fistoulari, orchestral conductor (born 1907, Russian Empire) 23 August – Arthur Holt, politician (born 1914) 24 August – Jason McRoy, mountain bike racer (born 1971); road accident 25 August – John Brunner, science fiction writer (born 1934) 27 August – Carl Giles, cartoonist (born 1916) 29 August – Harry Broadhurst, World War II air ace (born 1905) 31 August – David Farrar, actor (born 1908) September 3 September – Mary Adshead, painter, illustrator and designer (born 1904) 5 September – Francis Showering, brewer, founder of Babycham (born 1912) 8 September – Peter Baxandall, audio engineer and electronics engineer (born 1921) 9 September – Ida Carroll, musician and composer (born 1905) 10 September – Derek Meddings, special effects designer (born 1931) 11 September – Kieth O'dor, motor racing driver (born 1962); killed while racing 12 September Jeremy Brett, actor (born 1933) Tom Helmore, actor (born 1904) 14 September – A. E. Wilder-Smith, organic chemist (born 1915) 16 September – Michael Balfour, historian and civil servant (born 1908) 17 September – Catherine Cobb, jeweller (born 1903) 18 September – Donald Davie, poet and literary critic (born 1922) 19 September – Sir Rudolf Peierls, physicist (born 1907, German Empire) 20 September – Monica Maurice, industrialist (born 1908) 21 September – William Murray, educationist (born 1912) 25 September – Dave Bowen, footballer and football manager (born 1928) 26 September – Lynette Roberts, poet and novelist (born 1909) 28 September – Albert Johanneson, South African born, British based footballer (born 1940) 29 September Alfred Felix Landon Beeston, Orientalist (born 1911) Susan Fleetwood, actress (born 1944) 30 September – Frederick Warner, diplomat (born 1918) October thumb|135px|Alec Douglas-Home thumb|135px|Edith Pargeter thumb|135px|Alan Bush 1 October – Rene Cloke, artist (born 1904) 2 October – Elizabeth Jane Lloyd, artist and art teacher (born 1928) 5 October – Arthur Barbosa, artist (born 1908) 6 October – Anthony Newlands, actor (born 1925) 8 October John Cairncross, Scottish-born public servant, spy for the Soviet Union, academic and writer (born 1913) Sir Geoffrey Warnock, philosopher (born 1923) 9 October – Alec Douglas-Home, politician, Prime Minister (1963–64) (born 1903) 12 October – Gary Bond, actor and singer (born 1940) 14 October – Edith Pargeter, writer (born 1913) 16 October – Richard Caldicot, actor (born 1908) 18 October Bryan Johnson, actor and singer (born 1926) Ted Whiteaway, racing driver (born 1928) 20 October – Eric Birley, archaeologist and historian (born 1908) 22 October Kingsley Amis, writer (born 1922) Ralph Whitlock, farmer, conservationist and author (born 1914) 23 October – Gavin Ewart, poet (born 1916) 24 October Marion Adnams, painter, printmaker and draughtswoman (born 1898) Ronnie Selby Wright, Church of Scotland minister (born 1908) 30 October Brian Easdale, composer (born 1909) Paul Ferris, composer (born 1941); suicide 31 October Alan Bush, composer, pianist and conductor (born 1900) Derek Enright, politician (born 1935) Henry Percy, 11th Duke of Northumberland, peer (born 1953) November 135px|thumb|Peter Grant 1 November Bill Hudson, Army officer in World War II (born 1910) Desmond Shawe-Taylor, music critic (born 1907) 3 November Wallas Eaton, actor (born 1917) John Orchard, actor (born 1928) 4 November Marti Caine, comedian and actress (born 1945) Paul Eddington, actor (born 1927) 7 November Andrea Adams, journalist and broadcaster (born 1946) Felicity Winifred Carter, author and playwright (born 1906) 9 November – F. G. Emmison, archivist and historian (born 1907) 12 November – Sir Robert Stephens, actor (born 1931) 14 November – Jack Holt, boat designer (born 1906) 15 November – Billy Hughes, educationist and politician (born 1914) 16 November Leah Betts, high-profile victim of the drug ecstasy (born 1977) Gwyn A. Williams, historian (born 1925) 18 November John G. Collier, chemical engineer (born 1935) Miron Grindea, literary journalist (born 1909, Romania) 20 November – Robin Gandy, mathematician (born 1919) 21 November Peter Grant, manager of the band Led Zeppelin (born 1935) Wilfred White, equestrian (born 1904) 22 November – Edna Deane, dancer and choreographer (born 1905) 24 November Malcolm Munthe, soldier, writer and curator (born 1910) Leslie O'Brien, Baron O'Brien of Lothbury, banker, Governor of the Bank of England (1966–1973) (born 1908) 25 November – Alan Nicholls, English football goalkeeper (born 1973) 26 November Sydney D. Bailey, author and pacifist (born 1916) Charles Warrell, teacher and creator of the I-Spy books (born 1889) December 135px|thumb|James Meade 135px|thumb|Patric Knowles 3 December – Jimmy Jewel, actor (born 1909) 5 December Charles Evans, mountaineer (born 1918) Keith Runcorn, geophysicist (born 1922) 6 December – Trevor Key, photographer (born 1947) 7 December James Derek Birchall, chemist (born 1930); road accident Kathleen Harrison, actress (born 1892) 8 December – Philip Lawrence, school headteacher (born 1947); murdered 9 December Hugh Clegg, academic (born 1920) Benny Lee, actor (born 1916) Gillian Rose, philosopher and author (born 1947) 10 December Sir Godfrey Agnew, civil servant (born 1913) Mary Lascelles, literary scholar (born 1900) Lavinia Fitzalan-Howard, Duchess of Norfolk, noblewoman (born 1916) 11 December – Arthur Mullard, actor and singer (born 1910) 12 December – Sir David Lightbown, politician (born 1932) 14 December – Constance Tipper, metallurgist and crystallographer (born 1894) 17 December – Peter Warlock, magician (born 1904) 18 December – Brian Brockless, organist and composer (born 1926) 20 December – John Jacques, Baron Jacques, businessman and politician (born 1905) 21 December – Trenchard Cox, museum director (born 1905) 22 December David Land, impresario and theatre producer (born 1918) James Meade, economist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1907) 23 December – Patric Knowles, actor (born 1911) 27 December – Jeremy John Beadle, critic, writer and broadcaster (born 1956) 29 December – Harold Collison, Baron Collison, trade unionist (born 1909) 31 December – David Anderson, politician, lawyer and judge (born 1916) See also 1995 in British music 1995 in British television List of British films of 1995 References 1995 Category:Years of the 20th century in the United Kingdom United Kingdom