2001 in the United Kingdom

none August 2022 April 2013 2001 Countries of the United Kingdom England Northern Ireland Scotland Wales Popular culture 2001 British Grand Prix 2001 English cricket season Football: England Scotland Wales 2001 in British television 2001 in British music 2001 in British radio UK in the Eurovision Song Contest 2001 Events from the year 2001 in the United Kingdom. The year was dominated by the foot-and-mouth crisis. Incumbents Monarch – Elizabeth II Prime Minister – Tony Blair (Labour) Events January 5 January – A report by the Department of Health suggests that Dr Harold Shipman, convicted of 15 murders a year ago, may have killed more than 300 patients since the 1970s. 8 January The High Court rules that the identities and whereabouts of the two killers of James Bulger are to be kept secret for the rest of their lives. Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, both now aged 18, are expected to be released from custody later this year.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/8/newsid_2515000/2515671.stm 2001: Bulger killers win anonymity for life 20 March 2009 8 January 2001 BBC News https://web.archive.org/web/20090218221033/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/8/newsid_2515000/2515671.stm 18 February 2009 live Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 2000 comes into effect, reducing the age of consent for male homosexual sexual acts to that for heterosexual and lesbian acts, sixteen (seventeen in Northern Ireland). 9 January – Sven-Göran Eriksson begins his job as manager of the England football team six months ahead of schedule, having resigned from his previous job as Lazio manager. He had signed a five-year contract with The Football Association on 30 October 2000 to succeed Kevin Keegan. 12 January – Marie Therese Kouao and Carl Manning are sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Kouao's niece Victoria Climbié, who died in 2000 after suffering horrific abuse and neglect at the hands of the couple in their London home. Victoria (aged eight) had been living with the pair since her parents sent her to England to receive a good education.Metro McGuinness Ross 16 March 2009 30, 31 24 January – Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Peter Mandelson resigns from the cabinet for the second time.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/24/newsid_4605000/4605234.stm Mandelson resigns – again 13 February 2008 24 January 2001 BBC News https://web.archive.org/web/20080127161857/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/24/newsid_4605000/4605234.stm 27 January 2008 live 25 January – After briefly slipping behind the Conservatives in an opinion poll four months ago, Labour are looking all set for victory in the forthcoming general election as they score 49% in the latest MORI poll and open up a 20-point lead over their rivals.https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8280050.stm Poll tracker: Interactive guide to the opinion polls BBC News 7 September 2010 29 September 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20100803072900/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8280050.stm 3 August 2010 live 31 January – The Scottish Court in the Netherlands convicts a Libyan and acquits another for their part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 which crashed in Lockerbie in 1988. Al Amin Khalifah Fhimah (aged 44) is cleared, but Abdelbaset Ali Mohamed Al Megrahi is found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment with a recommended minimum term of 20 years.https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/1147243.stm BBC News Lockerbie Libyan heads for freedom 31 January 2001 18 September 2010 February 19 February – Foot and mouth crisis begins.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/19/newsid_4145000/4145501.stm Foot-and-mouth scare at UK abbatoir [sic] 13 February 2008 19 February 2001 BBC News https://web.archive.org/web/20080307115028/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/19/newsid_4145000/4145501.stm 7 March 2008 live 21 February – A bomb disguised as a hand-held torch explodes outside a Territorial Army barracks in Shepherd's Bush, seriously injuring a 14-year-old cadet who picked it up.TA blast was deliberate attack https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1183106.stm BBC News 11 September 2023 22 February 2001 25 February – Liverpool beat Birmingham City on penalties after a 1–1 draw in the Football League Cup final – the first cup final to be played at Millennium Stadium, Cardiff, since Wembley closed for redevelopment. 28 February – A rail crash near Selby kills 10 people.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/28/newsid_4184000/4184713.stm At least 10 die in Selby rail crash 13 February 2008 28 February 2001 BBC News https://web.archive.org/web/20080208190044/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/28/newsid_4184000/4184713.stm 8 February 2008 live March 4 March – A car bomb explodes outside the BBC's main news centre at White City, west London, seriously injuring a London Underground worker. The Real IRA are suspected of being behind the attack.Bomb blast outside BBC https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1200999.stm BBC News 11 September 2023 4 March 2001 8 March – The wreckage of Donald Campbell's speedboat Bluebird K7 is raised from the bottom of Coniston Water in Cumbria, 34 years after Campbell was killed in an attempt to break the world water speed record. 15 March – Donald Campbell's body is recovered from Lake Coniston, 34 years after he died in an attempt to break the land water speed record. 17 March – Eden Project opens to the public near St Austell, Cornwall; conceived by Tim Smit with design by Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners. 18 March – Claire Marsh (aged 18) becomes the youngest woman in Britain to be convicted of rape after pinning down a woman who was raped by a pair of teenagers in west London. She is sentenced to seven years in prison, while her accomplices (aged 15 and 18) are jailed for five years.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/16/newsid_2521000/2521053.stm BBC On This Day | 16 | 2001: Teenage woman guilty of rape BBC News 16 March 1988 7 September 2010 31 March – Stuart Lubbock, a meat-factory worker from Harlow in Essex, dies under suspicious circumstances at the home of television presenter Michael Barrymore. April 5 April – Perry Wacker, a Dutch lorry driver, is jailed for 14 years for the manslaughter of 58 Chinese illegal immigrants who were found suffocated in his lorry at Dover ferry port in June last year.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/5/newsid_2467000/2467923.stm BBC On This Day | 5 | 2001: Driver jailed for immigrant deaths BBC News 5 April 1986 7 September 2010 15 April – Manchester United win the FA Premier League title for the third season in succession, and the seventh time in nine seasons.https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/gunners-hand-the-title-to-united-753448.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/gunners-hand-the-title-to-united-753448.html 1 May 2022 subscription live London The Independent Nick Townsend Gunners hand the title to United 15 April 2001 1 October 2010 August 2021 medicmedic 23 April Jane Andrews, a former personal assistant to Sarah, Duchess of York, goes on trial accused of murdering her fiancé Thomas Cressman. Manchester United pay a British record fee of £19million for Ruud van Nistelrooy, the 24-year-old PSV Eindhoven and Netherlands national football team striker who had been due to join the club last year until the transfer was put on hold by injury.https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/m/man_utd/1292248.stm BBC News Man Utd clinch Van Nistelrooy deal 23 April 2001 1 October 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20071007144855/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/m/man_utd/1292248.stm 7 October 2007 live 29 April – Census of population in the United Kingdom. May 1 May – An anti-capitalist demonstration in London, part of worldwide protests, turns violent.Williams Hywel Cassell's Chronology of World History https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will registration London Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 0-304-35730-8 650–652 4 May – The government relaxes its sanctions designed to tackle the foot and mouth crisis after more than two months.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/5/newsid_2511000/2511131.stm BBC On This Day | 5 | 2001: Sun shines on foot-and-mouth crisis BBC News 5 May 1980 7 September 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20100914132556/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/5/newsid_2511000/2511131.stm 14 September 2010 live 11 May – House of Commons (Removal of Clergy Disqualification) Act 2001 removes disqualifications for clergy in standing for election as members of parliament and other elected bodies. 12 May – Liverpool win the FA Cup Final when two Michael Owen goals in the final minutes of the game give them a 2–1 win over Arsenal in the final at the Millennium Stadium.https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/fa_cup/1324699.stm BBC News Owen shatters Arsenal in Cup final 12 May 2001 1 October 2010 13 May – The family of Mahmood Mattan, hanged in 1952 following his wrongful conviction for the murder of Lily Volpert, are awarded £1.4m in compensation by the Home Office, the first time the family of someone wrongfully hanged in the UK have received compensation.Jamie Wilson https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/may/14/jamiewilson £1.4m award for family of wrongfully hanged man The Guardian 14 May 2001 4 August 2023 15 May – Medication prices fall as a result of a court ruling which puts an end to the drug industry's price-fixing policies.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/15/newsid_2511000/2511177.stm BBC On This Day | 15 | 2001: UK supermarkets slash price of drugs BBC News 15 May 1957 7 September 2010 16 May Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott punches a protester who threw an egg at him in Rhyl.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/16/newsid_4098000/4098929.stm Prescott punches protester 13 February 2008 16 May 2001 BBC News https://web.archive.org/web/20080307114855/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/16/newsid_4098000/4098929.stm 7 March 2008 live Jane Andrews is sentenced to life imprisonment after being found guilty of murdering Thomas Cressman.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/23/newsid_4444000/4444991.stm 2001: Royal aide on trial for murder 20 March 2009 23 April 2001 BBC News https://web.archive.org/web/20090428221548/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/23/newsid_4444000/4444991.stm 28 April 2009 live Liverpool win the UEFA Cup – their first European trophy for 17 years – with a 5–4 win over Spanish side Deportivo Alavés.https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/uefa_cup/1335132.stm BBC News Champagne on ice 17 May 2001 1 October 2010 23 May – The first C-17 Globemaster III to serve with the Royal Air Force arrives in the UK at RAF Brize Norton in OxfordshireRoyal Air Force https://www.raf.mod.uk/ 20 June 2021 Royal Air Force-gb 24 May – At Bristol Crown Court, Lee Ford is sentenced to five terms of life imprisonment after pleading guilty to the murders of his wife and four stepchildren at their home in Carnkie, near Redruth, Cornwall, in September 2000.https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1348982.stm Family killer gets life 24 May 2001 17 August 2024 BBC News BBC June 1 June – Official opening of Cardiff Bay Barrage.http://www.cardiffharbour.com/content.asp?nav=5,24&parent_directory_id=1 Cardiff Bay Barrage Cardiff Harbour Authority 2010 25 January 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20110708121110/http://www.cardiffharbour.com/content.asp?nav=5,24&parent_directory_id=1 8 July 2011 dead 7 June – General Election: Labour Party attains a second successive landslide election victory. Among the new entrants to parliament is 34-year-old future Conservative prime minister David Cameron, who retains the Witney seat in Oxfordshire for the Conservative Party.http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/david-cameron/25752 Rt Hon David Cameron Parliament of the United Kingdom https://web.archive.org/web/20111127133726/http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/david-cameron/25752 27 November 2011 Amongst the retiring members is Edward Heath, the former Conservative prime minister, who at the age of eighty-four, was the oldest member of the last parliament and also its longest-serving continuous member having served since the 1950 election.https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/988707.stm BBC News Sir Edward Heath to stand down 24 October 2000 23 December 2010 This is the first election to have been held under the regulation of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000. Voter turnout at 59.4% is the lowest since the introduction of universal suffrage. Voter turnout in general elections D. Clark 2 February 2024 https://www.statista.com/statistics/1050929/voter-turnout-in-the-uk/ Statista 16 February 2024 8 June – William Hague announces his resignation as Conservative Party leader after four years. 17 June – Cardinal Winning, head of the Roman Catholic church in Scotland, dies of a heart attack aged seventy-six in Glasgow.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/17/newsid_2514000/2514713.stm 2001: Catholic leader Cardinal Winning dies 20 March 2009 17 June 2001 BBC News 22 June – Home Secretary David Blunkett announces that Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, convicted at the age of eleven of murdering toddler James Bulger on Merseyside, are to be released on life licence later this year after the Parole board recommended their release after eight years in custody.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/22/newsid_2518000/2518521.stm BBC On This Day | 22 | 2001: Bulger killers to be released BBC News 22 June 1941 7 September 2010 25 June – A race riot breaks out in Burnley, with more than 200 White and Asian youths being involved in brawling, vandalism and arson.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/25/newsid_2519000/2519285.stm Race violence erupts in Burnley 13 February 2008 25 June 2001 BBC News https://web.archive.org/web/20080307115134/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/25/newsid_2519000/2519285.stm 7 March 2008 live 29 June – The government announces plans to build a £3,000,000 fountain in memory of Diana, Princess of Wales at Hyde Park, London.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/29/newsid_2520000/2520975.stm 2001: Diana fountain given go-ahead 20 March 2009 29 June 2001 BBC News https://web.archive.org/web/20090210151923/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/29/newsid_2520000/2520975.stm 10 February 2009 live July July – MG Rover launches a new range of MG-badged performance variants of its Rover family cars. 2 July – Barry George is sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of the television presenter Jill Dando, who was killed in Fulham, London, on 26 April 1999.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/2/newsid_2489000/2489795.stm Dando killer jailed for life 13 February 2008 2 July 2001 BBC News https://web.archive.org/web/20080307114946/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/2/newsid_2489000/2489795.stm 7 March 2008 live George is acquitted at a retrial in 2008. 7 July – Race riots in Bradford, West Yorkshire.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/7/newsid_2496000/2496003.stm Two stabbed in Bradford race riots 13 February 2008 7 July 2001 BBC News https://web.archive.org/web/20080203135129/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/7/newsid_2496000/2496003.stm 3 February 2008 live The riots begin after National Front members reportedly stab an Asian man outside a pub.David Waddington Fabien Jobard Mike King Rioting in the UK and France https://books.google.com/books?id=82kQBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA75 11 January 2013 Routledge 978-1-134-04571-6 75 12 July – The British transfer record is broken for the third time in eight months when Manchester United pay Italian club Lazio £28.1million for Argentine midfielder Juan Sebastián Verón.https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/m/man_utd/1423604.stm BBC News Veron seals £28.1m Man Utd move 12 July 2001 1 October 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20040526062152/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/m/man_utd/1423604.stm 26 May 2004 live 16 July – The Labour government suffers its first parliamentary defeat over the sacking of Gwyneth Dunwoody and Donald Anderson as chairs of select committees on transport and foreign affairs.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/16/newsid_2504000/2504125.stm Rebel MPs defeat the government 13 February 2008 16 July 2001 BBC News https://web.archive.org/web/20080307115116/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/16/newsid_2504000/2504125.stm 7 March 2008 live 18 July – Philip John Smith is sentenced to life imprisonment after pleading guilty to the murders of three women in Birmingham in November last year. https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1445017.stm Inquiry into triple killer's past BBC News 18 July 2001 12 May 2012 19 July – Politician and novelist Jeffrey Archer is sentenced to four years in prison for perjury and perverting the course of justice. 20 July – Rioting breaks out in Brixton, London, following the fatal shooting of Derek Bennett, a 29-year-old black man, by armed police in the area. 27 people are arrested and three police officers are injured.https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1449598.stm UK | Violence after police shooting demo BBC News 21 July 2001 7 September 2010 29 July – A victim support group condemns a reported £11,000 payout by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority to the parents of murdered Sarah Payne as "derisory". August 3 August – A car bomb explodes in Uxbridge Road, near Ealing Broadway railway station, injuring seven people.Car bombers rock west London https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1471284.stm BBC News 11 September 2023 3 August 2001 4 August – Oxford United move into their new 12,500-seat Kassam Stadium near the city's Blackbird Leys estate. Work on the stadium had started in 1996 but halted the following year due to the club's financial problems. The stadium will initially have three stands but a fourth stand could be built in the future to take the capacity to 15,000.http://www.stadiumguide.com/kassam/ The Kassam Stadium The Stadium Guide 7 April 2015 7 August – The government takes an unprecedented step with the £27 million nationalisation of a private hospital near Harley Street in London.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/7/newsid_2528000/2528139.stm 2001: NHS buys private hospital 20 March 2009 7 August 2001 BBC News https://web.archive.org/web/20090212221649/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/7/newsid_2528000/2528139.stm 12 February 2009 live 10 August – Former Conservative Party MP Neil Hamilton and his wife Christine are arrested on suspicion of sexual assault.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/10/newsid_2493000/2493289.stm 2001: Hamiltons condemn 'sex assault' arrest 20 March 2009 10 August 2001 BBC News https://web.archive.org/web/20090218190250/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/10/newsid_2493000/2493289.stm 18 February 2009 live 11 August – Southampton F.C. move into their new 32,000-seat St Mary's Stadium.http://www.stadiumguide.com/stmarysstadium/ St Mary's Stadium The Stadium Guide 7 April 2015 16 August – Former royal butler Paul Burrell is charged with the theft of items belonging to the late Diana, Princess of Wales;https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/16/newsid_2496000/2496177.stm Diana butler charged with theft 13 February 2008 16 August 2001 BBC News https://web.archive.org/web/20080307114909/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/16/newsid_2496000/2496177.stm 7 March 2008 live the prosecution subsequently collapses. 28 August – Police officer Karl Bluestone murders his wife and two children at their home in Gravesend, Kent.6 November 2001 PC 'killed family with hammer' en-GB https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/1641255.stm 3 September 2022 31 August – Neil and Christine Hamilton are cleared in connection with the sexual assault allegations. September 3 September – In Belfast, Protestant loyalists begin a picket of Holy Cross, a Catholic primary school for girls. For the next 11 weeks, riot police escort the schoolchildren and their parents through hundreds of protesters, amid rioting and heightened violence. 5 September – Peter Bray completes the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean in a kayak.Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006 7 September – One million children in over 3,000 schools participate in an experiment to discover if it is possible to create earthquakes by all jumping off chairs.https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/pupils-jump-to-it-in-quake-experiment-668442.html https://web.archive.org/web/20121021174725/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/pupils-jump-to-it-in-quake-experiment-668442.html dead 21 October 2012 Pupils jump to it in quake experiment The Independent 7 September 2001 4 March 2008 London Charles Arthur 10 September Charles Ingram wins £1 million on the television game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, but the prize is cancelled after he is accused of cheating.Charles Ingram transcript https://www.standard.co.uk/news/charles-ingram-transcript-6967487.html 13 January 2019 Evening Standard 21 January 2004 The Bank of Scotland and the Halifax merge to form HBOS plc. 11 September September 11 attacks: by al-Qaeda terrorists upon the United States. 67 UK nationals perish in the attacks, the largest loss of life from any nation other than the U.S. itself. One Canada Square, the UK's second tallest building, and the London Stock Exchange are evacuated following the attacks in the United States. Prime Minister Tony Blair cancels a speech he was due to give to the TUC, and pledges to "stand shoulder to shoulder" with the United States. 12 September – The funeral of Donald Campbell takes place at Coniston in Cumbria, 34 years after his death. 13 September The Queen orders the Changing of the Guard ceremony to be paused for a two-minute silence, followed by the playing of the American national anthem, in tribute to the victims of the terrorist attacks two days earlier. British politician William Hague resigns as Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Conservative Party. Iain Duncan Smith becomes leader of the Conservative Party after winning the leadership election.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/13/newsid_2516000/2516397.stm Duncan Smith is new Tory leader 13 February 2008 13 September 2001 BBC News https://web.archive.org/web/20080307115032/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/13/newsid_2516000/2516397.stm 7 March 2008 live 14 September – National memorial service held at St Paul's Cathedral for the victims of the 11 September terrorist attacks. 17 September – Gateshead Millennium Bridge opens to the public.https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1545986.stm Tilting bridge opens eye to the world BBC News 17 September 2001 7 July 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20090502062608/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1545986.stm 2 May 2009 live 21 September – Increased racial tensions in Peterborough, England, following the September 11 attacks result in the murder of Ross Parker by a gang of ten Muslims in a racially motivated attack. October 6 October – The England national football team achieves automatic qualification for next summer's World Cup in Japan and South Korea with a 2–2 draw against Greece at Old Trafford, thanks to an injury-time equaliser by captain David Beckham.https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/england/3014197/Brilliant-Beckham-averts-Greek-tragedy.html London The Daily Telegraph Colin Malam Brilliant Beckham averts Greek tragedy 6 October 2001 1 October 2010 7 October – United States armed-forces invade Afghanistan. Submarines of the British Royal Navy participate using Tomahawk cruise missiles.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/7/newsid_2519000/2519353.stm US launches air strikes against Taleban 13 February 2008 7 October 2001 BBC News https://web.archive.org/web/20080307115106/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/7/newsid_2519000/2519353.stm 7 March 2008 live 12 October – The long-serving politician and barrister Quintin Hogg dies aged 94 at his home in Putney Heath, London. 23 October – The Provisional Irish Republican Army announces that it has begun to decommission its weapons.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/23/newsid_2489000/2489099.stm IRA begins decommissioning weapons 13 February 2008 23 October 2001 BBC News https://web.archive.org/web/20080307115148/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/23/newsid_2489000/2489099.stm 7 March 2008 live 25 October – The British Crime Survey reveals that crime rates are at their lowest levels since 1981. November 3 November – A car bomb explodes in Birmingham near New Street railway station. No-one is injured, and it is believed that only the device's detonator exploded.Bomb blast in Birmingham https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/1636919.stm BBC News 11 September 2023 4 November 2001 4 November – The Police Service of Northern Ireland is established, as successor to the Royal Ulster Constabulary. 9 November – The film Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is premiered in London. 12 November – Greek authorities hold 12 British plane-spotters on charges of spying.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/12/newsid_2518000/2518385.stm Greece holds plane-spotting 'spies' 13 February 2008 12 November 2001 BBC News https://web.archive.org/web/20080307114928/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/12/newsid_2518000/2518385.stm 7 March 2008 live 22 November At the Ipswich by-election, the Labour Party candidate Chris Mole holds the seat.https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/1671476.stm Labour victory in Ipswich by-election 23 November 2001 BBC News The Labour government's upturn in popularity continues as the latest MORI poll puts them 31 points ahead of the Conservatives on 56%. 24 November – The 2001 Kangaroo tour concludes with the Australia national rugby league team defeating Great Britain in the 3rd and deciding test match of the Ashes series.Chowdhury Saj Kangaroos seal Ashes triumph https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/rugby_league/ashes_series/1674721.stm 30 December 2013 BBC Sport 24 November 2001 29 November – Ex-Beatle George Harrison dies aged 58 of lung cancer at a house belonging to Paul McCartney in Beverley Hills, California.http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/george-harrisons-death-certificate George Harrison's Death Certificate The Smoking Gun 22 June 2012 live https://web.archive.org/web/20120628104956/http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/george-harrisons-death-certificate 28 June 2012 December December – The third-generation Nissan Primera P12 goes into production with Nissan Motor Manufacturing UK. 10 December V. S. Naipaul wins the Nobel Prize in Literature "for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories".http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2001/ The Nobel Prize in Literature 2001 13 February 2008 Timothy Hunt and Paul Nurse win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with Leland H. Hartwell "for their discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle".http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2001/ The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2001 13 February 2008 11 December – The Post Office announces that up to 30,000 postal workers could be made redundant over the next 18 months as part of a £1.2billion cost-cutting package.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/11/newsid_2546000/2546289.stm 2001: 30,000 postal jobs 'to be cut' 20 March 2009 11 December 2001 BBC News https://web.archive.org/web/20090218221003/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/11/newsid_2546000/2546289.stm 18 February 2009 live 12 December – Roy Whiting is found guilty at Lewes Crown Court of the murder of Sarah Payne, an 8-year-old who was found dead near Pulborough, West Sussex, in July last year. It is then revealed that Whiting already had a conviction for abducting and molesting a girl of the same age in 1995. The trial judge sentences Whiting, a 42-year-old former mechanic, to life imprisonment and says that it is a rare case in which he would recommend to the appropriate authorities that life should mean life. It is only the 24th time that such a recommendation has been made in British legal history. 13 December – Lynette Lithgow, 51-year-old former BBC newsreader, is found murdered with her mother and brother at the family home in Trinidad.https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1711534.stm Americas | Tributes flood in for murdered journalist BBC News 15 December 2001 7 September 2010 21 December – The Metropolitan Police storm a cargo ship in the English Channel fearing that it might contain terrorist material.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/21/newsid_2539000/2539557.stm 2001: Terror alert as police seize cargo ship 20 March 2009 21 December 2001 BBC News 22 December – British-born terrorist Richard Reid attempts to blow up American Airlines Flight 63 from Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris to Miami International Airport, using explosives hidden in his shoes. 25 December – The Queen's last surviving aunt, Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, celebrates her hundredth birthday. Undated Conservatoire for Dance and Drama, a national higher education institution, is established, the founding affiliates being the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and the London Contemporary Dance School. The red-billed chough recolonises Cornwall after an absence of 50 years.The Cornish Chough http://www.cornwall.gov.uk/default.aspx?page=14166 Cornwall Council 7 June 2012 17 August 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20230817084613/https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/default.aspx?page=14166 dead First osprey breed in England in recent times. The proportion of people living in owner-occupied homes in England reaches an all-time peak of 72.5%.Hélène Mulholland Home ownership 'to fall to mid-80s levels' https://www.theguardian.com/business/2011/aug/30/home-ownership-fall-mid-80s-levels The Guardian 30 August 2011 30 August 2011 A record of nearly 2.5 million new cars are sold in Britain this year, with the Ford Focus being Britain's best selling car for the third year in a row. Vauxhall maintains its second place behind Ford for sales, while Citroën, Peugeot, Renault and Volkswagen also enjoy strong sales. MG Rover sales, however, fall below 100,000. Publications 29 October – Roger Hargreaves' children's book Mr. Cheeky celebrates the 30th anniversary of the Mr. Men series. Ian McEwan's novel Atonement. Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels Thief of Time, The Last Hero and The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents. The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents wins the Carnegie Medal. Births 135px|thumb|Lily Laight 135px|thumb|Bukayo Saka 135px|thumb|PinkPantheress 135px|thumb|Freya Allan 30 January – Curtis Jones, footballer 23 February – Molly Conlin, actress 24 February Anthony Gordon, footballer Ramona Marquez, actress 13 March – James Garner, footballer 19 April – PinkPantheress, singer 23 April – Cleo Demetriou, actress 6 May – Gayatri Nair, pianist and vocalist 23 May – Brennan Johnson, footballer 11 June – Billy Gilmour, footballer 13 June – Olivia Broome, para powerlifter 14 June – George Martin, rugby union player 21 June – Eleanor Worthington Cox, actress 28 June – Kobe Jae Chong, Malaysian footballer 4 July – Mikey Lewis, rugby league player 10 July – Maisie Smith, actress 16 July – Tom Taylor, actor 5 September – Bukayo Saka, footballer 6 September – Freya Allan, actress 29 September – Lauren James, footballer 1 October – Mason Greenwood, footballer 9 October – Louis Hynes, actor 21 October – Jess Park, footballer 8 November – Tilly Ramsay, television presenterGordon Ramsay Celebrates Daughter Matilda's 18th Birthday With Heartfelt Post https://popculture.com/reality-tv/news/gordon-ramsay-celebrates-daughter-matilda-18th-birthday-heartfelt-post/ popculture.com 8 November 2019 7 November 2020 12 November – Raffey Cassidy, actress 9 December – Cameron Archer, footballer 12 December – Michael Olise, footballer 13 December – Harley Bird, actress 16 December – Sebastian Croft, actor 22 December – Lily Laight, actress Deaths January 135px|thumb|Auberon Waugh 135px|thumb|Margaret Scriven 1 January – Sir Michael Hanley, intelligence officer (born 1918) 2 January George Carman, lawyer (born 1929) Alison de Vere, animator (born 1927) 5 January – G. E. M. Anscombe, analytic philosopher (born 1919) 6 January – Peter Lovell-Davis, Baron Lovell-Davis, publisher and politician (born 1924) 7 January – Charles Cameron, magician (born 1927) 8 January Philip A. Barker, archaeologist (born 1920) Catherine Storr, children's writer, former wife of Anthony Storr (born 1913) Paul Winterton, crime novelist (born 1908) 11 January Denys Lasdun, architect (Royal National Theatre) (born 1914) Lorna Sage, academic (born 1943) Michael Williams, actor (born 1935)https://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/jan/15/guardianobituaries.filmnews Michael Williams Eric Shorter The Guardian 15 January 2001 8 April 2021 14 January – Vic Wilson, racing driver (born 1931) 15 January – Leo Marks, author and Second World War cryptographer (born 1920) 16 January C. Arnold Beevers, crystallographer (born 1908) Auberon Waugh, author and journalist, son of Evelyn Waugh (born 1939) 17 January Tom Kilburn, computer scientist (born 1921) Robert Robertson, actor (born 1930) 18 January Peter Haigh, television presenter (born 1925) Reg Prentice, Baron Prentice, politician and life peer (born 1923) 20 January – Crispin Nash-Williams, mathematician (born 1932) 22 January – Anne Burns, aeronautical engineer and glider pilot (born 1915) 25 January – Margaret Scriven, tennis player (born 1912) 27 January – Robert Alexander Rankin, Scottish mathematician (born 1915) 29 January Julia Bodmer, geneticist (born 1934) Ninian Smart, writer and educator (born 1927) 30 January David Heneker, composer (born 1906) Johnnie Johnson, pilot (born 1915) John Prebble, journalist and historian (born 1915) John Taylor, Anglican prelate, Bishop of Winchester (1974–1985) (born 1914) February 135px|thumb|Barbara Noble 135px|thumb|Stan Cullis 1 February Sir Harold Maguire, air marshal (born 1912) Jack Milroy, comedian and actor (born 1915) 3 February Frederick Lawton, judge (born 1911) Gerald Suster, revisionist historian and novelist (born 1951) 4 February Barry Cockcroft, television writer and producer (born 1932) Allan Mansley, English footballer (born 1946) 5 February – Jean Denton, Baroness Denton of Wakefield, politician and racing driver (born 1935) 6 February – Sir Richard Southern, historian (born 1912) 7 February – Sir Michael Grylls, politician and father of Bear Grylls (born 1934) 8 February Leslie Edwards, ballet dancer (born 1916) Brian Nissen, actor (born 1927) Barbara Noble, novelist (born 1907) 9 February – Reginald Marsh, actor (born 1926) 11 February – Hermione, Countess of Ranfurly, peeress and author (born 1913) 13 February – Montague Woodhouse, 5th Baron Terrington, politician (born 1917) 14 February Alan Ross, poet (born 1922, India) Maurice Levitas, sociologist (born 1917) 17 February Gilly Flower, actress (born 1908) Christian O'Brien, geologist (born 1914) 18 February Colin Cole, herald (born 1922) Claude Davey, Welsh rugby union player (born 1908) 21 February Ronnie Hilton, singer and radio presenter (born 1926) Desmond Leslie, pilot, film maker, writer and musician (born 1921) John MacKay, Baron MacKay of Ardbrecknish, politician (born 1938) 22 February Christopher Mitchell, actor (born 1948) Cledwyn Hughes, Baron Cledwyn of Penrhos, Labour politician (born 1916) 23 February Marcus Sieff, Baron Sieff of Brimpton, businessman (born 1913) Guy Wood, musician and songwriter (born 1911) 26 February – Frances Lincoln, publisher (born 1945) 28 February – Stan Cullis, footballer and manager (born 1915) March 135px|thumb|Ninette de Valois 135px|thumb|Brian Trubshaw 1 March Joseph Cyril Bamford, businessman, founder of JCB (born 1916) Colin Webster, footballer (born 1932) 2 March – John Diamond, journalist (born 1953) 4 March – Brian Jones, motorcycle designer (born 1928) 5 March – Ian McHarg, Scottish architect (born 1920) 8 March – Dame Ninette de Valois, ballerina and ballet teacher (born 1898, Ireland) 10 March Walter Verco, herald (born 1907) Michael Woodruff, surgeon and scientist (born 1911) 13 March Bill Bland, optician and communist (born 1916) Cranley Onslow, Baron Onslow of Woking, politician (born 1926) 17 March Anthony Storr, psychiatrist and author, former husband of Catherine Storr (born 1920) Ralph Thomas, film director (born 1915) 19 March – Norman Mitchell, actor (born 1918) 20 March Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes, author (born 1919) Doreen Gorsky, politician and television executive (born 1912) 21 March – Anthony Steel, actor and singer (born 1920) 22 March – Barry Maxwell, 12th Baron Farnham, peer (born 1931) 23 March Anthony Bevins, journalist (born 1942) Margaret Ursula Jones, archaeologist (born 1916) 24 March N. G. L. Hammond, scholar (born 1907) Brian Trubshaw, test pilot, first British person to pilot Concorde (born 1924) Muriel Young, television presenter (born 1923) 26 March – Michael Cocks, Labour politician (born 1929) 27 March – Sir Kenneth Alexander, economist (born 1922) 31 March Edward Jewesbury, actor (born 1917) David Rocastle, footballer (born 1967) April 135px|thumb|Jean Anderson 135px|thumb|Ian Campbell, 12th Duke of Argyll 1 April – Jean Anderson, actress (born 1907) 3 April – Michael Berry, Baron Hartwell, newspaper proprietor (born 1911) 4 April – Beryl Gilroy, educator, novelist and poet (born 1924, British Guiana) 5 April Sir Kingsley Dunham, geologist (born 1910) David Lloyd Owen, Army general (born 1917) Malcolm Shepherd, 2nd Baron Shepherd, politician (born 1918) 6 April – George Bull, journalist and writer (born 1929) 7 April – Sir Derek Lang, Army general (born 1913) 10 April – Nyree Dawn Porter, actress (born 1936, New Zealand) 11 April John Harris, Baron Harris of Greenwich, journalist and politician (born 1930) Harry Secombe, entertainer (born 1921)https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1315879/Goon-star-Sir-Harry-Secombe-dies-aged-79.html Goon star Sir Harry Secombe dies aged 79 Thomas Penny 12 April 2001 The Daily Telegraph London 13 April – Jimmy Logan, Scottish comedian, actor and theatre producer (born 1928) 14 April – Bryan Ranft, naval historian (born 1917) 16 April – Alec Stock, footballer and football manager (born 1917) 17 April – Terry Scully, actor (born 1932) 18 April – Tony Bartley, television and film executive (born 1919) 21 April – Ian Campbell, 12th Duke of Argyll, peer (born 1937) 23 April Sir Charles Madden, 2nd Baronet, Royal Navy admiral (born 1906) R. A. C. Parker, historian (born 1927) 25 April – Rita Barisse, writer, journalist and translator (born 1917) 26 April – Bryon Butler, sports journalist (born 1934) 27 April – Ernie Graham, singer-songwriter (born 1946) 28 April – Paul Daneman, actor (born 1925) 29 April – Rita Hunter, opera singer (born 1933) 30 April – Brian Morris, Baron Morris of Castle Morris, poet and professor of literature (born 1930) May 135px|thumb|Douglas Adams 135px|thumb|Tony Ashton 2 May – Ted Rogers, comedian (born 1935) 3 May – Robert Millner Shackleton, geologist (born 1909) 4 May – Rita Lawrence, pianist and singer (born 1911) 5 May – David Jamieson, Army officer and Victoria Cross recipient (born 1920) 6 May – Mike Hazlewood, singer-songwriter (born 1941) 7 May – Arthur Christopher Watson, colonial administrator and diplomat (born 1927) 9 May Leslie Sands, actor (born 1921) William T. Stearn, botanist (born 1911) 10 May – Frank Newby, structural engineer (born 1926) 11 May Douglas Adams, writer, heart attack (born 1952)http://www.laweekly.com/2001-05-24/news/lots-of-screamingly-funny-sentences-no-fish/ Lots of Screamingly Funny Sentences. No Fish. – page 1 Lewis Judith Shulman Dave LA Weekly 24 May 2001 20 August 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20111010233102/http://www.laweekly.com/2001-05-24/news/lots-of-screamingly-funny-sentences-no-fish/ 10 October 2011 live Michael J. Bird, writer (born 1928) 12 May Norman Kay, composer and writer (born 1929) Simon Raven, novelist (born 1927) 14 May Eric Bradbury, comic artist (born 1921) Alex Glasgow, singer-songwriter (born 1935) 15 May – Bobby Murdoch, footballer (born 1944) 16 May – Brian Pendleton, guitarist (born 1944) 17 May – Enid Hattersley, Labour politician and mother of Roy Hattersley (born 1904) 18 May Rosa Beddington, biologist (born 1956) Stella Mary Newton, fashion designer (born 1901) Seán Mac Stíofáin, chief-of-staff of the Provisional IRA (born 1928) 19 May Patricia Hilliard, actress (born 1916) Mike Sammes, musician and vocal session arranger (born 1928) John Warner, actor (born 1924) 21 May – Graham Webster, archaeologist (born 1913) 22 May – Jack Watling, actor (born 1923) 23 May – Tommy Eyre, keyboardist (born 1949) 25 May Delme Bryn-Jones, Welsh baritone (born 1934) Harold Ridley, ophthalmologist (born 1903) 28 May – Tony Ashton, rock pianist and music producer (born 1946) 29 May – John Fleming, art historian (born 1919) 31 May – Rosemary Verey, garden designer (born 1918) June 135px|thumb|Tom Burns 3 June – Nicholas Albery, social inventor and author (born 1948); car accident 4 June – Tod Sweeney, Army colonel (born 1919) 5 June – Dennis Gillespie, Scottish footballer (born 1936) 7 June – Betty Neels, novelist (born 1909) 8 June – Don Roper, footballer (born 1922) 9 June Ronnie Allen, footballer and manager (born 1929) Yaltah Menuhin, pianist, artist and poet, sister of Yehudi Menuhin (born 1921, United States) 12 June Joseph Brady, actor (born 1928) W. D. Davies, Congregationalist minister and theologian (born 1911) Thomas Wilson, composer (born 1927) 16 June – Arthur Wheeler, motorcyclist (born 1916) 17 June – Thomas Winning, Archbishop of Glasgow (born 1925) 18 June – Dame Rosamund Holland-Martin, social welfare campaigner (born 1914) 19 June Lindsay L. Cooper, Scottish musician (born 1940) Jerry Cornes, athlete (born 1910, British India) David Sylvester, art critic (born 1924) 20 June Angela Browne, actress (born 1938) Tom Burns, sociologist (born 1913) 21 June – Vernon Sewell, film director and screenwriter (born 1903) 24 June – Nicola Ann Raphael, Scottish schoolgirl (born 1985); suicide caused by bullying 26 June – Louis Klemantaski, photographer (born 1912, China) 27 June – Joan Sims, actress (born 1930)http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/1411839.stm Carry on actress Joan Sims dead BBC News 28 June 2001 9 December 2025 29 June – Mary Barnes, artist (born 1923) 30 June – Joe Fagan, footballer and manager (born 1921) July 135px|thumb|Molly Lamont 2 July – Jack Gwillim, character actor (born 1909) 3 July Delia Derbyshire, composer of electronic music (born 1937) John Marriott, philatelist (born 1922) 5 July – George Ffitch, journalist and broadcaster (born 1929) 7 July – Molly Lamont, actress (born 1910) 8 July – Neil Midgley, football referee (born 1942) 12 July James Bernard, film composer (born 1925) Johnny Wright, boxer (born 1929) 13 July – Eleanor Summerfield, actress (born 1921) 14 July Jack Sheppard, cave diver (born 1909) Arthur Worsley, ventriloquist (born 1920) 15 July – Tom Chantrell, illustrator (born 1916) 16 July Tom Askwith, Olympic rower and colonial administrator (born 1911) Christina Miller, chemist (born 1899) 17 July Val Feld, Welsh politician (born 1947) Kenneth Boyd Fraser, virologist and World War II hero (born 1917) 18 July Roderic Bowen, Liberal politician (born 1913) Phil Clancey, ornithologist (born 1917) 19 July Paul Beeson, cinematographer (born 1921) Neil Carmichael, Baron Carmichael of Kelvingrove, politician (born 1921) 22 July Bertie Felstead, World War I soldier, last survivor of the Christmas truce of 1914 (born 1894) David Nelson, English rugby league player (murdered) (born 1962) 26 July – Charles Rob, surgeon (born 1913) 28 July – Eric Bedford, architect (BT Tower) (born 1909) 30 July – John Walters, radio presenter and musician (born 1939) 31 July – Philip Gaskell, bibliographer and librarian (born 1926) August 135px|thumb|Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford 135px|thumb|Rose Edgcumbe 135px|thumb|Ken Tyrrell 2 August – Sir Edward Gardner, politician (born 1912) 3 August Christopher Hewett, actor (born 1921) Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford, peer, politician and social reformer (born 1905) 4 August – Sir Paterson Fraser, air marshal (born 1907) 5 August – Aaron Flahavan, footballer (born 1975); car accident 6 August Kenneth MacDonald, actor (born 1950) Ian Ousby, historian and author (born 1947) Dame Dorothy Tutin, actress (born 1930) 8 August Patrick David Wall, neuroscientist (born 1925) Paul Vaessen, English footballer (born 1961); drug overdose Paul Weatherley, botanist (born 1917) 9 August Humphry Bowen, botanist and chemist (born 1929) Alec Skempton, scientist (born 1914) 11 August Edward Thomas Hall, scientist who proved Piltdown Man was a fraud (born 1924) Percy Stallard, racing cyclist (born 1909) 12 August Irene Astor, Baroness Astor of Hever, peeress and philanthropist (born 1919) Julian Pitt-Rivers, social anthropologist (born 1919) Sir Walter Walker, Army general (born 1912) 13 August – Jimmy Knapp, trade unionist, General Secretary of the RMT since 1990 (born 1940) 17 August – Sir Ralph Verney, 5th Baronet, Army major and conservationist (born 1915) 18 August David Peakall, toxicologist (born 1931) Tom Watson, Scottish actor (born 1932) 19 August – Les Sealey, footballer and coach (born 1957) 20 August – Fred Hoyle, astronomer (born 1915) 21 August – Beryl Cooke, actress (born 1906) 22 August – Rose Edgcumbe, psychologist and psychoanalyst (born 1934) 23 August – Eric Allandale, jazz musician (born 1936, Dominica) 25 August Madge Adam, astronomer (born 1912) Ken Tyrrell, British auto racing driver (born 1924)https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2001/aug/27/formulaone.alanhenry 27 August 2001 Alan Henry ormula one guru Tyrrell dies at 77 The Guardian 8 April 2021 26 August – John Horn, tennis player (born 1931) 28 August – Sir Kenneth Maddocks, colonial official, Governor of Fiji (1958–1963) (born 1907) 29 August – Roger Daley, meteorologist (born 1943) 31 August – Paul Hamlyn, Baron Hamlyn, publisher and philanthropist (born 1926) September 135px|thumb|Hilde Holger 1 September – Brian Moore, sports commentator (born 1932) 3 September – John Chapman, actor and screenwriter (born 1927) 4 September – Kathleen Sully, novelist (born 1910) 5 September – David Peter Lafayette Hunter, Royal Marines officer (born 1919) 7 September – Bunny Lewis, record producer and music manager (born 1918) 8 September – Eric Bullus, Conservative politician (born 1906) 11 September Henry Herbert, 7th Earl of Carnarvon, peer and racing manager to Queen Elizabeth II (born 1924) Rick Rescorla, British-born American soldier and police officer, killed in the September 11 attacks (born 1939) 14 September – Barbara Ansell, rheumatologist (born 1923) 17 September – Dickie Dodds, cricketer (born 1919) 21 September – Ross Parker, student (murdered) (born 1984) 22 September Hilde Holger, dancer and dance teacher (born 1909, Austria-Hungary) Leslie Howarth, mathematician (born 1911) Gordon Reece, journalist and political strategist (born 1929) 23 September – W. S. Barrett, classical scholar (born 1914) 24 September Peter Shore, Baron Shore of Stepney, politician (born 1924) Arthur Wynn, civil servant and recruiter of Soviet spies (born 1910) 27 September – Helen Cherry, actress (born 1915) 28 September – R. J. Hollingdale, biographer (born 1930) October 135px|thumb|Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone 135px|thumb|Ken Aston 135px|thumb|Linden Travers 3 October – Lady Jean Rankin, Scottish naturalist and courtier (born 1905) 4 October Patsy Burt, racing driver (born 1928) George Claydon, actor (born 1933) 7 October Christopher Adams, wrestler (murdered in the United States) (born 1955) Alf Gover, English cricketer (born 1908) Reg Matthews, English footballer (born 1933) 12 October Richard Buckle, ballet critic (born 1916) Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, politician (born 1907) 13 October – David Neil MacKenzie, linguist (born 1926) 14 October Eugene Grebenik, demographer (born 1919, Ukraine) Vernon Harrison, photographer and parapsychologist (born 1912) 15 October Jamie Cann, Labour politician (born 1946) Anne Ridler, poet and editor (born 1912) 17 October – Frank Anscombe, statistician (born 1918) 18 October – Ray Lovejoy, film editor (born 1939) 19 October – Kay Dick, journalist and novelist (born 1915) 21 October Margaret Hope MacPherson, Scottish crofter and activist (born 1908) J. H. Plumb, historian (born 1911) 23 October Ken Aston, football referee who developed the penalty card system (born 1915) Josh Kirby, artist (born 1928) Linden Travers, actress (born 1913) 24 October – Kim Gardner, musician (born 1948) 26 October Elizabeth Jennings, poet (born 1926) John Platts-Mills, lawyer and politician (born 1906) Richard Seifert, architect (NatWest Tower) (born 1910, Switzerland) Audrey Withers, magazine editor (born 1905) 28 October – Sir John Mogg, Army general (born 1913) 31 October Jenny Laird, actress (born 1912) Bill Le Sage, jazz musician (born 1927) Angus MacVicar, Scottish author (born 1908) November 135px|thumb|Tony Miles 135px|thumb|William Reid 135px|thumb|George Harrison 2 November Olivia Hamnett, actress (born 1943) William Whitlock, Labour politician (born 1918) 3 November Doug Hele, motorcycle designer (born 1919) Ernst Gombrich, art historian (born 1909, Austria-Hungary) 5 November Roy Boulting, film director and producer (born 1913) Barry Horne, animal rights activist (born 1952) Joan Marion, actress (born 1908, Australia) 6 November – Anthony Shaffer, playwright (born 1926) 7 November – Sir Ivan Neill, Northern Irish politician (born 1906) 8 November Anno Birkin, poet and musician (car accident) (born 1980) Albrecht Fröhlich, mathematician (born 1916, German Empire) Peter Laslett, historian (born 1915) 9 November – Dorothy Dunnett, novelist (born 1923) 10 November – Michael Lucas, 2nd Baron Lucas of Chilworth, peer and politician (born 1926) 11 November – Sir Denis Spotswood, RAF air marshal (born 1916) 12 November – Tony Miles, chess player, first British Grandmaster (born 1955)https://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/nov/14/guardianobituaries Tony Miles The Guardian 14 November 2001 9 December 2025 13 November – Peggy Mount, actress (born 1915) 14 November Charlotte Coleman, actress (born 1968) Hugh Verity, RAF pilot (born 1918) 15 November – Megan Boyd, fly tyer (born 1915) 16 November – Rosemary Brown, composer and spiritualist (born 1916) 18 November – Malcolm McFee, actor (born 1949) 22 November Theo Barker, social and economic historian (born 1923) Ronald Cuthbert Hay, Royal Marine fighter ace (born 1916) 23 November – Mary Whitehouse, campaigner against social liberalism (born 1910) 24 November – Rachel Gurney, actress (born 1920) 25 November – David Gascoyne, poet (born 1916) 27 November – Jane Welsh, actress (born 1905) 28 November Norman Lumsden, opera singer (born 1906) William Reid, RAF pilot and Victoria Cross recipient (born 1921) 29 November – George Harrison, rock musician (The Beatles) and film producer, lung cancer (born 1943); died in the USA December 135px|thumb|Stuart Adamson 135px|thumb|Mary Hardwick 2 December Bruce Halford, racing driver (born 1931) Martha Kneale, philosopher (born 1909) 5 December – Bill Roberts, athlete (born 1912) 6 December Colin Buchanan, town planner (born 1907) Thomas William Gould, Royal Navy sailor and Victoria Cross recipient (born 1914) 7 December David Astor, newspaper publisher (born 1912) Ray Powell, politician (born 1928) 9 December – Sir Michael Carver, Army general (born 1915) 11 December – Bert Axell, naturalist (born 1915) 12 December – Michael Torrens-Spence, Royal Navy pilot in World War II (born 1914) 13 December – Michael Bradshaw, actor (born 1933) 16 December – Stuart Adamson, guitarist, vocalist and songwriter (born 1958) 17 December – Gerald Ashby, football referee (born 1949) 18 December Mary Hardwick, tennis player (born 1913) Clifford T. Ward, singer-songwriter (born 1944) 20 December Edward Evans, actor (born 1914) Sir Peter Horsley, RAF commander (born 1921) 23 December – Dimitri Obolensky, historian and professor (born 1918, Russia) 24 December – Gareth Williams, musician (born 1953) 26 December Nigel Hawthorne, actor (born 1929) George Rochester, physicist (born 1908) 27 December Jack Beeching, poet and novelist (born 1922) Ian Hamilton, poet, critic and magazine publisher (born 1938) Paul Hogarth, artist (born 1917) 28 December – Anthony Royle, Baron Fanshawe of Richmond, politician (born 1927) 30 December Eric Cheney, motorcycle designer (born 1924) Dame Sheila Sherlock, physician (born 1918) 31 December – John Grigg, writer, historian and politician (born 1924) See also 2001 in British music 2001 in British television List of British films of 2001 References 30em 2001 Category:Years of the 21st century in the United Kingdom United Kingdom