1986 in the United Kingdom

none September 2020 February 2012 1986 Constituent countries of the United Kingdom England Northern Ireland Scotland Wales Popular culture 1986 British Grand Prix 1986 English cricket season Football: England Scotland 1986 in British television 1986 in British music 1986 in British radio UK in the Eurovision Song Contest 1986 Events from the year 1986 in the United Kingdom. It is particularly noted for the "Big Bang" deregulation of the financial markets. Incumbents Monarch – Elizabeth II Prime Minister – Margaret Thatcher (Conservative) Events January January – The Vauxhall Belmont compact saloon goes on sale, giving buyers a traditional saloon alternative to the Astra hatchback and estate models. The car would remain in production until September 1991. 9 January – Michael Heseltine resigns as Defence Secretary over the Westland affair.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/9/newsid_2516000/2516187.stm 1986: Heseltine quits over Westland BBC News 2007-11-28 9 January 1986 https://web.archive.org/web/20071230152735/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/9/newsid_2516000/2516187.stm 30 December 2007 live 12 January – The game show Catchphrase begins on ITV hosted by Roy Walker along with the computer generated character Mr. Chips. It concludes in 2002, but is revived in 2013. 14 January – The Salafi jihadist group al-Muhajiroun begins to operate in the UK. 20 January – The United Kingdom and France announce plans to construct the Channel Tunnel, which they hope to open by the early-1990s. 24 January – Leon Brittan resigns as Trade and Industry Secretary over the Westland affair.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/24/newsid_2506000/2506501.stm 1986: Leon Brittan quits over Westland BBC News 2007-11-28 24 January 1986 31 January – Unemployment for this month has increased to 3,204,900 – a postwar high which accounts for 14.4% of the workforce. February February Heavy snow and sub-zero temperatures affect most of Britain during the month. The British-built Peugeot 309 goes on sale in Britain, four months after its continental launch. It is built at the former Rootes/Chrysler factory at Ryton, near Coventry which is also set to produce a larger Peugeot saloon model from next year. 6 February – The UK Government scraps plans to sell Austin Rover to Ford. 12 February – The Franco-British Channel Fixed Link Treaty is signed at Canterbury as the Channel Tunnel plans move forward.http://www.eurotunnel.com/ukcP3Main/ukcCorporate/ukcTunnelInfrastructure/ukcDevelopment/ukpHistory Our history Eurotunnel 2016-01-08 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20100103073037/http://www.eurotunnel.com/ukcP3Main/ukcCorporate/ukcTunnelInfrastructure/ukcDevelopment/ukpHistory 3 January 2010 15 February – In the Wapping dispute, fifty-eight people are arrested by police at a demonstration. 17 February – The UK signs the Single European Act.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 452–453 0-7126-5616-2 March March – Ford launches a new generation of its big-selling Escort and Orion ranges. 4 March – The national tabloid newspaper Today launches from Wapping. It pioneers the use of computer photo typesetting and full-colour offset printing at a time when British national newspapers are still using Linotype machines and letterpress.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/15/newsid_3455000/3455083.stm 1986: Printers and police clash in Wapping BBC News 2007-11-28 15 February 1986 5 March – The High Court disqualifies and fines 81 Labour councillors for failing to set a rate. 13 March – The Sun newspaper alleges that comedian Freddie Starr ate a live hamster.Sun Headlines https://sunheadlines.blogspot.com/search/label/Classics?updated-max=2008-11-17T14%3A31%3A00Z&max-results=20 2013-02-26 18 March – Inheritance tax replaces Capital Transfer Tax. 19 March – Buckingham Palace announces the engagement of Prince Andrew to Sarah Ferguson; they will be married later this year. 23 March – Chelsea are the first winners of the Football League's new Full Members' Cup, beating Manchester City 5–4 in the final at Wembley, although Manchester City clawed the deficit to a single goal in the last five minutes after being 5–1 down. 29 March – The first high-speed catamaran ferry is introduced into service in the British Isles, Our Lady Patricia on Sealink British Ferries' Portsmouth–Ryde passage. 31 March The Greater London Council is abolished, as are the metropolitan county councils of West Midlands, Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Tyne and Wear, West Yorkshire and South Yorkshire.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/31/newsid_2530000/2530803.stm 1986: Greater London Council abolished BBC News 2007-11-28 31 March 1986 A fire causes extensive damage at Hampton Court Palace in Surrey. The Haig Pit, Whitehaven, Cumbria closes. April April – Hanson Trust concludes its takeover of the Imperial Group for £2.5 billion.http://www.imperial-tobacco.com/index.asp?page=149 Imperial Tobacco History – The Hanson years 2010 2010-09-23 https://web.archive.org/web/20100902063334/http://www.imperial-tobacco.com//index.asp?page=149 2 September 2010 dead 1 April The extension of London Underground's Piccadilly line to Heathrow Terminal 4 is opened by the Prince and Princess of Wales (Charles and Diana). Trains do not stop at the station until 12 April.Green, Oliver The London Underground – An Illustrated History Ian Allan 1988 63 0-7110-1720-4 Establishment of National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside group of institutions, funded through national government. 7 April – Clive Sinclair sells rights to ZX Spectrum and other inventions to Amstrad.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/7/newsid_2472000/2472345.stm 1986: Sinclair sells computer business BBC News 2007-11-28 7 April 1986 10 April – The Fulham by-election, caused by the death of the sitting Conservative MP Martin Stevens on 10 January, is held. The seat is lost to Labour, under Nick Raynsford. 15 April – The Shops Bill 1986, which would have liberalised Sunday shopping, is defeated in the House of Commons on its second reading, the last time that a government bill will fall at this stage,Guide to Parliament https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6999683.stm BBC News 2007-10-11 2022-10-20 one of only four defeats in the Commons for Mrs Thatcher and the only time an entire government bill is defeated during her tenure. 17 April Journalist John McCarthy is kidnapped in Beirut, where three other hostages are found dead. The Revolutionary Cells (RZ) claims responsibility as revenge for the recent American bombing of Libya. McCarthy will be held for more than 5 years. A treaty is signed to end the supposed Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years' War between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly. 20 April – Oxford United F.C., who joined the Football League only in 1962 and are in the First Division for the first time, win the Football League Cup with a 3–0 win over Queens Park Rangers at Wembley. 24 April – Wallis, Duchess of Windsor dies in her home in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris, aged 89, outliving her husband (the former King Edward VIII) by fourteen years. 28 April – The first phase of the MetroCentre, Europe's largest indoor shopping centre, in Gateshead, is opened. The remainder of the centre is set to open this autumn.http://www.metrocentre.uk.com/ metrocentre 2013-03-15 17 July 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20110717143825/http://www.metrocentre.uk.com/ dead 29 April – The Duchess of Windsor is buried at Frogmore.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/29/newsid_2500000/2500427.stm 1986: Simple funeral rites for Duchess BBC News 2007-11-28 29 April 1986 https://web.archive.org/web/20071230041309/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/29/newsid_2500000/2500427.stm 30 December 2007 live 30 April – Rioting erupts overnight in prisons across Britain. Dozens of prisoners escape, while prisoners at Stafford Prison set the prison canteen alight by smashing windows and dumping a burning mattress onto the roof. The worst disturbances come at Northeye Prison in Sussex, where a 70-strong mob of prisoners takes over the jail and sets fire to the canteen, hospital wing and sports hall.http://www.bernardomahoney.com/forthcb/ootdie/articles/jacoar.shtml 1 May 1986 Jail action called off after riots Wolverhampton Express & Star 2013-03-15 May May – The last Talbot badged passenger cars are built in Britain and France by Peugeot who will continue making their own cars at the former Rootes Group plant near Coventry and the former Simca production facilities in France. Peugeot is to continue the Talbot brand for commercial vehicles and production of the Horizon range will continue in Spain and Finland until next year. 5 May – Liverpool win the Football League First Division title for a record 16th time after winning 1–0 at Chelsea. Kenny Dalglish, in his first season as the club's player-manager, scores the goal which gives Liverpool the title. 8 May Labour makes large gains in local council elections, collecting 37% of the votes nationally compared to the Conservatives on 34% and the Alliance on 26%. These are the first national elections to be held since the recent abolition of the metropolitan councils. By-elections are held in West Derbyshire and Ryedale, caused by the resignation of Matthew Parris and the death of John Spence, both Conservative MPs, respectively. The Conservatives hold West Derbyshire under Patrick McLoughlin but lose Ryedale to the Liberals. Former Labour MP and life peer Manny Shinwell, Baron Shinwell dies at the age of 101, making him the second longest-lived British MP until 2008. 10 May – The first all-Merseyside FA Cup final ends in a 3–1 win for Liverpool over Everton, who become only the third team this century to win the double, having already secured the Football League First Division title.FA Cup Final 1986 http://www.fa-cupfinals.co.uk/1986.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20090525021208/http://www.fa-cupfinals.co.uk/1986.htm 25 May 2009 dead 2009-05-30 20 May – The Marriage (Prohibited Degrees of Relationship) Act revises the prohibited degree of kinship for marriage. 21 May – The Harrison Birtwistle opera The Mask of Orpheus premieres in London. June 10 June – Patrick Joseph Magee is found guilty of the 1984 Brighton hotel bombing and sentenced to life imprisonment.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/10/newsid_2510000/2510649.stm 1986: Magee convicted of Brighton bombing BBC News 2007-11-28 10 June 1986 12 June Derek Hatton, leader of Liverpool council, is expelled from the Labour Party for belonging to the entryist Militant group.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/12/newsid_2511000/2511839.stm 1986: Labour expels Militant Hatton BBC News 2007-11-28 12 June 1986 Austin Rover is renamed the Rover Group four years after the name change from British Leyland. 14 June – The Queen rides to Trooping the Colour on horseback for the last time. 23 June – Patrick Magee is jailed for life for the 1984 Brighton hotel bombing as well as other IRA bombings. 24 June – Ian Paisley's Democratic Unionist Party stage protest at dissolution of Northern Ireland Assembly.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/24/newsid_2519000/2519077.stm 1986: Ian Paisley's battle cry condemned BBC News 2007-11-28 24 June 1986 29 June Richard Branson beats the speed record for a transatlantic crossing by boat in Virgin Atlantic Challenger II but is denied the Blue Riband award.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/26/newsid_2519000/2519869.stm 1986: Branson on course for Blue Riband", BBC News 2007-11-28 26 June 1986 The Association football World Cup ends in Mexico with Argentina as winners and West Germany runners-up, but England's Gary Lineker wins the Golden Boot, having finished as the competition's leading scorer with six goals. Lineker, who has been at Everton for the last year and is the First Division's top scorer, is reported to be on the verge of a transfer to FC Barcelona of Spain.https://www.expressandstar.com/days/1976-2000/1986.html 1986 Express & Star Wolverhampton 2013-09-04 July July – Nissan begins production of the Bluebird at its landmark factory near Sunderland. 1 July – Gary Lineker becomes the most expensive British footballer ever in a £2.75 million move from Everton to FC Barcelona.TV and Radio https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/3578787/A-career-of-two-halves.html A career of two-halves The Telegraph 12 June 2002 2013-09-04 London 2 July – 24 hours after Gary Lineker's transfer, Ian Rush sets a new transfer record for a British footballer when he agrees a £3.2 million move from Liverpool to Juventus of Italy, but is loaned back to Liverpool for a season and will not play his first game for Juventus until at least August 1987.https://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=6935 Ian Rush | Football Stats | No Club | Age 51 | 1979–1999 Soccer Base 2013-09-04 4 July – A policeman is cleared of the manslaughter of five-year-old John Shorthouse, who was killed in an armed raid on a house in Birmingham in August last year. 10 July – Austin Rover launches its new Honda-based Rover 800 executive car, which replaces the decade-old Rover SD1 and is part of a joint venture with Japanese carmaker Honda. The car will also be sold in the United States under the Sterling marque. The Honda version will be badged as the Honda Legend.https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Bw5BAAAAIBAJ&pg=5628,2109104 Maggie's Pat on Head for Rover Evening Times Glasgow 1986-07-10 15 2016-01-08 12 July – Rioting breaks out at Portadown in Northern Ireland between Protestants and Catholics.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/12/newsid_2502000/2502517.stm 1986: Orange Parade sparks riots BBC News 2007-11-28 12 July 1986 17 July It is announced that unemployment rose to 3,220,400 in June. It has now exceeded 3 million for nearly five years. The Newcastle-under-Lyme by-election, caused by the resignation of the sitting Labour MP John Golding on 24 June, is held. His wife Llin Golding is elected the new Labour MP. 23 July – Prince Andrew, Duke of York, marries Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey in London.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/23/newsid_2516000/2516203.stm 1986: Prince Andrew weds Sarah Ferguson BBC News 2007-11-28 23 July 1986 24 July–2 August – The Commonwealth Games are held in Edinburgh. 25 July Building Societies Act allows building societies to offer the same personal finance services as banks. The Bank of England withdraws its guidance on mortgage loans. Social Security Act introduces Family Credit, a tax credit for low-paid workers with children. 26 July – A passenger train collides with a van in the Lockington rail accident in East Yorkshire; nine people are killed, eight on the train and one in the van. 28 July – Estate agent Suzy Lamplugh vanishes after a viewing in London. She is declared legally dead in 1994, but what happened will remain unknown, her body will still not have been found and no-one will have been formally charged with her murder.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/30/newsid_2492000/2492647.stm 1986: Parents appeal for missing agent BBC News 2007-11-28 30 July 1986 30 July – A MORI poll shows that Labour are now nine points ahead of the Conservatives with 41% of the vote, with Liberal/SDP Alliance support now at 25%.https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8280050.stm Poll tracker: Interactive guide to the opinion polls BBC News 1970-01-01 2013-09-04 August 4 August – Mathematician Simon Donaldson is awarded a Fields Medal.The Hutchinson Factfinder Helicon 1999 1-85986-000-1 8 August – Rival gangs of Manchester United and West Ham United fans clash on a Sealink ferry bound for Amsterdam where the two clubs are playing pre-season friendlies. The UEFA ban on English clubs in European competitions is continuing for a second season, and there are now fears that English clubs may not even be able to play friendlies overseas. 13 August – The Eurotunnel Group is formed to operate the Channel Tunnel. 15 August – The latest MORI poll shows that the Conservatives have eliminated Labour's nine-point lead and drawn level with them by gaining 37% in the latest opinion poll, in the space of just over two weeks. 16 August – Figures released by the government reveal that a record of nearly 3,100,000 people claimed Unemployment Benefit last month, although the official total of unemployed people in Britain is still short of the record of nearly 3,300,000 which was set two years ago.Ashley Seager https://www.theguardian.com/business/2006/aug/16/socialexclusion.politics 20 years ago the dole queue hit 3 million – today it is the workforce that's a record | Business The Guardian 2006-08-16 2013-09-04 London 19 August – The privatisation of the National Bus Company begins with the first sale of a bus operating subsidiary, Devon General, in a management buyout. 22 August – John Stalker, deputy chief constable of Greater Manchester police, is cleared of misconduct over allegations of associating with criminals.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/22/newsid_2535000/2535029.stm 1986: Police chief cleared of misconduct BBC News 2007-11-28 22 August 1986 24–25 August – The inaugural Birmingham Superprix, the first street race to be held in mainland Britain, takes place in Birmingham city centre. It will run annually on August Bank Holiday weekend until 1990.https://www.britainbycar.co.uk/birmingham/263-birmingham-superprix Birmingham Superprix Britain By Car 12 December 2014 20 January 2024 25 August – Economists warn that a global recession is imminent, barely five years after the previous recession. 29 August Britain's oldest twins, May and Marjorie Chavasse, celebrate their one-hundredth birthday.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/29/newsid_2536000/2536297.stm 1986: UK's oldest twins turn 100 BBC News 2007-11-28 1986-08-29 Highest national average 24-hour total rainfall until 2020.Extreme weather: October downpour sees UK's wettest day on record Matt McGrath https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-54561601 BBC News 2020-10-16 2020-10-16 c. August – The one-millionth council house in the United Kingdom is sold to its tenants in Scotland, seven years after the Right To Buy scheme was launched.Speech to Conservative Party Conference http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/106498 Margaret Thatcher 10 October 1986 Margaret Thatcher Foundation 2013-02-26 September September – GCSE examination courses replace both GCE 'O' Level and CSE courses for 14-year-olds.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/20/newsid_2516000/2516847.stm 1984: O-Levels to be replaced by GCSEs BBC News 2008-01-29 20 June 1984 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307124427/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/20/newsid_2516000/2516847.stm 7 March 2008 live 6 September – First episode of medical drama serial Casualty airs on BBC One. It will still be running on television almost forty years later. 8 September – Margaret Thatcher officially opens the first phase of the Nissan car factory at Sunderland, which has been in use for two months. It is the first car factory to be built in Europe by a Japanese carmaker.http://www.qashqaiclub.co.uk/sunderland_History.htm Nissan Sunderland Qashqai Club 2013-09-04 https://web.archive.org/web/20120511040246/http://www.qashqaiclub.co.uk/sunderland_History.htm 11 May 2012 dead 13 September – Motorcyclist Neil Robinson, 24, dies after his motorcycle crashes on the Oliver's Mount racing circuit in Scarborough during a practice session. 14 September – Fears of another recession in Britain are eased by economists at Liverpool University predicting 3.1% economic growth next year. 18 September – It is announced that unemployment rose to 3,280,106 in July. 19 September – One man, a train driver, is killed and 79 people are injured in the Colwich railway accident. 24 September – The flotation of the Trustee Savings Banks attracts a record of more than 4 million applications for shares. October 7 October – The first edition of The Independent national morning newspaper is published in London.Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006 9 October "Babes in the Wood" murders: two girls, Nicola Fellows (aged nine) and Karen Hadaway (aged 10), are reported missing in Moulsecoomb, Brighton. Musical The Phantom of the Opera opens at Her Majesty's Theatre in London. 10 October – "Babes in the Wood" murders: two bodies found in Wild Park, Brighton, are identified as those of the two girls reported missing yesterday and a murder investigation is launched.Russell Bishop: Paedophile guilty of 1986 Babes in Wood murders https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-46512496 BBC News 2018-12-11 10 December 2018 12 October – Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh visit the People's Republic of China, the first ever visit to the country by a British monarch. 14 October – The MetroCentre, a shopping complex built on the Tyneside Enterprise Zone, is opened. It is similar in concept to the Merry Hill Shopping Centre that is being developed near Dudley in the West Midlands. The MetroCentre is officially the largest shopping complex in Europe.http://thechaiseguesthouse.com/metrocentre.php Metro Centre Thechaiseguesthouse.com 2013-09-04 Among the MetroCentre's tenants is Marks & Spencer, whose department store there is its first out of town outlet.March 2020 24 October – The UK breaks off diplomatic relations with Syria over links to the Hindawi affair.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/24/newsid_2478000/2478505.stm 1986: UK cuts links with Syria over bomb plot BBC News 2007-11-28 24 October 1986 https://web.archive.org/web/20071026033944/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/24/newsid_2478000/2478505.stm 26 October 2007 live 26 October Bus deregulation begins in the United Kingdom, except Greater London and Northern Ireland. Jeffrey Archer resigns as Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party over allegations concerning prostitutes.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/26/newsid_2478000/2478303.stm 1986: Archer quits over prostitute allegations BBC News 2007-11-28 26 October 1986 27 October "Big Bang Day": London Stock Exchange is computerised, and opens to foreign companies. BBC1 starts a full daytime television service, including the UK launch of Australian soap Neighbours, more than a year after debuting in its native country.https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/australiaandpacific/australia/11479992/Neighbours-30th-anniversary-on-the-trail-of-the-soap-in-Melbourne.html https://web.archive.org/web/20150318144014/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/australiaandpacific/australia/11479992/Neighbours-30th-anniversary-on-the-trail-of-the-soap-in-Melbourne.html dead 2015-03-18 Neighbours 30th anniversary - on the trail of the soap in Melbourne Chris Leadbeater 2015-03-18 2019-10-09 Telegraph London 28 October – Jeremy Bamber is found guilty of the 1985 "White House Farm murders" of his parents, sister and twin nephews in Essex, and is sentenced to life imprisonment with a recommended minimum of 25 yearshttps://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/28/newsid_2477000/2477857.stm 1986: 'Evil' Bamber jailed for family murders BBC News 2007-11-28 28 October 1986 and as of 2025 is still in prison. 29 October – Margaret Thatcher opens the completed M25 London Orbital Motorway, the first section of which opened in 1975. It covers a distance of 122 miles and features 31 junctions, although there are no service stations yet.https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/motoring/features/the-m25-were-on-the-road-to-nowhere-420365.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/motoring/features/the-m25-were-on-the-road-to-nowhere-420365.html 1 May 2022 subscription live The M25: We're on the road to nowhere – Features – Motoring The Independent 2006-10-17 2013-09-04 London 30 October – Children and young people's telephone counselling charity Childline begins taking calls.ChildLine marks 25 years of helping children https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15482051 BBC News 4 December 2021 28 October 2011 November November First UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the U.K. designated: Giant's Causeway and the Causeway Coast (Northern Ireland); Durham Castle and Cathedral; Ironbridge Gorge; Studley Royal Park (including the ruins of Fountains Abbey); Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites; and Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd (Wales). Launch of the second generation Vauxhall Carlton, largest model in the Vauxhall range. It will be sold as the Opel Omega on the continent, and all European versions of the car will be built in West Germany. 3 November – The Conservatives top a MORI poll for the first time this year, coming one point ahead of Labour with 40% of the vote. Liberal/SDP Alliance support has slumped to 18%. 6 November 45 oil platform workers and flight crew are killed in the 1986 British International Helicopters Chinook crash. Chancellor Nigel Lawson announces a £4.6 billion rise in public spending. Alex Ferguson is appointed manager of Manchester United football club following the dismissal of Ron Atkinson after more than five years in charge. United won two FA Cups under the management of Atkinson but have not won the league title since 1967 and are now second from bottom in the Football League First Division. Ferguson will hold the post for 26 years. 7 November Sir James Goldsmith's £5 billion bid for the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company is rejected. Education (No. 2) Act 1986 requires increased representation of parents in the governance of schools, abolishes school corporal punishment in the state sector, and gives universities a duty to protect freedom of speech.https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/61/contents/enacted Education (No. 2) Act 1986 20 January 2024 13 November It is announced that unemployment fell by 96,000 in October. The Knowsley North by-election, caused by the departure of the sitting Labour MP Robert Kilroy-Silk on 1 October, is held. The seat is held by Labour under George Howarth. 13 November – Michael Lush falls to his death on the set of The Late, Late Breakfast Show, leading to the show's cancellation.Sapsted David Family to delay legal action decision The Times 17 November 1986 18 November – Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, who are both still in prison 20 years after their Moors Murders convictions, confess to the murders of two missing children – Pauline Reade, who vanished in July 1963 at the age of 16, and Keith Bennett, who was last seen in June 1964 at the age of 12. 20 November – Greater Manchester Police begin their search for the two newly identified Moors Murders victims.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/20/newsid_2551000/2551029.stm 1986: Police renew hunt for Moors victims BBC News 2007-11-28 20 November 1986 21 November – The Government launches a £20 million campaign to warn members of the public about the dangers of AIDS. December December – The first case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy is diagnosed in British cattle. 1 December – The government launches an inquiry into financial irregularities at Guinness.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/1/newsid_2495000/2495057.stm 1986: Surprise inquiry into Guinness affairs BBC News 2007-11-28 1 December 1986 https://web.archive.org/web/20071204121944/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/1/newsid_2495000/2495057.stm 4 December 2007 live 3 December – 4 million people apply for shares in British Gas in anticipation of flotation next week. 4 December – 20-year-old roofer Russell Bishop is charged with the "Babes in the Wood" murders in Brighton two months ago but will not be convicted until a second trial in 2018. 8 December – British Gas shares are floated on the Stock Exchange. The initial public offering of 135p per share values the company at £9 billion, the highest equity offering ever at this time.Andrew Andrew Marr Marr A History of Modern Britain London Macmillan 2007 978-1-4050-0538-8 431 17 December – The world's first heart, lung and liver transplant is carried out at Papworth Hospital in Cambridgeshire. 18 December – It is announced that unemployment fell to a four-year low of less than 3,100,000 in November.May 2020 InternetArchiveBot yes On 15 January 1987 it is announced that unemployment has fallen in December 1986 for the fifth month in succession. 22 December – David Penhaligon, a leading Liberal Party MP, dies in a car crash near Truro in his Cornwall constituency at the age of 42.Ken Polsson This Day in History – 22 December http://www.islandnet.com/~kpolsson/thisday/1222.htm 2013-02-26 25 December – The highest audience of all time for a British television drama is attracted by the Christmas Day episode of soap opera EastEnders, in which Den Watts (Leslie Grantham) serves the divorce papers on his wife Angie (Anita Dobson) after discovering that she had feigned a terminal illness to try to stop him from leaving her in an episode aired in October this year. More than 30 million viewers tune in for the episode of the TV series which first went on air in February 1985.https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/jun/15/dirty-den-leslie-grantham-eastenders-biggest-soap-star-of-them-all 15 June 2018 2 April 2020 The Guardian Dirty Den: how the EastEnders bad boy became the biggest soap star of them all Mark Lawson 29 December – Harold Macmillan, Earl of Stockton and former Prime Minister, dies at his home, Birch Grove in East Sussex, aged 92, the oldest former Prime Minister until 2005. Undated Inflation reaches a 19-year low of 3.4%.http://www.parliament.uk/commons/lib/research/rp99/rp99-020.pdf Inflation: the Value of the Pound 1750–1998 Robert Twigger House of Commons Library Research Paper 99/20 1999-02-23 2016-01-08 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20060219130455/http://www.parliament.uk/commons/lib/research/rp99/rp99-020.pdf 19 February 2006 Publications Janet and Allan Ahlberg's children's book The Jolly Postman. Kingsley Amis's novel The Old Devils. Jeffrey Archer's novel A Matter of Honour. Iain Banks' novel The Bridge. John le Carré's novel A Perfect Spy. Richard Dawkins' book The Blind Watchmaker. Brian Jacques' novel Redwall, first in the eponymous series. Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel The Light Fantastic. 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Cooper, actor Lucy Evangelista, model and pageant winner 18 January – John Farnworth, football freestyler, entertainer, actor, and World Record holder 20 January – Hannah Daniel, actress 22 January – Ella Edmondson, singer/songwriter 23 January – Anne Foy, children's television presenter 24 January Mischa Barton, British-born American actress Oliver Brennand, rugby player Montell Douglas, Olympic sprinter and bobsleigher 26 January Luke Bowen, speedway rider Danny Crow, footballer 28 January Jessica Ennis-Hill, Olympic heptathlete Ashley Lilley, actress and singer 29 January – Mark Howard, footballer February thumb|upright|100px|Gemma Arterton thumb|100px|Charlotte Church 1 February Kerry Blewett, lifeguard and canoe sprinter Joe Connor, footballer Tom Deacon, comedian 2 February – Gemma Arterton, actress 3 February Donald Barrell, rugby player James DeGale, boxer David Edwards, footballer 4 February – Lewis Chalmers, footballer 5 February – Billy Sharp, footballer 6 February – Jon-Allan Butterworth, Paralympic cyclist 7 February – Ben Batt, actor 8 February – James Collins, rugby player 11 February Bim Afolami, politician Tom Bartram, cricketer Mark Coulson, footballer 19 February Duncan Bradshaw, cricketer Ophelia Lovibond, actress 21 February – Charlotte Church, singer/songwriter 22 February – Mark Allen, snooker player 23 February Darren Cheesman, hockey player Laura Coleman, model, social media influencer, and actress 25 February Andrew Dick, footballer James and Oliver Phelps, identical twin actors 27 February – Adam Bartlett, footballer 28 February – Kingsley Ben-Adir, actor March thumb|upright|100px|Charlie Mulgrew thumb|upright|100px|Danny Jones thumb|upright|100px|Jamie Bell thumb|upright|100px|Sylvan Ebanks-Blake 1 March Joanna Blair, javelin thrower Aaron Bramwell, rugby player Alec Utgoff, Ukrainian-born actor 2 March James Ashmore, footballer Jay Conroy, footballer 3 March Iwan Brown, rugby player Tom Curle, footballer 5 March – Matty Fryatt, footballer and coach 6 March Danny Jones, rugby league footballer (d. 2015) Charlie Mulgrew, footballer 7 March – Geraint Davies, rugby player 8 March – Emma Cousin, artist 11 March Peter Bissell, cyclist Tom Clarke, musician and frontman for The Enemy Will Dobson, cricketer 12 March Mat Bailey, footballer Danny Jones, musician, singer/songwriter, vocalist and guitarist for McFly 13 March Hannah Claydon, model Kat Driscoll, Olympic trampoline gymnast 14 March – Jamie Bell, actor 16 March Dave Coupland, golfer Joe Denly, cricketer 17 March – Will Chudley, rugby player 19 March – Kane Ashcroft, footballer (d. 2015) 20 March – Kirsty Blackman, politician 21 March Samantha Bowen, Iraqi War veteran and Paralympic sitting volleyball player Sam Nixon, singer and TV presenter 22 March Tom Cheeseman, footballer Eddie Dennis, wrestler 24 March Tom Davies, rugby player 25 March Ashleigh Ball, hockey player Bob Davidson, footballer 26 March – Luc Bernard, video game designer and artist 28 March Jay Curtis, television & radio broadcaster and actor Bolu Fagborun, Nigerian-born rugby player 29 March – Sylvan Ebanks-Blake, footballer 31 March Scott Baker, darts player Matty Collins, footballer April thumb|upright|100px|Brett Ferres thumb|upright|100px|Daniel Sharman thumb|upright|100px|Jenna Coleman 1 April – Fardad Farahzad, Iranian-born journalist 3 April – Coleen Rooney, media personality 6 April – David Avery, actor 7 April – Andi Fraggs, singer/songwriter and music producer 8 April – Liam Scarlett, choreographer (d. 2021) 9 April Doctor P, dubstep producer and DJ Leilani Franco, contortionist 10 April Sam Attwater, actor Adam Connolly, footballer Martin Drury, footballer and coach 12 April – Nick Crumpton, zoologist and children's author 13 April – Michael Bingham, Olympic track-and-field athlete 14 April – Matt Derbyshire, footballer 15 April Chris Dagnall, footballer Tom Heaton, footballer 16 April Darren Campbell, footballer Paul Di Resta, racing driver 17 April – Brett Ferres, rugby player 18 April Jordan Brookes, comedian Gavin Cadwallader, footballer James Dabill, motorcycle trials rider Gareth Evans, Olympic weightlifter 20 April – Phil Clifton, television and radio presenter 21 April – Blair Cowan, rugby player 22 April – Stuart Anderson, footballer 23 April – Stuart Fleetwood, footballer 25 April – Daniel Sharman, actor 27 April – Jenna Coleman, actress 29 April – Donna Etiebet, rower 30 April – Michael Collins, footballer May thumb|upright|100px|Robert Pattinson thumb|upright|100px|Charlie Fink thumb|upright|100px|Charlie Casely-Hayford 3 May Kell Brook, boxer Poppy Delevingne, model Jon-Lewis Dickinson, boxer 5 May – Brett Domino, musician and comedian 6 May – David Buchanan, footballer 7 May – Jamie Day, footballer 10 May – Liam Davies, rugby player 11 May – Marc Fitzpatrick, footballer 12 May – Luke Douglas, Australian-born rugby player 13 May Mark Bott, cricketer Robert Pattinson, actor 14 May – Richard Huckle, convicted sex offender (d. 2019) 15 May – Tom Champion, footballer 16 May – Charlie Fink, songwriter, producer and filmmaker 17 May – Jodie Taylor, footballer 19 May – Christian Begg, cricketer 20 May Dexter Blackstock, footballer Robert Emms, actor 23 May – Matthew Crampton, cyclist 24 May – Charlie Casely-Hayford, fashion designer 25 May – Lauren Crace, actress and radio presenter 26 May Fern Brady, comedian and writer James Cockle, speedway rider Martin Paul Eve, academic, writer, and disability rights campaigner 27 May – Conor Cummins, motorcycle racer 28 May – Laura Dockrill, author and performance poet 29 May Anthony Barry, footballer Danny Fox, footballer 31 May – Chris Brooker, rugby player June thumb|upright|100px|Amar Chadha-Patel thumb|upright|100px|Oona Chaplin thumb|upright|100px|Richard Madden thumb|upright|100px|Sam Claflin 1 June – Skream, DJ and producer 3 June Amar Chadha-Patel, actor, filmmaker, and musician Jordan Crane, rugby player Mike Dodds, football coach 4 June Scott Boyd, footballer Oona Chaplin, Spanish-born actress and dancer Nicole Emmanuel, footballer Shelly Woods, Paralympic wheelchair racer 5 June – Charlotte Dobson, Olympic sailor 8 June – Michelle Cooper, bowler 9 June – Luis Felber, British-born Peruvian musician 10 June – Zara Dampney, Olympic beach volleyball player 12 June Gary Buckland, boxer Scott Flinders, footballer Luke Youngblood, actor 13 June – Mark D. Ferguson, film director, screenwriter and camera operator 14 June – Jonathan Clare, cricketer 15 June Jordan Andrews, composer, musician and producer Dean Bowditch, footballer 17 June Steven Davies, cricketer Helen Glover, rower 18 June Kevin Bradley, footballer Gareth Duke, Paralympic swimmer Ian Field, cyclo-cross cyclist Richard Madden, actor 20 June – Alex Davies, rugby player 21 June – Stuart Abbot, footballer 23 June – Colin Ryan, actor 24 June – Stuart Broad, cricketer 25 June Megan Burns, musician and actress Sean Crombie, rugby player 26 June – Paddy Coupar, rugby player 27 June – Sam Claflin, actor July thumb|upright|100px|Dan Smith thumb|upright|100px|Charlie Clemmow 1 July – Sonoya Mizuno, Japanese-born actress, model, and ballerina 3 July – Chris Bush, playwright and artistic director 4 July Marvin Bartley, footballer Julia Beckett, Olympic swimmer 10 July Tom Richards, squash player Scott Westgarth, boxer (d. 2018) 11 July Derek Carcary, footballer Ian Cathro, football coach 14 July – Dan Smith, singer 16 July – James Drury, English-born Virgin Islands footballer 17 July – William Easton, footballer 21 July Michael Collins, rugby player Rebecca Ferguson, soul singer/songwriter 22 July – Robert Campbell, footballer 24 July – Alissa Firsova, Russian-born classical composer, pianist, and conductor 25 July Kate Butters, basketball player Alan Clyne, squash player 26 July – Mathew Birley, footballer 29 July – FuntCase, DJ and dubstep producer 31 July – Charlie Clemmow, actress August thumb|upright|100px|Teddy Sinclair thumb|upright|100px|Zuby thumb|upright|100px|PAC thumb|upright|100px|Florence Welch 1 August Damien Allen, footballer Daisy May Cooper, actress and writer 3 August – Rebekah Cook, motorcycle trials rider 4 August – Leon Camier, motorcycle racer 5 August – Jamie Baker, tennis player 6 August – Nick Brodie, coxswain 9 August Robert Adcock, badminton player Aled Brew, rugby player 10 August – Ross Burkinshaw, boxer 15 August Teddy Sinclair, singer/songwriter 16 August Danny Ayres, speedway racer (d. 2020) Niki Birrell, Paralympic sailor 19 August Rachael Burford, rugby player Zuby, rapper 20 August Grant Anderson, footballer Kerry Barr, curler Steven Campbell, footballer Andrew Surman, footballer 22 August James Frost, guitarist, keyboardist and backing vocalist for The Automatic Bobby Cole Norris, television personality PAC, wrestler 24 August Jonny Cocker, racing driver Jamie Cox, boxer 27 August – Laura Bates, feminist writer 28 August Stuart Bithell, Olympic sailor Paul Crook, rugby player Florence Welch, English singer/songwriter 30 August – Theo Hutchcraft, pop musician September thumb|upright|100px|Jodie Turner-Smith thumb|upright|100px|Alfie Allen 1 September – Theo Burrell, antiques expert and broadcaster (d. 2026) 6 September Daniel Dillon, footballer Phil Doughty, footballer 7 September Charlie Daniels, footballer Jodie Turner-Smith, actress and model 11 September – Adam Dixon, hockey player 12 September Alfie Allen, actor Akwasi Fobi-Edusei, footballer Dawn Foster, journalist, broadcaster, and author (d. 2021) 13 September – Darren Daniel, rugby player 14 September Paul Brannigan, actor Joel Byrom, footballer 15 September – Jenna McCorkell, figure skater 16 September – Hasib Hussain, Islamic terrorist, murders 13 people during 7 July 2005 London bombings (suicide 2005) 17 September Jack Adams, rugby union player (d. 2021) Rob Elvins, footballer Ashley Foyle, footballer Sophie, Scottish songwriter and record producer (d. 2021) 18 September Cammy Bell, footballer and coach Keeley Hazell, model 22 September Casisdead, rapper and MC Ryan Dicker, footballer Steven Findlay, rugby player 23 September – Lisa Farnell, Canadian-born curler 25 September – Josh Bateman, rugby player 26 September – Martin Cranie, footballer 27 September Efe Echanomi, Nigerian-born footballer Greg Fleming, footballer 29 September – Cerith Flinn, actor October thumb|upright|100px|Sam Foley thumb|upright|100px|Emilia Clarke thumb|upright|100px|Oliver Jackson-Cohen thumb|upright|100px|John Ruddy 1 October Paul Edwards, boxer Carl Finnigan, footballer Danny Francis, footballer 2 October – Tom Hudson, actor 3 October Alex Ball, cricketer Calum Forrester, rugby player 4 October – Gary Boyd, golfer 6 October – Michael Eilberg, dressage rider 8 October Louis Dodds, footballer George Flanagan, rugby player 9 October – Sam Ashton, footballer 10 October Jamie Conlan, boxer Matty Dale, rugby player Lucy Griffiths, actress 13 October Gabby Agbonlahor, footballer Beth Croft, Christian musician 14 October Matt Bulman, footballer Tom Craddock, footballer 15 October – Tommy Forecast, footballer 16 October – Craig Pickering, sprinter 17 October – Sam Foley, footballer 18 October – Aidan Collins, footballer 19 October – Anthony England, rugby player 20 October Charlie Brown, singer/songwriter Charlie Duffell, cricketer Ryan Esders, rugby player 21 October – Keith Barker, cricketer 22 October John Boyle, footballer Phil Burleigh, rugby player Dale Roberts, footballer (d. 2010) 23 October Emilia Clarke, actress Lee Costello, motorcycle racer 24 October Will Bragg, cricketer Oliver Jackson-Cohen, actor John Ruddy, footballer November thumb|upright|100px|Nick Aldis thumb|upright|100px|Oliver Sykes thumb|upright|100px|Sam Palladio 2 November – Cherrelle Fennell, Olympic gymnast 3 November Scott Armstrong, rugby player Antonia Thomas, actress 4 November – Seve Benson, golfer 6 November Nick Aldis, wrestler Craig Bryson, footballer 8 November Draft, electronic music producer, DJ and songwriter Jamie Roberts, rugby player 10 November – Travis Binnion, English-born Irish footballer and cricketer 13 November Kevin Bridges, stand-up comedian Adam Cox, gymnast 14 November Richard Buck, sprinter Matt Cook, rugby player Ashley Fuller, footballer 15 November Jamie Chestney, bowler Jared Hodgkiss, footballer 16 November Anthony Crolla, boxer Ayden Duffy, footballer 17 November Matt Barron, rugby player Greg Rutherford, Olympic track-and-field athlete 18 November – Richard Strachan, personal trainer and sprinter 19 November – Sam Betty, rugby player 20 November – Oliver Sykes, vocalist and frontman for Bring Me the Horizon 21 November Tom Cahill, footballer Sam Palladio, actor and musician 22 November Jack Blumenau, actor Paul Dixon, footballer 23 November – Liam Davis, footballer 25 November – Louise Alder, lyric soprano 26 November – Nathan Craze, hockey player 27 November Sammy Dobson, actress George Eaton, journalist 28 November Dan Carden, politician Helen Wood, TV personality 29 November – Joe Colbeck, footballer December thumb|upright|100px|Sean Edwards thumb|upright|100px|Kit Harington thumb|upright|100px|Ellie Goulding thumb|upright|100px|Faye Marsay 1 December Michael Bakare, footballer Natasha O'Keeffe, actress Andrew Tate, internet personality 2 December – Adam Le Fondre, footballer 5 December – Leigh Alderson, ballet dancer 6 December – Sean Edwards, racing driver (d. 2013) 8 December Lara Carroll, English-born Australian Olympic swimmer Amir Khan, boxer Dale Appleby, cyclist 10 December – Matthew Bates, footballer 11 December Gary Carr, actor, dancer, and musician Kris Doolan, footballer Lee Peltier, footballer 12 December Sean Clohessy, footballer Ayden Faal, rugby player Jo Fraser, painter 13 December – Ben Evans, golfer 14 December Phil Boulton, rugby player Ryan Dickson, footballer 18 December Eku Edewor, actress, television presenter, and model Harry Fry, racehorse trainer 19 December Calvin Andrew, footballer Dale Appleby, cyclist 20 December Ian Bibby, cyclist Benjamin Brierley, English-born German rugby player Chris Cornes, footballer 23 December – Tom Birchall, motorcycle-with-sidecar racer 25 December – Doug Loft, footballer (d. 2026) 26 December Josh Beech, English-born American singer/songwriter Nichola Burley, actress Emily Fleeshman, actress Kit Harington, actor 27 December – Liam Craig, footballer 28 December – Hannah Elsy, rower 30 December Nikki Brammeier, cyclist Ellie Goulding, singer Faye Marsay, actress Date Unknown thumb|upright|100px|Caroline Bird thumb|upright|100px|Floating Points Alice Birch, playwright and screenwriter Caroline Bird, poet, playwright and author Brian Blackwell, convicted murderer Joe Borg, screenwriter Millie Brown, performance artist Hugh Brunt, music conductor Jen Calleja, writer and literary translator Poppy Corbett, playwright Thomas Crowther, professor of ecology at ETH Zurich and co-chair of the advisory board for the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration Deckscar, DJ and music producer Ryan Edgar, footballer Laura Evans, snooker player Martin Paul Eve, academic, writer and disability rights campaigner Floating Points, electronic music producer, DJ and musician Katrina Forrester, political theorist and historian Danny Fox, artist Martha Spurrier, human rights lawyer Deaths January thumb|upright|135px|Christopher Isherwood thumb|upright|135px|Phil Lynott 1 January Lord David Cecil, historian and biographer (born 1902) Kenneth de Burgh Codrington, archaeologist (born 1899) 2 January Sir John Howard, civil engineer (born 1901) Patrick Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, 4th Baron Derwent, peer (born 1901) 3 January John Cronin, Labour politician (born 1916) Dustin Gee, comedian (born 1942) 4 January Christopher Isherwood, novelist (born 1904) Phil Lynott, Irish singer, Thin Lizzy frontman (born 1949) 5 January Sir John Barlow, 2nd Baronet, politician (born 1898) Thomas Heathcote, actor (born 1917) 8 January Basil Fitzherbert, 14th Baron Stafford, peer (born 1926) Sidney Harrison, composer and pianist (born 1903) Mansel Thomas, Welsh composer (born 1909) 9 January – W. S. Graham, Scottish poet (born 1918) 10 January – Martin Stevens, Conservative politician (born 1929) 11 January – Sid Chaplin, author and screenwriter (born 1916) 16 January Sir Bill Richardson, journalist (born 1909) Peter Waterman, boxer (born 1934) 20 January Sidney Barton, Labour politician (born 1909) Stanley George Browne, medical missionary (born 1907) Alex Munro, Scottish comedian (born 1911) Elizabeth Nickell-Lean, opera singer (born 1908) 21 January Sir Gordon MacMillan, Scottish Army general (born 1897) Gilbert Roberts, Royal Navy captain (born 1900) 22 January Scott Dobson, art critic and writer (born 1918) Thomas Baden Morris, author (born 1900) 24 January – John Vaughan Wilkes, educationalist (born 1902) 26 January – Nicholas Moore, poet (born 1918) 27 January Arthur Llewellyn Basham, historian and Indologist (born 1914) Robert Fraser, art dealer (born 1937) George Wade, potter (born 1891) February 1 February – Dick James, singer and record producer (born 1920) 4 February – Herbert Smith, film producer (born 1901) 6 February – Frederick Coutts, Salvation Army officer (born 1899) 7 February – Dick Southwood, Olympic rower (born 1906) 10 February – Brian Aherne, actor (born 1902) 14 February – Edmund Rubbra, composer (born 1901) 15 February – Harry Hall, botanist (born 1906) 17 February – Nesta Wells, first woman police surgeon in the United Kingdom (born 1892) 21 February – Margaret Hunter, Scottish communist (born 1922) 22 February Tom Bradshaw, Scottish footballer (born 1904) Anthony Rawlinson, civil servant (born 1926) 23 February – Beatrix Thomson, actress (born 1900) 26 February – Charles Gibson Connell, Scottish ornithologist (born 1899) 27 February – Nancy Brysson Morrison, author (born 1903) 28 February – Sir Thomas Williams, Labour politician (born 1915) March thumb|upright|135px|Tommy Farr thumb|upright|135px|John Bagot Glubb 1 March – Tommy Farr, Welsh boxer (born 1913) 4 March Edward MacLysaght, British-born Irish genealogist (born 1887) John Spence, Conservative politician (born 1920) 5 March – Basil McFarland, Northern Irish politician and businessman (born 1898) 6 March – Robert Bateson, RAF air marshal (born 1912) 10 March E. Gwyndaf Evans, Welsh poet (born 1913) Ray Milland, actor (born 1907) Elizabeth Monroe, historian (born 1905) 12 March – James Maurice Scott, explorer and writer (born 1906) 14 March John Fulton, Baron Fulton, civil servant (born 1902) Audrey Williamson, theatre critic (born 1913) 15 March – Martin Cooper, musicologist (born 1910) 16 March George Jackson, film animator (born 1921) Sir John Nicholson, 3rd Baronet, surgeon (born 1904) Sir Ouvry Lindfield Roberts, Army general (born 1898) 17 March – Sir John Bagot Glubb, general and author, leader of the Arab Legion (1939–1956) (born 1897) 19 March Elisabeth Barker, journalist and civil servant (born 1910) Phil Rees, greyhound trainer (born 1914) 22 March – Jimmy Jones, tennis player (born 1912) 21 March – Derek Farr, actor (born 1912) 23 March – Sir Walter Merton, RAF air marshal (born 1905) 26 March – Andrew Freeth, artist (born 1912) 29 March – Elizabeth Williams, educationist (born 1895) 30 March – Beatrice White, scholar (born 1902) 31 March – Christopher Lloyd, naval historian (born 1906) April thumb|upright|135px|Peter Pears thumb|upright|135px|Wallis, Duchess of Windsor 1 April – Margaret Masterman, linguist (born 1910) 3 April – Peter Pears, tenor (born 1910) 7 April – William Homan Thorpe, zoologist (born 1902) 11 April Lady Penelope Betjeman, travel writer and wife of Sir John Betjeman (born 1910) Sir Ronald Gould, trade unionist (born 1904) Ethel Haythornthwaite, environmental campaigner (born 1894) 15 April – Sir Edmund Hakewill-Smith, Army major-general (born 1896) 17 April – George Baillie-Hamilton, 12th Earl of Haddington, peer (born 1894) 19 April – James Carne, Army colonel (born 1906) 23 April Sir Charles Johnston, diplomat and translator (born 1912) Jim Laker, cricketer (born 1922) 24 April – Wallis, Duchess of Windsor (born 1896) 25 April – Sir Michael Creswell, diplomat (born 1929) 26 April Bessie Love, actress (born 1898, United States) Richard Ernest Wycherley, archaeologist (born 1909) 28 April – Denis Arnold, musicologist (born 1926) 29 April – Glen Byam Shaw, actor and theatre director (born 1904) 30 April – Robert Stevenson, filmmaker (born 1905) May thumb|upright|135px|Manny Shinwell, Baron Shinwell thumb|upright|135px|Dora Russell 1 May Hylda Baker, actress (born 1905) Alastair McIntyre, film editor (born 1927) 4 May – C. H. V. Sutherland, numismatist (born 1908) 8 May Ernle Bradford, historian (born 1922) Manny Shinwell, Baron Shinwell, trade union official and Labour MP (born 1884) Sir Arthur Peterson, civil servant (born 1916) 14 May – William Lindsay, actor (born 1945) 18 May Robert Page Arnot, Communist journalist and politician (born 1890) James Phemister, geologist (born 1893) 21 May – Kenny Carter, motorcycle racer (born 1961; suicide) 23 May – Edward Hart, paediatrician (born 1911) 24 May – Robert Holmes, television scriptwriter (born 1926) 25 May Owen Hood Phillips, lawyer (born 1907) John Verney, 20th Baron Willoughby de Broke, peer (born 1896) 26 May Peggy Ann Clifford, actress (born 1921) Harold W. Fisher, philatelist (born 1903) 31 May – Dora Russell, author and campaigner, second wife of Bertrand Russell (born 1894) June thumb|upright|135px|Anna Neagle thumb|upright|135px|Lady Diana Cooper 2 June – Jimmy Grafton, radio and television producer (born 1916) 3 June Dame Anna Neagle, actress (born 1904) John Gilmour, botanist (born 1906) 4 June – Helen Gardner, literary critic (born 1908) 6 June Dick Rowe, record producer (born 1921) Tony Wright, actor (born 1925) 8 June – Thomas Burrow, Indologist (born 1909) 10 June – Reginald Lawson Waterfield, astronomer (born 1900) 11 June – Frank Cousins, Labour politician (born 1904) 12 June – John Steven Watson, historian (born 1916) 16 June – Lady Diana Cooper, aristocrat and actress (born 1892) 17 June – Joseph Stone, Baron Stone, physician (born 1903) 19 June – John Buxton Hilton, crime writer (born 1921) 23 June Sir Moses Finley, classical scholar (born 1912 in the United States) Charles Ritchie Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen, judge (born 1908) Nigel Stock, actor (born 1919) 24 June – George Howe, actor (born 1900) 25 June Laurie Fishlock, cricketer and footballer (born 1907) Dame Mary Welsh, airwoman (born 1896) 26 June – William Lovelock, composer (born 1899) 29 June Sir Desmond Pond, psychiatrist (born 1919) Kenyon Taylor, inventor (born 1908) Cliff Townshend, jazz musician (born 1916) July thumb|upright|135px|Robert Boothby, Baron Boothby 1 July E. E. Y. Hales, historian (born 1908) Iain Sutherland, diplomat (born 1925) Roger Cuthbert Wakefield, surveyor (born 1906) 5 July – Sir John Toothill, industrialist (born 1908) 9 July – Sir Percy Edward Kent, geologist (born 1913) 12 July – Dermod MacCarthy, paediatrician (born 1911) 16 July Robert Boothby, Baron Boothby, Conservative politician (born 1900) Stephen Coulter, novelist (born 1914) Dick Crawshaw, Baron Crawshaw of Aintree, politician (born 1917) 18 July – Sir Stanley Rous, president of FIFA and former secretary of the Football Association (born 1894) 23 July – Bryan Matthews, physiologist (born 1906) 25 July – John Coldham, cricketer and coach (born 1901) 27 July – Sir Osbert Lancaster, cartoonist (born 1908) 28 July – Sir Frank Simpson, Army general (born 1899) 29 July Richard David Barnett, archaeologist (born 1909) Gordon Mills, musician and songwriter (born 1935) 30 July – Sir Clarence Bird, Army lieutenant-general, oldest British general of World War II (born 1885) 31 July Diana King, actress (born 1918) Harold Woolley, Baron Woolley, farmer (born 1905) August thumb|upright|135px|Beryl Markham thumb|upright|135px|Henry Moore 1 August Susan Jellicoe, gardener and garden designer (born 1907) Lena Kennedy, novelist (born 1914) 3 August – Beryl Markham, British-born Kenyan pilot and author (born 1902) 9 August – Cyril Plant, trade unionist (born 1910) 12 August – Dame Adelaide Doughty, civil servant (born 1908, Australia) 15 August – John Trevelyan, film censor (born 1903) 16 August – Sonia Rosemary Keppel, socialite and grandmother of Queen Camilla (born 1900) 17 August – Sir Charles Loewen, Army general (born 1900, Canada) 18 August – Vivian Stuart, author (born 1914) 19 August Hermione Baddeley, actress (born 1906) Wilfred Beaver, World War I air ace (born 1897) James Broom Millar, media executive (born 1909) 21 August – Samuel Crooks, Northern Irish Anglican prelate (born 1920) 25 August Walter John Christie, civil servant in India (born 1905) Henry Neville Southern, ornithologist (born 1908) 26 August – Elsie M. Burrows, botanist and phycologist (born 1913) 29 August – Stuart Young, accountant (born 1934) 31 August – Henry Moore, sculptor (born 1898) September thumb|upright|135px|Neil Robinson 1 September Tina Cooper, paediatrician (born 1918) R. B. Freeman, zoologist (born 1915) 2 September Philip Herries Gregory, mycologist (born 1907) Philip Radcliffe, composer (born 1905) 3 September – Horace King, Baron Maybray-King, Labour politician (born 1901) 6 September – Fred Taggart, golfer (born 1906) 9 September – Robert Shackleton, philologist and librarian (born 1919) 10 September – Ronnie Shade, Scottish golfer (born 1938) 11 September – Noel Streatfeild, children's author (born 1895) 12 September Philip Ingress Bell, judge and Conservative politician (born 1900) Terence MacDonagh, oboist (born 1908) Harold Moody, athlete (born 1913) 13 September – Neil Robinson, Northern Irish motorcycle racer (born 1962; accident while training) 15 September – William Goode, colonial administrator (born 1907) 17 September – Pat Phoenix, actress (born 1923) 18 September – Elwyn Davies, Welsh civil servant (born 1908) 20 September – Dennis Spooner, television scriptwriter (born 1932) 22 September – Janet Davies, actress (born 1927) 23 September – Vincent Lloyd-Jones, Welsh judge (born 1901) 24 September – Prudence Glynn, fashion designer (born 1935) 28 September – Denis Carey, actor (born 1909) 29 September – Sir Reg Goodwin, Labour politician (born 1902) October thumb|upright|135px|Mary Cholmondeley, Lady Delamere 3 October – Terry Pitt, political advisor (born 1937) 5 October Timothy Creasey, Army general (born 1922) Mairin Mitchell, journalist, author and translator (born 1895)https://www.francisfrith.com/uk/ambleside/mairin-mitchell_458073664 Mairin Mitchell : A memory of Ambleside www.francisfrith.com 20 January 2024 James H. Wilkinson, mathematician (born 1919) 10 October – Mary Cholmondeley, Lady Delamere, socialite (born 1906) 11 October – John Crockett, television director (born 1918) 13 October Maidie Andrews, actress (born 1893) Eunice Crowther, singer, dancer and choreographer (born 1916) 15 October – Marcus Samuel, 3rd Viscount Bearsted, peer and executive (born 1909) 16 October Jeanne MacKenzie, author (born 1922) Hugh Austin Windle Pilkington, philanthropist (born 1942) Ted Sagar, footballer (born 1910) 18 October Billy Bennington, dulcimer player (born 1900) Alan Little, sociologist (born 1934) 23 October Ronald Long, actor (born 1911) Conrad O'Brien-ffrench, Secret Intelligence officer (born 1893) 27 October – Alan Branscombe, jazz musician (born 1936) 28 October John Braine, novelist (born 1922) Sir Richard Elton Goodwin, Army officer (born 1908) Ian Marter, actor and writer (born 1944) November thumb|upright|135px|Hugh Stockwell 3 November – Sir William Lawrence, 4th Baronet, businessman (born 1913) 4 November – John Kelsall, composer (born 1947) 6 November – Howard Thomas, Welsh radio producer (born 1909) 7 November – Sir Dugald Baird, physician (born 1899) 8 November – Harry W. Holmes, Esperantist (born 1896) 10 November Alan Kennington, novelist (born 1906) Mark Lubbock, composer (born 1898) 11 November – Reginald Brettauer Fisher, biochemist (born 1907) 14 November – Arthur Duckworth, Conservative politician (born 1901) 17 November – Billy McLean, Scottish Conservative politician (born 1918) 19 November – Billy Dainty, actor, comedian and dancer (born 1927) 22 November – Malcolm Nokes, Olympic athlete (born 1897) 23 November Crawford Fairbrother, Scottish athlete (born 1936) Derek Hart, actor and radio presenter (born 1925) 27 November L. Harrison Matthews, zoologist (born 1901) Sir Hugh Stockwell, Army general in the Suez Crisis (born 1903) 29 November Ronald Baddiley, actor (born 1922) Cary Grant, actor (born 1904) December thumb|upright|135px|Elsa Lanchester thumb|upright|135px|Harold Macmillan 1 December – Robert Lee, actor (born 1913, China) 4 December – H. de C. Hastings, architect (born 1902) 7 December – Sir Terence Garvey, diplomat (born 1915) 8 December – John Melville, artist (born 1902) 10 December – Kenneth Hyde, historian (born 1930) 11 December – Geoffrey S. S. Ludford, mathematician (born 1928) 13 December Heather Angel, actress (born 1909) Glyn Daniel, Welsh archaeologist (born 1914) 15 December – David James, Conservative politician (born 1919) 17 December J. F. Hendry, poet (born 1912) Leonard Rochford, World War I air ace (born 1896) 18 December – James Smith, anaesthetist (born 1917) 19 December Verona Conway, botanist (born 1910) Archibald Gordon MacGregor, geologist (born 1894, Canada) 20 December Alexander Isserlis, civil servant (born 1922) Sir Harry Platt, surgeon (born 1886) 21 December Gilbert Laithwaite, diplomat (born 1894) Bill Simpson, actor (born 1931) 22 December – David Penhaligon, Liberal MP (car accident) (born 1944) 24 December Guy Barnett, Labour politician (born 1928) Sir Eric Malcolm Jones, intelligence officer (born 1907) Arnold Kettle, literary critic (born 1916) 26 December – Elsa Lanchester, actress (born 1902) 27 December – George Dangerfield, historian (born 1904) 29 December – Harold Macmillan, former Prime Minister (born 1894) 31 December – Sir Geoffrey Audley Miles, senior Royal Navy admiral and veteran of both world wars (born 1890) Date Unknown Robina Addis, psychiatric social worker (died 1986)http://wellcomelibrary.org/collections/digital-collections/mental-healthcare/robina-addis/ Robina Addis Wellcome Library London 2017-10-21 See also 1986 in British music 1986 in British television List of British films of 1986 References 1986 Category:Years of the 20th century in the United Kingdom United Kingdom