1971 in the United Kingdom

none September 2020 February 2012 1971 Constituent countries of the United Kingdom England Northern Ireland Scotland Wales Popular culture 1971 British Grand Prix 1971 English cricket season Football: England Scotland 1971 in British television 1971 in British music 1971 in British radio UK in the Eurovision Song Contest 1971 Events from the year 1971 in the United Kingdom. The year was marked by the introduction of decimal currency. yes center 3 Incumbents Monarch – Elizabeth II Prime Minister – Edward Heath (Conservative) Events January 1 January – The Divorce Reform Act 1969 came into effect in England and Wales, allowing couples to divorce after a separation of two years (five if only one of them agrees). A divorce can also be granted on the grounds that the marriage has irretrievably broken down, and it is not essential for either partner to prove "fault".https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/sep/19/divorce-law-history The Guardian A brief history of divorce 19 September 2009 2010-07-06 London It was revealed on 19 January 1972 that the number of divorces in the United Kingdom during 1971 exceeded 100,000 for the first time. 2 January – Ibrox disaster: a stairway crush at the Rangers vs. Celtic football match at Ibrox Stadium in Glasgow killed 66 and left many more injured.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/2/newsid_2478000/2478305.stm 1971: Sixty-six die in Scottish football disaster BBC News 2008-02-02 2 January 1971 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307113132/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/2/newsid_2478000/2478305.stm 7 March 2008 live 3 January – BBC Open University broadcasts began. 8 January – Tupamaros kidnapped Geoffrey Jackson, British ambassador to Uruguay, in Montevideo; they kept him captive until September. 12 January – The Hertfordshire house of Robert Carr, Secretary of State for Employment, was bombed. Nobody was injured.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/12/newsid_2523000/2523465.stm 1971: British minister's home bombed BBC News 2008-02-02 12 January 1971 https://web.archive.org/web/20080116013143/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/12/newsid_2523000/2523465.stm 16 January 2008 live On 14 January, "The Angry Brigade", an extremist group, admitted responsibility for this bombing, as well as planting a bomb at the Department of Employment offices at Westminster. 20 January – The first ever postal workers' strike took place, led by UPW General Secretary Tom Jackson, in an attempt to win a 19.5% pay rise. 21 January – After collapsing in March 1969, a newly reconstructed Emley Moor transmitter in West Yorkshire started transmitting again. Now a concrete tower, at 1084 feet (330.4m), it is the United Kingdom's tallest freestanding structure. 23 January – The first Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, in Singapore, gave the United Kingdom permission to sell weapons to South Africa.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/23/newsid_2795000/2795585.stm 1971: Britain allowed to sell arms to S Africa BBC News 2008-02-02 23 January 1971 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307113136/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/23/newsid_2795000/2795585.stm 7 March 2008 live February 1 February – The Broadcast receiver licence was abolished for radios and stamp duty abolished on cheques, receipts and promissory notes.By Finance Act 1970 – The Times 15 December 1970. 3 February – Tyneside-set British crime film Get Carter starring Michael Caine premièred (in Los Angeles). 4 February – Rolls-Royce went bankruptPenguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006 and was nationalised. 11 February – The UKalong with the USA, the USSR and otherssigned the Seabed Treaty, outlawing nuclear weapons on the ocean floor. 15 February Decimalisation: Decimal Day: the UK and the Republic of Ireland both switched to decimal currency. Enoch Powell predicted an "explosion" unless there was a massive repatriation scheme for the immigrants. 24 February – Home Secretary Reginald Maudling announced the Immigration Bill that was set to strip Commonwealth immigrants of their right to remain in the United Kingdom.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/24/newsid_2518000/2518513.stm 1971: UK restricts Commonwealth migrants 24 February 1971 The bill was supported by Enoch Powell, but the former shadow cabinet minister continued to demand a massive voluntary repatriation scheme for the immigrants.http://www.whitewolves.org.uk/pages/Enoch%20Powell.htm The best prime minister, Britain never had! www.whitewolves.org.uk 13 January 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20050211011452/http://www.whitewolves.org.uk/pages/Enoch%20Powell.htm 11 February 2005 dead March 1 March An estimated 120,000 to 250,000 "kill the bill" protesters went on strike against the 1971 Industrial Relations Act in London.When the Lights Went Out: Britain in the Seventies London Faber 2009 59 Andy Beckett 978-0-571-22136-3 The Vehicle & General insurance company collapsed leaving 500,000 motorists uninsured.Insurer Fails in Britain; 500000 Drivers Affected The New York Times 2 March 1971 7 March – Following the recent protests in London, some 10,000 striking workers protested in Glasgow against the Industrial Relations Bill. 8 March – The national postal workers' strike ended after 47 days. Among alternatives privately offered during the strike was the Vectis postal service.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/8/newsid_2516000/2516343.stm 1971: Post strike ends with pay deal BBC News 2008-02-02 8 March 1971 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307053911/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/8/newsid_2516000/2516343.stm 7 March 2008 live April 1 April – The United Kingdom lifted all restrictions on gold ownership with the Exchange Control (Gold Coins Exemption) Order 1971.Joseph Whitaker An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord J. Whitaker 1993 612 Since 1966 British citizens had been banned from holding more than four gold coins or from buying any new ones unless they held a licence. 11 April – Ten British Army soldiers were injured in rioting in Derry, Northern Ireland. 15 April – The planned Barbican Centre in London was given the go-ahead. 18 April – There was a serious fire at Kentish Town West railway station. The station remained closed until 5 October 1981. 19 April – Unemployment reached a post-Second World War high of nearly 815,000. 27 April Eight members of the Welsh Language Society went on trial for destroying English language road signs in Wales.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/27/newsid_2953000/2953265.stm 1971: Protest disrupts Welsh language trial BBC News 2008-02-02 27 April 1971 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307113152/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/27/newsid_2953000/2953265.stm 7 March 2008 live British Leyland launched the Morris Marina which succeeded the Minor (a smaller model, production of which ceased after 23 years with 1.6 million sold) and Oxford models and was similar in size to the Ford Cortina (to which it had been designed as a direct competitor), Vauxhall Victor and Hillman Hunter. It had 1.3 and 1.8 litre petrol engines, rear-wheel drive and a choice of four-door family saloon and two-door coupé body styles, with a five-door estate set to follow in the next two years.Euan Taylor Morris Marina comes in 10 versions https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Bu1AAAAAIBAJ&pg=6301,8093696&dq=morris-marina&hl=en Evening Times Glasgow 1971-04-27 15 2014-05-12 May 1 May A bomb planted by the Angry Brigade exploded in the Biba Kensington store.Andrew Andrew Marr Marr A History of Modern Britain London Macmillan 2007 978-1-4050-0538-8 330 The Daily Mail appeared as a broadsheet newspaper for the last time, being relaunched the following day as a tabloid. 8 May – Arsenal won the FA Cup final with a 2–1 win over Liverpool at Wembley Stadium. Eddie Kelly became the first substitute to score in an FA Cup final, and it was only the second time this century (and the fourth time ever) that an English team has completed the double of the Football League First Division and the FA Cup. 11 May – The Daily Sketch, the United Kingdom's oldest tabloid newspaper, was withdrawn from circulation after 62 yearshttps://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/11/newsid_2860000/2860297.stm 1971: Britain's oldest tabloid closes BBC News 2008-02-02 11 May 1971 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307113052/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/11/newsid_2860000/2860297.stm 7 March 2008 live and absorbed by the Daily Mail. 20 May – Chelsea F.C., last year's FA Cup winners, won the European Cup Winners' Cup with a 2–1 win over Real Madrid of Spain in Athens, Greece.Chelsea 2–1 Real Madrid http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/archive/1971-European-Cup-Winners-Cup-final-replay-Chelsea-2-1-Real-Madrid-unseen-pictures-of-Peter-Osgood-John-Dempsey-Peter-Bonetti-and-co-plus-original-Daily-Mirror-match-reports-and-features-from-the-time-article73643.html Mirror Football Daily Mirror 2013-01-21 23 May – Jackie Stewart won the Monaco Grand Prix. June 7 June – The children's show Blue Peter buried a time capsule in the grounds of BBC Television Centre, due to be opened on the first episode of the year 2000. 14 June The first Hard Rock Cafe opened near Hyde Park Corner in London. Education Secretary Margaret Thatcher's proposals to end free school milk for children aged over seven years were backed by a majority of 33 MPs. 15 June Several Labour run councils threatened to increase rates in order to continue the free supply of milk to school children aged over seven years, in reaction to Thatcher's plans to end free milk supply to school children of that age group. Thatcher defended her plans, saying that the change would free more money to be spent on the construction of new school buildings.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/15/newsid_4486000/4486571.stm BBC News 1971: Councils defy Thatcher milk ban 15 June 1971 12 April 2011 Upper Clyde Shipbuilders entered liquidation.The Times London 16 June 1971 18 58200 Provisional liquidator is appointed for Upper Clyde Shipbuilders 20 June – The United Kingdom announced that Soviet space scientist Anatoli Fedoseyev had been granted asylum. 21 June – The United Kingdom began new negotiations for EEC membership in Luxembourg. 24 June – The EEC agreed terms for the United Kingdom's proposed membership and it was hoped that the nation will join the EEC next year. 25–27 June – The first Reading Festival "of jazz and progressive music" took place. July 1 July – The film Sunday Bloody Sunday was released, one of the first mainstream British films with a bisexual theme. 6 July – Police launched a murder investigation after three French tourists were found shot dead in Cheshire.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/14/newsid_2503000/2503395.stm 1971: Suicide note reveals murder confession BBC News 2008-02-14 14 July 1971 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307113126/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/14/newsid_2503000/2503395.stm 7 March 2008 live 8 July – Two rioters were shot dead by British troops in Derry, Northern Ireland.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/8/newsid_2496000/2496479.stm 1971: British troops shoot Londonderry rioters BBC News 2008-02-02 8 July 1971 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307113312/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/8/newsid_2496000/2496479.stm 7 March 2008 live 13 July – Barlaston man Michael Bassett, 24, was found dead in his fume-filled car. Police identified him as their prime suspect in the recent triple French tourist murder in Cheshire. 14 July – The Criminal Damage Act abolished the – theoretically capital – offence of arson in royal dockyards. 22 July – A BOAC flight from London to Khartoum is ordered to land at Benghazi (Libya) where two leaders of the unsuccessful 1971 Sudanese coup d'état, travelling as passengers, are forced to leave the plane and subsequently executed.A government hijacking http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1971/1971%20-%201336.html 2011-11-13 Flight International 1971-07-29 150 https://web.archive.org/web/20120311052001/http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1971/1971%20-%201336.html 2012-03-11 live 23 July – The final section of London Underground's Victoria line, from Victoria to Brixton, was opened by Princess Alexandra. Pimlico tube station, however, was not ready in time and remained closed.Green, Oliver The London Underground - An Illustrated History Ian Allan 1988 59 0-7110-1720-4 29 July – The United Kingdom opted out of the Space Race, with the cancellation of development on its Black Arrow launch vehicle. 30 July – Upper Clyde Shipbuilders workers began to take control of the shipyards in a work-in under the leadership of Jimmy Reid.The Times London 31 July 1971 1 58238 Workers seize control of shipyard on the Clyde Ian Murray August 6 August – Chay Blyth became the first person to sail around the world east to west against the prevailing winds.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/6/newsid_2527000/2527863.stm 1971: Sailor's record 'wrong way' voyage BBC News 2008-02-02 6 August 1971 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307113105/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/6/newsid_2527000/2527863.stm 7 March 2008 live 9 August – British security forces in Northern Ireland detained hundreds of guerrilla suspects and put them into Long Kesh prison – the beginning of an internment without trial policy. Twenty died in the riots that followed, including 11 in the Ballymurphy Massacre.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/9/newsid_4071000/4071849.stm 1971: NI activates internment law BBC News 2008-02-02 9 August 1971 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307113119/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/9/newsid_4071000/4071849.stm 7 March 2008 live 11 August – Prime Minister Edward Heath participated in the British victory in the Admiral's Cup yacht race. 14 August – The Who released their critically acclaimed album Who's Next. 15 August – Showjumper Harvey Smith was stripped of his victory in the British Show Jumping Derby by judges for making a V sign.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/15/newsid_2534000/2534107.stm 1971: 'V-sign' costs rider victory BBC News 2008-02-02 15 August 1971 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307113326/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/15/newsid_2534000/2534107.stm 7 March 2008 live September 1 September – The pre-decimal penny and threepence ceased to be legal tender. 3 September – Qatar gained independence from the United Kingdom. Unlike most nearby emirates, it declined to become part of either the United Arab Emirates or Saudi Arabia. 7 September – The death toll in the Troubles of Northern Ireland reached 100 after three years with the death of 14-year-old Annette McGavigan, who was fatally wounded by a gunshot in crossfire between British soldiers and the IRA. 9 September – British ambassador Geoffrey Jackson was freed after being held captive for eight months by extreme left-wing guerrillas in Uruguay.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/9/newsid_3634000/3634352.stm 1971: British diplomat freed after eight months BBC News 2008-02-02 9 September 1971 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307113333/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/9/newsid_3634000/3634352.stm 7 March 2008 live 21 September – Television music show The Old Grey Whistle Test was aired for the first time on BBC 2. 24 September – Operation FOOT: the United Kingdom expelled 90 Soviet Union intelligence officers operating under diplomatic cover for spying, partly prompted by revelations made by KGB defector Oleg Lyalin earlier in the year; a further 15 staff on leave in the USSR were not allowed to return to the UK.Christopher Andrew (historian) Christopher Andrew The Defence of the Realm London Penguin 2009 2010 978-0-141-02330-4 565–75 October 1 October – Godfrey Hounsfield's invention, the CAT scan, was used for the first time on a hospital patient, in Wimbledon. 13 October – The British Army began destroying roads between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland as a security measure.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/13/newsid_2532000/2532449.stm 1971: Army blasts N Ireland border roads BBC News 2008-02-02 13 October 1971 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307113227/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/13/newsid_2532000/2532449.stm 7 March 2008 live 21 October A gas explosion in the town centre of Clarkston, East Renfrewshire, killed 20 people. The television drama Edna, the Inebriate Woman was shown on BBC One.Mark Duguld Edna the Inebriate Woman (1971) http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/459072/index.html screenonline BFI 2010-07-12 23 October – Two women were shot dead by soldiers in Belfast as their car failed to stop at a checkpoint.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/23/newsid_2489000/2489157.stm 1971: Two women shot at Belfast checkpoint BBC News 2008-02-02 23 October 1971 https://web.archive.org/web/20080202144819/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/23/newsid_2489000/2489157.stm 2 February 2008 live 28 October: The House of Commons voted in favour of joining the EEC by a vote of 356-244. Immigration Act 1971 restricted immigration, particularly primary immigration into the U.K., and introduced the status of right of abode into U.K. law. The United Kingdom became the sixth nation successfully to launch a satellite into orbit using its own launch vehicle, the Prospero (X-3) experimental communications satellite (built at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough), using a Black Arrow carrier rocket from Woomera Launch Area 5 in South Australia. 30 October – The Democratic Unionist Party was founded by the Rev. Ian Paisley in Northern Ireland. 31 October – A bomb, probably planted by the Angry Brigade, exploded at the top of the Post Office Tower in London.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/31/newsid_2464000/2464143.stm 1971: Bomb explodes in Post Office tower BBC News 2008-02-02 31 October 1971 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307113253/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/31/newsid_2464000/2464143.stm 7 March 2008 liveThe Angry Brigade Gordon Carr Oakland, CA PM Press 2010 978-1-60486-049-8 November Erin Pizzey established the world's first domestic violence shelter in Chiswick, London.https://books.google.com/books?id=VPPapvrJsTcC&pg=PA262 Family Violence Mildred Daley Pagelow Lloyd W. Pagelow 18 September 1984 ABC-CLIO 9780275916237 Google Bookshttps://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/aug/03/domestic-violence-refuge-crisis-women-closure-safe-houses Domestic violence refuge provision at crisis point, warn charities Sandra Laville 3 August 2014 The Guardian 9 November - An RAF Hercules crashed in Italy, killing 52 10 November – The 10-route Spaghetti Junction motorway interchange was opened north of Birmingham city centre, incorporating the A38(M) (Aston Expressway) and the southern section of the M6 motorway. The interchange would have a total of 12 routes when the final stretch of the M6 was opened the following year.M6 Junction 6 http://www.route6.co.uk/m6junction6.html route6 2014-05-12 21 June 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20140621232412/http://route6.co.uk/m6junction6.html dead 22 November – Cairngorm Plateau disaster: Five children and one adult on an expedition die of exposure in the Scottish Highlands.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/22/newsid_2549000/2549021.stm 1971: Six dead in Scottish mountain tragedy BBC News 2008-02-02 22 November 1971 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307113139/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/22/newsid_2549000/2549021.stm 7 March 2008 live December 2 December – The Queen's yearly allowance was increased from £475,000 to £980,000. 4 December – McGurk's Bar bombing: Fifteen people were killed and 17 injured in a bomb attack that destroyed a bar in Belfast, the highest death toll from a single incident in the city during "The Troubles". The Ulster Volunteer Force is believed to have been behind the bombing.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/4/newsid_3403000/3403883.stm 1971: Bomb demolishes crowded Belfast pub BBC News 2008-02-02 4 December 1971 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307113305/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/4/newsid_3403000/3403883.stm 7 March 2008 live 10 December – Dennis Gabor won the Nobel Prize in Physics "for his invention and development of the holographic method".https://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1971/ The Nobel Prize in Physics 1971 2008-02-02 16 December Banking and Financial Dealings Act passed, updating the definition of bank holidays in the U.K. Trial of the Mangrove Nine, a group of black activists, concluded with them being acquitted of the most serious charge (incitement to riot at a 1970 protest against police targeting of The Mangrove, a London Caribbean restaurant) and judicial acknowledgement of behaviour motivated by racial hatred within the Metropolitan Police.https://www.theguardian.com/law/2010/nov/29/mangrove-nine-40th-anniversary Mangrove Nine: the court challenge against police racism in Notting Hill Bunce Robin 2010-11-29 The Guardian 2017-10-25 Field, Paul London 29 December – The United Kingdom gave up its military bases in Malta. 30 December – The seventh James Bond film – Diamonds Are Forever – was released. Sean Connery, who appeared in the first five films before being succeeded by George Lazenby for On Her Majesty's Secret Service in 1969, returned to the role for one final appearance in the official series of films.Diamonds Are Forever (1971). Undated Inflation stood at a 30-year high of 8.6%.http://www.parliament.uk/commons/lib/research/rp99/rp99-020.pdf Archived copy www.parliament.uk 13 January 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20060219130455/http://www.parliament.uk/commons/lib/research/rp99/rp99-020.pdf 19 February 2006 dead The government introduced a policy of Competition and Credit Control, lifting quantitative limits on lending by retail banks and allowing them greater freedom to offer savings accounts.A History of Money from ancient times to the present day Glyn Davies rev. Cardiff University of Wales Press 1996 0-7083-1351-5 The government imposed a rent freeze. Oil overtook coal as the most consumed fuel in the United Kingdom for the first time. David Hockney's acrylic painting Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy was completed. Publications Gerda Charles's novel The Destiny Waltz (winner of the first Whitbread Award for fiction). Agatha Christie's last-written Miss Marple mystery Nemesis. E. M. Forster's novel Maurice (completed 1914 and published posthumously). Frederick Forsyth's thriller The Day of the Jackal. Roger Hargreaves' children's book Mr. Tickle, first of the Mr. Men series (10 August). Spike Milligan's comic autobiography Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall. V. S. Naipaul's novel In a Free State. Terry Pratchett's comic fantasy novel The Carpet People. Paul Scott's novel The Towers of Silence, third of the Raj Quartet. Keith Thomas' study Religion and the Decline of Magic: studies in popular beliefs in sixteenth and seventeenth century England. Births January – March January – Katharine Viner, editor-in-chief, The Guardian 1 January – Andre Marriner, football referee 12 January – Jay Burridge, artist and television presenter 15 January – Lara Cazalet, actress 20 January – Gary Barlow, singerGary Barlow https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bb2db65c0 https://web.archive.org/web/20170529053927/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bb2db65c0 dead 29 May 2017 BFI 4 May 2022 en 21 January – Alan McManus, Scottish snooker player 23 January Scott Gibbs, rugby player and sportscaster Lisa Snowdon, English television and radio presenter and fashion model 29 January – Clare Balding, broadcaster, journalist and author 30 January – Darren Boyd, actor 31 January – Patrick Kielty, Northern Irish comedian and television presenter 2 February – Michelle Gayle, singer and actress 3 February Sarah Kane, English playwright (suicide 1999) Jayne Middlemiss, television presenter 11 February – Damian Lewis, English actor 13 February – Sonia, English pop singer 16 February Amanda Holden, actress Steven Houghton, actor and singer 23 February – Melinda Messenger, television presenter and model 24 February – Nicky Hambleton-Jones, television presenter and fashion expert 27 February – Derren Brown, illusionist 1 March – Thomas Adès, English classical composer, pianist and conductor 3 March – Charlie Brooker, English satirist 6 March Claire Baker, Scottish politician Geraldine O'Rawe, Northern Irish actress 7 March – Rachel Weisz, actress 13 March – Joey Beauchamp, footballer (died 2022) 15 March – Jason Wilcox, football player and manager 19 March – Dean Smith, football player and manager 23 March Kate Dickie, Scottish actress Gail Porter, television presenter. 27 March – David Coulthard, Scottish racing driver 28 March – Sayeeda Warsi, Baroness Warsi, politician and lawyer 31 March Paul Grayson, Yorkshire cricketerThe Yorkshire County Cricket Club: 2011 Yearbook Warner David 2011 113th Great Northern Books Ilkley, Yorkshire 978-1-905080-85-4 369 Ewan McGregor, Scottish actor April – June 2 April – Jason Lewry, cricketer 3 April – Douglas Carswell, Conservative politician and MP for Harwich 11 April – John Leech, Liberal Democrat politician, shadow transport spokesperson, and MP for Manchester Withington 15 April – Kate Harbour, voice actress 16 April – Belinda Stewart-Wilson, actress 17 April – Claire Sweeney, actress 18 April Samantha Cameron, businesswoman David Tennant, Scottish actor 24 April – Adrian Simpson, television presenter 9 May Jason Lee, footballer and manager Paul McGuigan, musician and a founding member of Oasis 10 May – Simon Jack, journalist and broadcaster 17 May – Vernie Bennett, singer (Eternal) 21 May – Kevin Fong, doctor and broadcaster 23 May – George Osborne, Conservative politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and MP for Tatton 24 May – Emily Hamilton, actress 27 May Paul Bettany, actor Lee Sharpe, footballer 30 May – Shaun Bailey, Baron Bailey of Paddington, politician 3 June – Julian Sturdy, politician 5 June – Susan Lynch, Northern Irish actress 11 June Liz Kendall, English politician Pat McGrath, make-up artist 18 June – Nigel Owens, rugby union referee 20 June – Brandon Lewis, English lawyer and politician 22 June – Gary Connolly, English rugby player 25 June Neil Lennon, Northern Irish footballer Scott Maslen, English actor 28 June – Sean Dyche, English football player and manager July – September 1 July – Rosie Duffield, English politician 8 July – Neil Jenkins, Welsh rugby playerhttp://www.wru.co.uk/2634_9535.php Neil Jenkins Welsh Rugby Union 2023-03-23 2008-07-20 https://web.archive.org/web/20080720110823/http://www.wru.co.uk/2634_9535.php bot: unknown 14 July – Howard Webb, English football referee 13 July – MF Doom, British-American rapper 21 July – Charlotte Gainsbourg, British-French actress and singer 2 August Alice Evans, actress Michael Hughes, Northern Irish footballer 9 August – Kate Gerbeau, television presenter and newsreader 18 August - Aphex Twin (Richard D. James), Irish-born electronic music artist 20 August – David Walliams, comedian, actor and television personality 21 August – Liam Howlett, musician 26 August – Gaynor Faye, actress 29 August – Nicola Mendelsohn, business executive 31 August – Kirstie Allsopp, television presenter 1 September – Daniel Hannan, British Conservative politician, MEP for South East England 8 September – Martin Freeman, actor 11 September Richard Ashcroft, English musician and singer (The Verve) Clive Lewis, English politician 13 September Louise Lombard, actress. Stella McCartney, fashion designer 17 September – Parmjit Dhanda, British Labour politician, MP for Gloucester 22 September – Chesney Hawkes, English singer-songwriter 24 September – Es Devlin, set designer 25 September – Jessie Wallace, actress 28 September – Liza Walker, actress 29 September – Mackenzie Crook, English actor October – December 6 October – Emily Mortimer, British actress 8 October – David Gauke, Lord Chancellor 13 October – Sacha Baron Cohen, British comedian 14 October – Andy Cole, English footballer 16 October – Craig Phillips, British reality show star, winner of Big Brother UK in 2000 21 October – Jade Jagger, jewellery designer 29 October – Lee Mason, football referee 30 October – John Alford, British actor and singer 3 November – Alison Williamson, archerAlison Williamson - Olympic Archery Great Britain https://www.olympic.org/alison-williamson International Olympic Committee 11 April 2019 en 17 June 2016 8 November – Michael Jeffrey, English footballer 17 November – Michael Adams, chess player 18 November – Thérèse Coffey, politician 22 November Cath Bishop, British rower and Olympic medallist Kyran Bracken, Irish-born rugby union footballer 1 December – Emily Mortimer, actress 5 December – Ashia Hansen, triple jumper 7 December – DeObia Oparei, actor 14 December – Lucie Stewart, British actress 10 December – Daniel Betts, actor 23 December – Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, British socialite and television presenter (died 2017) 25 December – Dido, English pop singer 27 December – Duncan Ferguson, football player and manager Deaths January – March 12 January – John Tovey, British admiral of the fleet (born 1885) 24 January – St. John Greer Ervine, Northern Irish dramatist and author (born 1883) 28 January – Donald Winnicott, British psychoanalyst (born 1896) 6 March – Thurston Dart, English harpsichordist and conductor (born 1921) 7 March – Stevie Smith, English poet (born 1902) 16 March – Bebe Daniels, American-born actress (born 1901) April – June 20 April – Cecil Parker, English film actor (born 1897) 1 May – Violet Jessop, survivor of the sinking of the RMS Titanic (born 1887) 15 May – Sir Tyrone Guthrie, English theatre director, producer and writer (born 1900) 20 May – Waldo Williams, Welsh language poet (born 1904) 6 June – Edward Andrade, English poet and physicist (born 1887) 10 June – Michael Rennie, English actor (born 1909) 25 June – John Boyd Orr, Scottish physician and biologist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (born 1880) July – September 1 July William Lawrence Bragg, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1890) Learie Constantine, cricketer (born 1901 in Trinidad) 4 July – Sir Maurice Bowra, writer, critic and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University (1951–1954) (born 1898 in China) 13 August – Sir Barry Domvile, admiral and Nazi sympathiser (born 1878)Martin Connolly Hitler's Munich Man: The Fall of Sir Admiral Barry Domvile Barnsley Pen & Sword 2017 978-1526707079 19 July – John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever, businessman (born 1886 in the United States) 27 July – Charlie Tully, Northern Irish footballer (born 1924) 30 August – Peter Fleming, travel writer and brother of Ian Fleming (born 1907) October – December 11 November – A. P. Herbert, politician and writer (born 1890) 17 November – Gladys Cooper, actress (born 1888) 12 December Torry Gillick, Rangers F.C. winger (born 1915) Alan Morton, Rangers F.C. outside left (born 1893) 21 December – Charles C. Banks, pilot (born 1893) Undated Reg Bunn, comic book artist (born 1905) Edith Garrud, pioneer martial artist and suffragist (born 1872) See also 1971 in British music 1971 in British television List of British films of 1971 References 30em 1971 Category:Years of the 20th century in the United Kingdom Category:1970s in the United Kingdom Category:1971 by country Category:1971 in Europe