1966 in the United Kingdom

none thumb | right | The Chartist Tower was constant in 1966 October 2023 March 2022 January 2013 1966 Constituent countries of the United Kingdom England Northern Ireland Scotland Wales Popular culture 1966 British Grand Prix 1966 English cricket season Football: England Scotland 1966 in British television 1966 in British music 1966 in British radio UK in the Eurovision Song Contest 1966 Events from the year 1966 in the United Kingdom. Incumbents Monarch – Elizabeth II Prime Minister – Harold Wilson (Labour) Events January–March 3 January British Rail begins full electric passenger train services over the West Coast Main Line from Euston to Manchester and Liverpool with 100 mph -1 on operation from London to Rugby. Services officially inaugurated 18 April.Nock O. S. Oswald Nock 1965 Britain's New Railway: Electrification of the London-Midland main lines from Euston to Birmingham, Stoke-on-Trent, Crewe, Liverpool and Manchester Shepperton Ian Allan Publishing 59003738 Stop-motion children's television series Camberwick Green first shown on BBC One as part of Watch with Mother. 4 January – More than 4,000 people attend a memorial service at Westminster Abbey for the broadcaster Richard Dimbleby, who died last month aged 52. 12 January – Three British MPs visiting Rhodesia (Christopher Rowland, Jeremy Bray and David Ennals) are assaulted there by supporters of Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/12/newsid_3311000/3311019.stm UK politicians assaulted in Rhodesia 2008-02-03 12 January 1966 BBC News https://web.archive.org/web/20080117080144/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/12/newsid_3311000/3311019.stm 17 January 2008 live 20 January The Queen commutes the death sentence on a Black prisoner in Rhodesia, two months after its abolition in the UK. Radio Caroline South pirate radio ship Mi Amigo runs aground on the beach at Frinton. 21 January – The White minority-ruled regime in Rhodesia rejects the royal prerogative commuting death sentences on two Africans. 27 January – The Labour Party unexpectedly retains the parliamentary seat of Hull North in a by-election, with a swing of 4.5% to their candidate from the opposition Conservatives, and a majority up from 1,181 at the 1964 General Election to 5,351. 30 January – Action Man toy figure launched in the UK. 31 January – The United Kingdom ceases all trade with Rhodesia. 9 February – A prototype Fast Reactor nuclear reactor opens at Dounreay on the north coast of Scotland.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/9/newsid_2730000/2730083.stm New nuclear reactor for Dounreay 2008-02-03 9 February 1966 BBC News https://web.archive.org/web/20080216120425/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/9/newsid_2730000/2730083.stm 16 February 2008 live 17 February – The UK protests to South Africa over its supplying of petrol to Rhodesia. 19 February – Naval minister Christopher Mayhew resigns over a government policy to abandon an aircraft carrier project. 28 February – Harold Wilson calls a snap general election for 31 March, in hope of increasing his vulnerable single-seat majority in Parliament. 1 March – Chancellor of the Exchequer James Callaghan announces the decision to embrace decimalisation of the pound (which will be effected on 15 February 1971).https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/1/newsid_2513000/2513943.stm Britain to go decimal in 1971 2008-02-03 1 March 1966 BBC News https://web.archive.org/web/20080307123550/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/1/newsid_2513000/2513943.stm 7 March 2008 live 4 March In an interview published in the Evening Standard, John Lennon of The Beatles comments, "We're more popular than Jesus now". The UK gives recognition to the new regime in Ghana. 5 March – BOAC Flight 911 crashes in severe clear-air turbulence over Mount Fuji soon after taking off from Tokyo International Airport in Japan, killing all 124 on board.Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 978-0-14-102715-9 2006 9 March – Ronnie Kray, one of the Kray twins, shoots George Cornell (an associate of rivals The Richardson Gang) at The Blind Beggar pub in Whitechapel, East London. Cornell dies later in hospital, and Kray is finally convicted in 1969.Justice of the Peace and Local Government Review Reports https://books.google.com/books?id=mxhHAQAAIAAJ 1969 Justice of the Peace, Limited 720 10 March – The Frost Report, which launches the television careers of John Cleese, Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett and other writers and performers, is first broadcast on BBC One 11 March – Chi-Chi, London Zoo's giant panda, is flown to the Soviet Union for a union with An-An of Moscow Zoo. 20 March – Theft of football's Jules Rimet Trophy whilst on exhibition in London. 23 March – Pope Paul VI and Michael Ramsey, the Archbishop of Canterbury, meet in Rome. 27 March – Pickles, a mongrel dog, finds the FIFA World Cup Trophy wrapped in newspaper in a garden in South London. 30 March – Opinion polls show that the Labour government is on course to significantly increase its parliamentary majority at the general election tomorrow.Slight Risk for Mr. Wilson https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=OutIAAAAIBAJ&sjid=iIQMAAAAIBAJ&pg=5077,4814664&dq=opinion+poll+macmillan&hl=en Youngstown Vindicator Youngstown, Ohio 30 March 1966 2013-03-05 31 March – The Labour Party led by Harold Wilson win the general election with a landslide majority of 96 seats. At the 1964 election held just 17 months earlier, Labour had a narrow majority of five seats but subsequent by-election defeats had led to that being reduced to just one seat prior to this election.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/31/newsid_4693000/4693142.stm Harold Wilson wins sweeping victory 2008-02-03 31 March 1966 BBC News https://web.archive.org/web/20080307123541/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/31/newsid_4693000/4693142.stm 7 March 2008 live The Birmingham Edgbaston seat is retained for the Conservatives by Jill Knight in succession to Edith Pitt, the first time two female MPs have followed each other in the same constituency. April–June 1 April – Local government reorganisation sees the reduction in the number of local authorities, with many smaller urban districts and boroughs being absorbed into newly created and expanded boroughs. The reorganisation also sees a number of county boundaries altered. The West Midlands region sees some of the most notable changes, with most of Sedgley and Brierley Hill being added to an expanded Dudley borough, which also takes in the southern part of Coseley. Warley County Borough is created from the former boroughs of Oldbury, Smethwick and Rowley Regis as well as parts of Dudley, Tipton and Halesowen. Dudley is transferred from Worcestershire to Staffordshire, while Smethwick and Rowley Regis are both transferred from Staffordshire to Worcestershire. 6 April – Hoverlloyd inaugurate the first regular hovercraft service across the English Channel, from Ramsgate Harbour to Calais using passenger-carrying SR.N6 craft (discontinued in 2000 due to competition with the Channel Tunnel). 7 April – The United Kingdom asks the United Nations Security Council to use force to stop oil tankers that violate the oil embargo against Rhodesia. Authority is given on 10 April. 11 April – The Marquess of Bath, in conjunction with Jimmy Chipperfield, opens Longleat Safari Park, with "the lions of Longleat", at his Longleat House, the first such drive-through safari park outside of Africa. 15 April – Time magazine uses the phrase 'Swinging London'.Gilbert David 2006 'The Youngest Legend in History': Cultures of Consumption and the Mythologies of Swinging London The London Journal 31 1–14 10.1179/174963206X113089 159698288 free 19 April – Ian Brady and Myra Hindley go on trial at Chester Crown Court, charged with murdering two children and a teenager in the highly publicised Moors murders which came to light in October last year. The prosecution is led by the Attorney General, Sir Elwyn Jones. 30 April – Liverpool F.C. win the Football League First Division title for the second time in three seasons.http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/history/timeline/1944-1969/title-reclaimed-after-chelsea-win Title reclaimed after Chelsea win LiverpoolFC.tv 2011-05-03 1 May – The Beatles play their last conventional live concert in Britain, at the Empire Pool (Wembley) on the bill alongside The Rolling Stones and The Who. 2 May – Scottish inventor James Goodfellow obtains a patent for an automated teller machine using a plastic card and PIN.UK Patent No.1,197,183. The man who really invented the cash machine Steven Brocklehurst 2017-06-27 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-40416025 BBC News 2021-05-16 3 May – "Pirate" radio stations Swinging Radio England and Britain Radio commence broadcasting on AM with a combined potential 100,000 watts from the same ship anchored off the south coast of England in international waters. 6 May – The Moors murderers, Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, are sentenced at Chester Crown Court to life imprisonment for three child murders committed between November 1963 and October 1965 in the north west of England. Brady is guilty of all three murders and receives three concurrent terms of life imprisonment, while Hindley is found guilty of two murder charges and an accessory charge in connection to the third. She is sentenced to two concurrent life sentences alongside a seven-year fixed term.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/6/newsid_2512000/2512119.stm Moors murderers jailed for life 2008-02-03 6 May 1966 BBC News https://web.archive.org/web/20080307123454/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/6/newsid_2512000/2512119.stm 7 March 2008 live In 1986 they admit to two further child murders. Both will die in custody. 12 May – African members of the UN Security Council say that the British Army should blockade Rhodesia. 14 May – Everton F.C. defeat Sheffield Wednesday 3–2 in the FA Cup final at Wembley Stadium, overturning a 2–0 Sheffield Wednesday lead during the final 16 minutes of the game."Wembley – Saturday 14th May – Everton 3 Sheffield Wednesday 2." 16 May – A strike is called by the National Union of Seamen, ending on 29 May.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/23/newsid_2504000/2504227.stm Emergency laws over seamen's strike BBC On This Day 2008-02-03 23 May 1966 https://web.archive.org/web/20080209013952/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/23/newsid_2504000/2504227.stm 9 February 2008 live 17 May – Bob Dylan is called "Judas" during his performance at the Manchester Free Trade Hall for performing with an electric band in the second half. 18 May – Home Secretary Roy Jenkins announces that the number of police forces in England and Wales will be cut to 68. 26 May – British Guiana achieves independence from the United Kingdom, becoming Guyana.Guyana. 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Retrieved on 2008-02-03. 6 June – BBC One television sitcom Till Death Us Do Part begins its first series run. 16 June – The Beatles perform live on BBC television's Top of the Pops, the UK's major television pop music show, for the first and only time, miming to both "Paperback Writer" and its b-side, "Rain".http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/eab79562db7b467e9e4d2fb66f8fe72e https://web.archive.org/web/20141030145302/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/eab79562db7b467e9e4d2fb66f8fe72e dead 30 October 2014 Broadcast – BBC Programme Index 11 February 2022 A surviving 92-second clip is found in 2019.Footage of Beatles' only Top of the Pops live show found 29 May 2019 BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-birmingham-48450810/footage-of-beatles-only-top-of-the-pops-live-show-found 11 February 2022 23 June – The Beatles go on top of the British singles charts for the tenth time with "Paperback Writer".http://www.jpgr.co.uk/stats_no1_s.html The Guinness Book of British Hit Singles The U.K. Singles Chart Number Ones 2009 Graham Calkin's Beatles Pages 2013-03-05 The Guinness Book of British Hit Singles 29 June – Barclays introduces the Barclaycard, the first British credit card.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 424–425 978-0-7126-5616-0 July–September 3 July 31 arrests are made after a protest against the Vietnam War outside the United States Embassy in London in Grosvenor Square by around 4,000 people turns violent.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/3/newsid_2757000/2757911.stm Arrests in London after Vietnam rally 2008-02-03 3 July 1966 BBC News https://web.archive.org/web/20080307123559/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/3/newsid_2757000/2757911.stm 7 March 2008 live The Fire, Auto & Marine Insurance Company enters the liquidation process leaving 400,000 motorists uninsured.Ministers in talks on car insurance safeguards The Scotsman 5 July 1966 6 Emil Savundra will later be jailed for fraud in connection with the company's trading and collapse.Fraud: The Amazing Career of Doctor Savundra 1978 0-340-22601-3 Connell Jon Hodder & Stoughton London Douglas Sutherland Douglas Sutherland 11 July The 1966 FIFA World Cup competition, staged in England, begins. British Motor Corporation and Jaguar Cars announce plans to merge as British Motor Holdings. Scotsman Angus Barbieri ends a 382-day fast, during which he consumed only water, vitamins, salts, yeast and a small amount of milk and sugar, and achieved his aim of losing 276 lb. 12 July – Zambia threatens to leave the Commonwealth because of British peace overtures to Rhodesia. 14 July – Gwynfor Evans is elected as the Member of Parliament for Carmarthen, the first ever Plaid Cymru MP, after his victory at a by-election, overturning the previous Labour majority with an 18% swing. 15 July – West Indian-born Asquith Xavier is appointed as a guard at Euston railway station after the opposition of the local staff committee is overturned, ending a colour bar in Euston Station that is rumoured to have been in place for the last 12 years.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/15/newsid_3043000/3043439.stm Euston staff 'colour bar' ended 2008-02-03 15 July 1966 BBC News https://web.archive.org/web/20080307123432/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/15/newsid_3043000/3043439.stm 7 March 2008 live 16 July – Prime Minister Harold Wilson flies to Moscow to try to start peace negotiations over the Vietnam War. The Soviet Government rejects his ideas. 20 July – Start of six-month wage and price freeze. 22 July – Pleasure boat Prince of Wales collides with a bridge and sinks in the Mawddach Estuary, killing 15 people.George Herd https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn8n99xe7pvo My entire family went on a boat trip that they never returned from BBC News 26 July 2026 26 July 2026 26 July – Lord Gardiner issues the Practice Statement in the House of Lords stating that the House, when acting in a judicial capacity, is not bound to follow its own previous precedent. 30 July England beats West Germany 4–2 to win the 1966 World Cup at Wembley. Geoff Hurst scores a hat-trick, and Martin Peters scores the other English goal, in a game which attracts an all-time record UK television audience of more than 32 million.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/30/newsid_2644000/2644065.stm Football glory for England 2008-02-03 30 July 1966 BBC News https://web.archive.org/web/20080307005913/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/30/newsid_2644000/2644065.stm 7 March 2008 live An AEC Routemaster bus on route 7 in London catches fire near Marble Arch, but all the passengers and crew escape without injury.Marshall, Prince (1972) Wheels of London 1972 110–111 The Sunday Times Magazine 0-7230-0068-9 Retrieved 7 March 2021. 31 July – Loss of MV Darlwyne: a pleasure cruiser disappears off the coast of Cornwall with the loss of all 31 aboard.' Banks Martin The Mysterious Loss of the Darlwyne Tamar Books Exeter 2014 978-0-9574742-1-5 1 August Everton F.C. sign Blackpool's World Cup winning midfield player Alan Ball, Jr. for a national record fee of £110,000.https://www.irishtimes.com/news/tireless-footballer-who-starred-for-england-in-1966-1.1295602 Tireless footballer who starred for England in 1966 The Colonial Office merges with the Commonwealth Relations Office to form a new Commonwealth Office. 2 August – The Spanish government forbids overflights by British military aircraft. 4 August – The Kray Twins are questioned in connection with a murder in London. 5 August – The Beatles release the album Revolver.http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/b/beatles-revolvermft.shtml The Beatles, Revolver PopMatters 2008-02-03 https://web.archive.org/web/20080127144724/http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/b/beatles-revolvermft.shtml 27 January 2008 live 10 August – George Brown succeeds Michael Stewart as Foreign Secretary. 12 August – Shepherd's Bush murders: Three plain clothes policemen are shot dead in West London while investigating a suspicious vehicle in Braybrook Street. 15 August – John Whitney is arrested and charged with the Shepherd's Bush murders. 17 August – John Duddy is arrested in Glasgow and charged with the Shepherd's Bush murders. A third suspect is still at large. 18 August – Tay Road Bridge opens. 22 August – Centre Point, a 32-floor office building at St Giles Circus in London, designed by Richard Seifert for property speculator Harry Hyams, is completed. It remains empty for around a decade.Elain Harwood England: a Guide to Post-War Listed Buildings rev. London Batsford 2003 978-0-7134-8818-0 24 August – Tom Stoppard's tragicomedy Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is first staged, at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.Michael H. Hutchins A Tom Stoppard Bibliography: Chronology The Stephen Sondheim Reference Guide http://www.sondheimguide.com/Stoppard/chronology.html 14 August 2006 2008-06-23 https://web.archive.org/web/20080619060820/http://www.sondheimguide.com/Stoppard/chronology.html 19 June 2008 live 29 August – The Beatles play their very last concert, at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, California. 1 September – 98 British tourists die when Britannia Airways Flight 105 crashes in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia. 3 September – Barely five months after the death of Norwich City F.C. captain Barry Butler, a second Football League player this year dies in a car crash; 30-year-old John Nicholson, a Doncaster Rovers centre-half who previously played for Port Vale and Liverpool.http://cards.littleoak.com.au/rip_notices/rip_1970.html Death notices – Rest in Peace – 1960s and 1970s Nigel's Webspace – Galleries of English Football Cards 1965/66-1979/80 2013-03-05 5 September – Selective Employment Tax imposed. 15 September – Britain's first Polaris submarine, HMS Resolution, launched at Barrow-in-Furness.Chumbley, Stephen Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947–1995 rev. London Conway Maritime Press 1995 978-0-85177-605-7 531 17 September – Oberon submarine 1 Okanagan launched at Chatham Dockyard, the last warship to be built there. 19 September – Buster Edwards returns from Mexico to London to be arrested for involvement in the Great Train Robbery (1963). 27 September – British Motor Corporation makes 7,000 employees redundant. 30 September – The Bechuanaland Protectorate in Africa achieves independence from the UK as Botswana.The Hutchinson Factfinder Helicon 1999 978-1-85986-000-7 October–December 4 October – Basutoland becomes independent and takes the name "Lesotho". 18 October – The Ford Cortina Mk2 is launched.New Ford Cortina with more room https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=XeE9AAAAIBAJ&sjid=TEgMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3117,2780714&dq=new-ford-cortina&hl=en The Glasgow Herald 18 October 1966 6 2013-03-05 20 October – In economic news, 437,229 people are reported to be unemployed in the UK – a rise of some 100,000 on last month's figures. 21 October – Aberfan disaster in South Wales, 144 (including 116 children) are killed by a collapsing coal spoil tip.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/21/newsid_2705000/2705335.stm Coal tip buries children in Aberfan 2008-02-03 21 October 1966 BBC News https://web.archive.org/web/20080307123450/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/21/newsid_2705000/2705335.stm 7 March 2008 live 22 October British double agent George Blake escapes from Wormwood Scrubs prison; he is next seen in Moscow.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/22/newsid_3135000/3135206.stm Double-agent breaks out of jail 2008-02-03 22 October 1966 BBC News https://web.archive.org/web/20080307123607/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/22/newsid_3135000/3135206.stm 7 March 2008 live Spain demands that the United Kingdom stop military flights to Gibraltar; the UK rejects this idea the following day. 25 October – Spain closes its Gibraltar border against vehicular traffic. 29 October – Actor William Hartnell makes his last regular appearance as the First Doctor in the concluding moments of Episode 4 of the Doctor Who serial The Tenth Planet, regenerating into the Second Doctor played by Patrick Troughton at its conclusion. 5 November – 38 African states demand that the United Kingdom use force against the Rhodesian government. 9 November – The Rootes Group launches the Hillman Hunter, a four-door family saloon to compete with the BMC Farina range, Ford Cortina and Vauxhall Victor. 16 November – BBC television drama Cathy Come Home, filmed in a docudrama style, is broadcast on BBC One. Viewed by a quarter of the British population, it is considered influential on public attitudes to homelessness and the related social issues it deals with.John Corner Cathy Come Home http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/C/htmlC/cathycomeho/cathycomeho.htm Museum of Broadcast Communications 2010-06-28 https://web.archive.org/web/20130928173800/http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/C/htmlC/cathycomeho/cathycomeho.htm 28 September 2013 It was written by Jeremy Sandford, produced by Tony Garnett and directed by Ken Loach, with Carol White in the title role. 24 November Unemployment sees another short rise, now standing at 531,585. The Beatles begin recording sessions for their Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album at Abbey Road Studios in London. 30 November – Barbados achieves independence.Barbados. The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency.. Retrieved on 2008-02-03. 1 December – UK Prime Minister Harold Wilson and Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith negotiate on board HMS Tiger in the Mediterranean Sea. 12 December – Harry Roberts, John Whitney and John Duddy are sentenced to life imprisonment (each with a recommended minimum of 30 years) for the Shepherd's Bush murders of three London policemen in August. 20 December – Harold Wilson withdraws all his previous offers to the Rhodesian government and announces that he will agree to independence for the country only after the establishment of Black majority government there. 22 December – Rhodesian Prime minister Ian Smith declares that he considers that Rhodesia is already a republic. 25 December – Marionette sci-fi series Thunderbirds airs its final episode on ITV with a Christmas special. 31 December – Eight paintings worth millions of pounds are stolen from Dulwich Picture Gallery in London, but are recovered locally within a week. Undated 1966 GP Contract agreed. London School of Contemporary Dance founded. Mathematician Michael Atiyah wins a Fields Medal. The motorway network continues to grow as the existing M1, M4 (including the Severn Bridge on the border of England and Wales), and M6 motorways are expanded, and new motorways emerge in the shape of the M32 linking the M4 with Bristol, and the M74 near Hamilton in Scotland. Japanese manufacturer Nissan begins importing its range of Datsun branded cars to the United Kingdom.http://www.cameliabotnarchildrenscentre.co.uk/started.html History of the Camelia Botnar Children's Centre https://web.archive.org/web/20091016052520/http://www.cameliabotnarchildrenscentre.co.uk/started.html 16 October 2009 Publications Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot novel Third Girl. Len Deighton's spy novel Billion-Dollar Brain. Ian Fleming's James Bond short story collection Octopussy and The Living Daylights. Seamus Heaney's poetry collection Death of a Naturalist. Alistair MacLean's spy thriller When Eight Bells Toll. Mary Renault's historical novel The Mask of Apollo. Jean Rhys's novel Wide Sargasso Sea. Paul Scott's novel The Jewel in the Crown, first in the Raj Quartet. Leslie Thomas' comic novel The Virgin Soldiers. Births January–March 3 January – Martin Galway, Northern Irish composer 9 January – Stephen Metcalfe, English politician 13 January – Simon Shelton, English actor (d. 2018) 14 January – Rob Flello, lawyer and politician 25 January – Donal MacIntyre, Irish-born journalist 29 January – Keith Dublin, English footballer 31 January – Dexter Fletcher, actor and director 6 February – Rick Astley, British singer 8 February – Sarah Montague, journalist and radio host 18 February – Richard A. Collins, scientist and author 24 February – Ben Miller, English comedian, actor and director 25 February Charlie MacEwan, British Army officer Life Peers to Order of the Companion of Honour BBC News https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/special_report/1998/12/98/new_year_honours/244939.stm 31 December 1998 Robert Napper, murderer 28 February – Robert Rowland, politician (died 2021) 1 March - Paul Hollywood, chef and television presenter 2 March – David Wickham, concert pianist, musical director and conductor 3 March – Nick Rhodes, biochemist 4 March Patrick Hannan, English pop drummer with The Sundays Wash West, English-born film director 6 March – Alan Davies, comedy performer 8 March – Gregory Barker, British Conservative politician, MP for Bexhill and Battle 9 March – Melanie Dawes, civil servant 13 March – Alastair Reynolds, science fiction author 17 March – Andrew Rosindell, British Conservative politician, MP for Romford 18 March – Joanna Cherry, Scottish politician and lawyer 19 March – Nigel Clough, English footballer and football manager 22 March – Helena Morrissey, Baroness Morrissey, financier and campaigner 24 March – Mark Williams, Welsh Liberal Democrat politician, Shadow Minister for Wales and MP for Ceredigion 25 March – Anton Rogan, Northern Irish footballer 26 March Lilian Greenwood, British Labour politician, Chair of the Finance Committee and MP for Nottingham South Nick Wirth, English engineer, founder of Wirth Research 30 March – Jeremy Deller, English artist 31 March – Roger Black, English 400 m runner April–June 1 April Chris Evans, broadcast music presenterhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/3YP9wSzVrSPhq7mkN5CZkKn/chris-evans Chris Evans Breakfast Show (BBC Radio 2) Chris Evans 4 July 2016 live https://web.archive.org/web/20150627064309/http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/3YP9wSzVrSPhq7mkN5CZkKn/chris-evans 27 June 2015 Sharon Hodgson, British Labour politician, MP for Gateshead East and Washington West 2 April – Teddy Sheringham, English footballer 9 April – John Hammond, weather forecaster 10 April – Steve Claridge, English footballer 11 April – Lisa Stansfield, British soul singer 15 April Cressida Cowell, English children's author, known for novel How to Train Your Dragon Samantha Fox, British model and singerhttps://www.thetimes.com/comment/register/article/ben-shotts-almanac-for-april-2008-2j2g85h0bhm Ben Shott's Almanac for April 2008 The Times London 23 February 2018 Schott Ben 21 April – Chris Whitty, epidemiologist, Chief Medical Officer for England 29 April – Phil Tufnell, British cricketer 30 April – Pooky Quesnel, English actress 10 May – Jonathan Edwards, British athlete 15 May – Greg Wise, actor and producer 26 May Helena Bonham Carter, English actress Zola Budd, South African athlete Shona Robison, Scottish politician 27 May – Heston Blumenthal, chef and food writer 29 May – James Richardson, television presenter and journalist 4 June – Bill Wiggin, British Conservative politician, Shadow Minister for Agriculture & Fisheries and MP for Leominster 3 June – Jonathan Shaw, British Labour politician, MP for Chatham and Aylesford 7 June – Mark Ravenhill, English playwright (Shopping and Fucking) 8 June – Doris Pearson, British musician 19 June – Samuel West, British actor 22 June – Michael Park, British rally co-driver (died 2005) 24 June – Lucinda Russell, Scottish racehorse trainer July–September 8 July – Guto Harri, broadcaster and communications consultant 11 July – Melanie Appleby, singer (d. 1990) 12 July – Tamsin Greig, actress 16 July – Johnny Vaughan, journalist and critic 24 July – Martin Keown, footballer 25 July – Diana Johnson, British Labour politician, MP for Kingston upon Hull North 28 July – Paul Loughlin, English rugby player August – Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England 3 August – Thangam Debbonaire, British Labour politician, MP for Bristol West 7 August – David Cairns, Scottish Labour politician, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland and MP for Inverclyde (died 2011) 10 August – Charlie Dimmock, English TV gardening expert 12 August – Tobias Ellwood, British Conservative politician, MP for Bournemouth East 24 August – Nick Denton, English journalist and businessman, founder of Gawker Media 26 August – Shirley Manson, Scottish alternative rock singer and Garbage frontwoman 31 August – Alice Oswald, poet 7 September – Toby Jones, actor 22 September – Ruth Jones, Welsh actress 23 September – Adam Price, Welsh Plaid Cymru politician, MP for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr 29 September – Ben Miles, actor October–December 9 October – David Cameron, British Conservative Party leader, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, MP for Witney and previously Leader of the Opposition. 10 October – Tony Adams, English footballer 11 October – Stephen Williams, British Liberal Democrat politician, MP for Bristol West 15 October – Dave Stead, English drummer 17 October – Mark Gatiss, English writer and actor 20 October – Si King, English television presenter 26 October – Steve Valentine, British actor 1 November – Jeremy Hunt, British Conservative politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer 8 November – Gordon Ramsay, Scottish-born chef 10 November Vanessa Angel, English model and actresshttp://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/1780/Vanessa-Angel/biography Vanessa Angel – Biography – Movies & TV – NYTimes.com https://web.archive.org/web/20150206190510/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/1780/Vanessa-Angel/biography 2020-02-18 dead Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times Baseline & All Movie Guide Lucia Bozzola 2015 6 February 2015 Steve Mackey, English bass guitarist (died 2023)Pulp bassist Steve Mackey dies aged 56 14 November – Charles Hazlewood, English orchestral conductor 16 November – Stephen Critchlow, English actor (died 2021) 30 November Nigel Adams, English politician John Bishop, English comedian, presenter and actor David Nicholls, English novelist and screenwriter Andy Parsons, English comedian and writer 10 December Dave Harold, snooker player Martin Taylor, English soccer goalkeeper and coach 11 December – Rianna Scipio, British television host, journalist, producer and directorRianna Scipio http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2baadce95f https://web.archive.org/web/20131211143925/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2baadce95f dead 2013-12-11 explore.bfi.org.uk 2 August 2023 12 December – Ian Paisley Jr, Northern Irish politician 16 December – Dennis Wise, English footballer and football manager 21 December Martin Bayfield, rugby player, actor and stuntman Kiefer Sutherland, English-born Canadian actor 22 December – David Wright, British Labour politician, MP for Telford 25 December – Stephen Twigg, politician 27 December – Marianne Elliott, theatre director and producer 29 December – Martin Offiah, English rugby league and, briefly, rugby union footballer, active 1987–2002 Undated Matt Jarvis, psychologist Daljit Nagra, poet Deaths 20 January George Devine, theatrical manager (born 1910) Gordon Macdonald, Welsh politician, last colonial governor of Newfoundland (born 1885) 27 January – Ronald Armstrong-Jones, barrister (born 1899) 10 February – J. F. C. Fuller, army officer and strategist (born 1878) 18 February Ivy Williams, first woman called to the English bar (born 1877) Thomas Williams, 1st Baron Williams, Welsh-born politician (born 1892) 7 March – George Camsell, footballer (born 1902) 8 March – William Astor, 3rd Viscount Astor, politician (born 1907) 10 March – Sophie Harris, theatre and opera costume and scenic designer (born 1900) 11 March – Clara Rackham, women's suffrage activist (born 1875) 2 April – C. S. Forester, novelist (born 1899) 9 April – Barry Butler, footballer, car accident (born 1934) 10 April – Evelyn Waugh, novelist (born 1903) 14 May – Megan Lloyd George, Welsh politician (born 1902) 22 May – Tom Goddard, cricketer (born 1900) 27 June – Arthur Waley, orientalist (born 1889) 30 June – Margery Allingham, detective novelist (born 1904) 1 July – Pauline Boty, pop art painter (born 1938) 13 July – Princess Beatrice, granddaughter of Queen Victoria, married into the Spanish royal family (born 1884) 25 September – Billy Smart Sr., circus owner (born 1894) 7 October – Johnny Kidd, rock singer/songwriter, car accident (born 1935) 10 October – Charlotte Cooper, tennis player (born 1870)Olympedia – Charlotte Cooper https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/45 Olympedia 20 July 2021 26 October – Alma Cogan, pop singer (born 1932) 14 November – Peter Baker, soldier, author, publisher, politician and forger (born 1921) 14 December – Emma Dunn, actress (born 1875)https://tv.apple.com/mt/person/emma-dunn/umc.cpc.e1rhv2wcia1bjmfri5hnvn2l Emma Dunn | Apple TV Apple TV 24 December – Sir Donald MacGillivray, Scottish colonial administrator, last governor of Malaya (born 1906) See also 1966 in British music 1966 in British television List of British films of 1966 References 1966 Category:Years of the 20th century in the United Kingdom Category:1966 by country Category:1960s in the United Kingdom Category:1966 in Europe