1994 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1994 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

Monarch – Elizabeth II
Prime Minister – John Major

Events

January

4 January – Following the expulsion of the British ambassador from Sudan, the Foreign Office orders the Sudanese ambassador to leave Britain.
8 January – Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean win the British ice-dancing championship at the Sheffield Arena.
10 January – Two government ministers resign: Lord Caithness following the suicide of his wife, and Tim Yeo following the revelation that he fathered a child with Conservative councillor Julia Stent.
14 January – The Duchess of Kent joins the Catholic Church, the first member of the Royal Family to convert to Catholicism for more than 300 years.
18 January – The Prince of Wales retires from competitive polo at the age of 45.
20 January
* Despite the continuing economic recovery and falling unemployment, the Conservative government is now 20 points behind Labour in the latest MORI poll.
* Former Manchester United manager Sir Matt Busby dies aged 84.
25 January – Jimmy Boyce, the newly elected Labour MP for Rotherham in South Yorkshire, dies suddenly of a heart attack aged 47.
31 January – British Aerospace sells its 80% stake in [MG MG Rover Group|Rover Group|Rover] to BMW, leaving Britain without an independent volume carmaker. It is envisaged that the new Rover Group will produce more than one million cars per year worldwide and will be Europe's seventh largest carmaker.

February

1 February
* John Smith (Labour Party leader) strongly criticises the sale of the Rover Group, saying that it only satisfied British Aerospace's short-term need for cash. In contrast, Prime Minister John Major backs the takeover as giving the Rover Group excellent prospects for export markets and investment.
* Jo Richardson, the Labour MP for Barking in London, dies in office aged 70.
4 February – British Coal confirms the closure of four more pits, a move which will claim some 3,000 jobs.
7 February – Stephen Milligan, Conservative MP for Eastleigh in Hampshire, is found dead aged 45 at his home in Chiswick, West London. On 11 February it is announced that forensic tests have revealed that he died of asphyxiation and that his death was probably the result of an auto-erotic sex practice.
10 February – Three men are jailed in connection with the IRA bombings of Warrington gasworks 11 months previous. Pairic MacFhloinn is jailed for 35 years, Denis Kinsella for 25 years and John Kinsella for 20 years.
12–27 February – Great Britain and Northern Ireland compete at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, and win 2 bronze medals.
21 February – Honda sells its 20% stake of the Rover Group, allowing BMW to take full control. This marks the end of the 13-year venture between the two carmakers, although the Honda-based Rover 400 will still go into production next year, becoming the seventh and final product of the venture.
24 February – Police in Gloucester begin excavations at 25 Cromwell Street, the home of 52-year-old builder Fred West, investigating the disappearance of his daughter Heather, who was last seen alive in the summer of 1987 when she was 16 years old.
28 February
* Fred West is charged with the murder of his daughter Heather and of the murder of Shirley Robinson, an 18-year-old woman who was last seen alive in 1978.
* Ron Leighton, the Labour MP for Newham North East in London, dies in office aged 64.

March

8, 10 and 13 March – The IRA launch three successive mortar attacks on Heathrow Airport.
8 March – Police in Gloucester confirm that they have now found the bodies of eight people buried at 25 Cromwell Street.
12 March – The first women are ordained as priests in the Church of England, at Bristol Cathedral, the very first being Angela Berners-Wilson.
19 March – Europe's first inverted roller coaster, Nemesis, opens at Alton Towers.

April

April – Economic growth for the first quarter of this year exceeded 1% – the highest for five years.
1 April – Women's Royal Air Force fully merged into Royal Air Force.
10 April – Human remains are found at Kempley, Gloucestershire, by police working on the Gloucester mass murder case. The body is believed to be that of Catherine "Rena" Costello, Fred West's first wife, who was last seen alive in 1971.
12 April – Bob Cryer, the Labour MP for Bradford South in West Yorkshire, is accidentally killed after his car overturns on the M1 near Watford, Hertfordshire, aged 59.
20 April – Unemployment has fallen to just over 2.5 million – the lowest level in two years – as the economy continues to make a good recovery from the recession that ended a year ago.
28 April – Rosemary West, 40-year-old wife of suspected serial killer Fred West, is charged with three of the murders her husband stands accused of. Rosemary West was first arrested seven days ago, two months after her husband was first taken into custody.
29 April – An opinion poll shows that Conservative support has fallen to 26% – their worst showing in any major opinion poll since coming to power 15 years ago.

May

4 May – Police find human remains buried at a former home of Fred and Rose West in Gloucester. The body is believed to be that of Fred West's daughter Charmaine, who was last seen alive at the age of 8 in the summer of 1971.
5 May
* Local council elections see the Conservatives lose 429 seats and control of 18 councils.
* The Rotherham by-election is held; Denis MacShane holds the seat for Labour.
6 May – The Channel Tunnel, a long rail tunnel beneath the English Channel at the Strait of Dover, is officially opened by the Queen and French President François Mitterrand.
9 May – Release of Scottish group Wet Wet Wet's cover of the song "Love Is All Around", as featured in Four Weddings and a Funeral. From 29 May it will spend 15 consecutive weeks at number one in the UK Singles Chart, the longest spell ever attained by a British act.
12 May – John Smith (Labour Party leader) dies suddenly of a heart attack in London at 55 years old.
13 May – The film Four Weddings and a Funeral is released in the UK.
17 May – Bryan Gould, the Labour MP who unsuccessfully lost to John Smith in the [1992 Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party leadership election|1992 leadership election], resigns from the House of Commons, triggering a by-election in his Dagenham constituency.
19 May – Robert Black, who was jailed for life four years ago for abducting a seven-year-old girl in the Scottish Borders, is found guilty of murdering three girls who were killed during the 1980s and sentenced to life imprisonment with a recommended minimum term of 35 years.
25 May – The Camelot Group consortium wins the contract to run the UK's first National Lottery.
31 May – Tony Blair and Gordon Brown have dinner at the Granita restaurant in Islington and allegedly make a deal on who will become the leader of the Labour Party, and ultimately, the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

June

2 June – Chinook crash on Mull of Kintyre: an RAF Chinook helicopter carrying more than twenty leading intelligence experts crashes on the Mull of Kintyre, killing everyone on board.
7 June
* Television playwright Dennis Potter, 59, dies of cancer in Ross-on-Wye, a week after his wife Margaret died of the same illness.
* Police working on the Gloucester mass murder case find and begin the 2-day recovery of human remains from a field at Much Marcle, near Gloucester, which are identified on 30 June to be those of Anne McFall, who was last seen alive in 1967 at the age of 18 and pregnant with West's child.
9 June
* David Chidgey wins the Eastleigh seat for the Liberal Democrats in the by-election sparked by Stephen Milligan's death; the Tory majority now stands at 15 seats compared with the 21-seat majority they gained at the general election two years ago.
* By-elections are held in the seats of Barking, Bradford South, Dagenham and Newham North East; all four are held by Labour.
13 June – The Conservatives suffer their worst election results this century, winning a mere 18 out of 87 of the nation's seats in the European parliament elections. The resurgent Labour Party, still without a leader as the search for a successor to the late John Smith continues, wins 62 seats.
16 June – Sir Norman Fowler resigns as chairman of the Conservative Party.
15 June – Britain's railways grind to a virtual standstill with a strike by more than 4,000 signalling staff.
29 June – Jonathan Dimbleby's film on Charles III, Charles: The Private Man, the Public Role is broadcast on ITV.
30 June
* Magistrates in Gloucester charge Fred West with a total of 11 murders believed to have been committed between 1967 and 1987, while Rose West is charged with nine murders which are believed to have been committed between 1970 and 1987. On 3 July he is charged with a 12th murder, that of Anna McFall.
* Helen Liddell, a former aide to Robert Maxwell, is elected as the new Labour MP for Monklands East in the by-election caused by the death of John Smith.

July

14 July – The Queen opens the SIS Building, the new headquarters of MI6 on the banks of the River Thames in London.
21 July – Tony Blair wins the Labour Party leadership election defeating John Prescott and Margaret Beckett.
26 July – The Embassy of Israel, London is damaged in a bombing.

August

1 August
* Fire destroys the Norwich Central Library, including most of its historical records.
* The University of London founds the School of Advanced Study, a group of postgraduate research institutes.
13 August – Fifteen-year-old Richard Everitt is stabbed to death in London by a gang of British Bangladeshis in a racially motivated murder.
18 August – The first MORI poll since Tony Blair became Labour Party leader gives him a massive boost in his ambition to become prime minister as his party scores at 56% and has a 33-point lead over the Conservatives, who are now just five points ahead of the Liberal Democrats.
20 August – Huddersfield Town move into their new all-seater Alfred McAlpine Stadium, which has an initial capacity of 16,000 and will rise to 20,000 later this year on the completion of a third stand; a fourth stand is also planned and would take the capacity to around 25,000.
26 August – Sunday Trading Act 1994 comes into full effect, permitting retailers to trade on Sundays, though restricting opening times of larger stores to a maximum of six hours, which must be between 10 am and 6 pm. This will have a significant social effect on shopping habits.
31 August – The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares a ceasefire.

September

September – Lidl, a German discount food supermarket chain, opens its first 10 stores in Britain.
2 September – Television entertainer Roy Castle, who became best known to British viewers as the long-running presenter of the BBC children's series Record Breakers, dies from lung cancer at the age of 62.
2–4 September – The first Whitby Goth Weekend takes place in Whitby, North Yorkshire, featuring Inkubus Sukkubus, 13 Candles, Nightmoves, All Living Fear.
30 September – Aldwych, North Weald and Ongar railway stations on the London Underground close permanently after the last trains run.

October

October – Rover Group launches the Rover 100 – a facelifted version of the Metro.
10 October – With the economic recovery continuing at a strong rate, unemployment is now falling at twice the rate in Conservative constituencies than in Labour ones, giving the Conservatives hope that they could win the next general election despite Labour having led the way in the opinion polls for virtually all of the two-and-a-half years since the last election.
12 October – John Blackburn, the Conservative MP for Dudley West in the West Midlands, dies suddenly of a heart attack aged 61.
20 October – Cash-for-questions affair: The Guardian newspaper reports that two Conservative MPs, Neil Hamilton and Tim Smith, took bribes from Harrods chief Mohamed Al-Fayed to ask questions in the House of Commons.
30 October – Korean industrial giant Daewoo announces that it will start selling cars in Britain next year, selling directly to customers through its own sales organisation rather than a traditional dealer network.
31 October – The Duke of Edinburgh attends a ceremony in Israel where his late mother, Princess Alice of Battenberg, is honoured as "Righteous among the Nations" for sheltering Jewish families from the Nazis in Athens, during World War II.

November

3 November – Royal Assent given to:
* Criminal Justice and Public Order Act. This changes the right to silence of an accused person, allowing for inferences to be drawn from their silence; increases police powers of "Stop and search" and gives them greater rights to take and retain intimate body samples; changes the law relating to collective trespass to land, criminalising some previously civil offences; tightens the law in some areas relating to obscenity, pornography and sexual offences; and lowers the age of consent for male homosexual acts from twenty-one years to eighteen, while setting the age for female acts at sixteen, for the first time in English law recognising the existence of lesbianism.
* Marriage Act. This allows civil marriages to be solemnized in certain "approved premises".
10 November – BBC One broadcasts the first episode of sitcom The Vicar of Dibley, created by Richard Curtis for Dawn French, who plays the title role.
14 November – Eurostar services begin running from London to Paris as well as to Brussels.
15 November – The Daily Telegraph becomes the first national newspaper in Britain to launch an online edition, the Electronic Telegraph. Some 600,000 people in Britain now have access to the internet at home.
16 November – Unemployment falls to under 2.5 million for the first time since the end of 1991.
19 November – The first UK National Lottery draw takes place.

December

December – Rover Group ends production of its long-running Maestro and Montego ranges which were strong sellers during the 1980s but in recent years has been produced in lower volumes due to the success of models like the Rover 200.
9 December – First meeting between the British government and Sinn Féin in more than 70 years.
14 December – Moors murderer Myra Hindley, who has been in prison since 1966, is informed by the Home Office that she will never be released from prison. She is one of an estimated 15 life sentence prisoners who have been issued with the whole life tariff. The decision was taken by former Home Secretary David Waddington in 1990. Ian Brady who was also jailed with Hindley in May 1966, is also on the list.
15 December
* Tony Blair continues to enjoy dominance in the opinion polls as the latest MORI poll shows Labour support at an unprecedented 61%, putting them a massive 39 points ahead of the Conservatives. The Liberal Democrats have suffered a slump in popularity, with them getting just 13% of the vote in this poll, compared to 20% a year ago.
* Ian Pearson wins the Dudley West by-election for Labour with nearly 70% of the votes, becoming the new MP for the constituency which was left vacant with the death of Conservative John Blackburn two months ago. The Conservative majority has now fallen to 13 seats.
21 December – Air Algérie Flight 702P crashes near Binley, Coventry; all five people on board are killed.
28 December – Tony Blair claims that 40% of the workforce have been unemployed at some time since 1989, although there has never been more than 10.6% of the workforce out of work at the same time since then.

Undated

Deregulation of the British milk market following the abolition of most functions of the Milk Marketing Board under terms of the Agriculture Act 1993.
All Saints Church in Dewsbury is raised to the dignity of Dewsbury Minster, the first such modern elevation in the Church of England.

Publications

Iain M. Banks' novel Feersum Endjinn.
Edwina Currie's novel A Parliamentary Affair.
Simon Hopkinson's cookbook Roast Chicken and Other Stories.
James Kelman's novel How Late It Was, How Late.
Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels Soul Music and Interesting Times.Sexual Behaviour in Britain: the national survey of sexual attitudes and lifestyles by Kaye Wellings ''et al.''

Births

3 January – Olivia Bowen, reality television personality
14 January – Abi Phillips, singer-songwriter and actress
15 January – Eric Dier, footballer
17 January – Lucy Boynton, actress
18 January – Sam Strike, actor
19 January – Alfie Mawson, footballer
21 January – Laura Robson, Australian-born tennis player
30 January – Amelia Dimoldenberg, media personality
1 February – Harry Styles, pop singer-songwriter, member of boyband One Direction
6 February – Charlie Heaton, actor
12 February – Reece Topley, cricketer
14 February – Becky Hill, singer-songwriter
22 February – Jake Hill, English racing driver
24 February – Ryan Fraser, footballer
7 March – Jordan Pickford, goalkeeper
10 March – Nikita Parris, footballer
11 March – Andy Robertson, footballer
11 April – Dakota Blue Richards, actress
19 April – Freya Ridings, singer
25 April – Sam Fender, singer
5 May – Celeste, American-born singer
6 May – Emily Campbell, weightlifter
9 May – Ryan Auger, footballer
21 May – Tom Daley, diver
28 May – John Stones, footballer
1 June – Ross Greer, Scottish politician
19 June – Scarlxrd, rapper
23 June – Jamie Borthwick, actor
28 June – Madeline Duggan, actress
1 July – Fallon Sherrock, darts player
6 July – Camilla and Rebecca Rosso, twin actresses
21 July – Jamal Lowe, footballer
14 August – Maya Jama, television and radio presenter
10 September – Hetti Bywater, actress
12 September – Mhairi Black, Scottish politician
19 September – Alex Etel, English actor
20 September – Wallis Day, actress
21 September – Ben Proud, English swimmer
24 September – Alex Mellor, rugby league player
17 October – Ben Duckett, cricketer
18 October – Jake Connor, rugby league player
1 November – James Ward-Prowse, footballer
3 November − Ella Mai, singer
6 November − Paul Mullin, footballer
9 November – MNEK, singer
11 November – Ellie Simmons, paralympic swimmer
12 December – Mitchell Pinnock, footballer
16 December – Olive Gray, actress
28 December – Adam Peaty, swimmer

Deaths

January

1 January
* William Chappell, ballet dancer and director
* Peggy Simpson, actress
* E. A. Thompson, Marxist historian
3 January
* Katharine Elliot, Baroness Elliot of Harwood, politician and public servant
* Norman Hepple, painter ; accidentally killed
* Heather Sears, actress
5 January
* David Bates, physicist and mathematician
* Brian Johnston, BBC cricket commentator
7 January
* Arthur Dooley, artist and sculptor
* Llewellyn Rees, actor
10 January – Michael Aldridge, actor
17 January – Robin Turton, Baron Tranmire, politician
20 January – Sir Matt Busby, football player and manager
21 January – Tony Waddington, football manager
23 January – Brian Redhead, journalist and broadcaster
25 January – Jimmy Boyce, politician
27 January – Sir Frank Twiss, Royal Navy admiral
30 January – Oswald Phipps, 4th Marquess of Normanby, peer and philanthropist

February

1 February – Jo Richardson, politician
2 February – Anona Winn, actress
3 February – Frederick Copleston, Jesuit priest, philosopher and historian
4 February – Jane Arbor, novelist
6 February
* Norman Del Mar, musician and biographer
* Gwen Watford, actress
7 February
* Stephen Milligan, politician
* Sir Charles Leslie Richardson, Army general and World War II veteran
10 February – Mel Calman, cartoonist
11 February – Sir Vincent Wigglesworth, entomologist
13 February – Michael Lindsay, 2nd Baron Lindsay of Birker, peer and academic
14 February – Margaret Lane, novelist and biographer
18 February
* Ruth Adler, feminist and human rights campaigner
* John Tedder, 2nd Baron Tedder, peer and chemist
* Barbara Willard, novelist
19 February – Derek Jarman, film director, stage designer, artist and writer
27 February – Harold Acton, writer and scholar
28 February – Ron Leighton, politician

March

1 March – Tim Souster, musician and writer on music
2 March – Donald M. MacKinnon, philosopher and theologian
8 March – Rosemary Du Cros, aviator
9 March – Jon Kimche, journalist and historian
10 March – Rupert Bruce-Mitford, archaeologist
11 March
* Evelyn Gardner, socialite
* Brenda Wootton, folk singer and poet
15 March – Jack Hargreaves, television presenter and writer
16 March – Richard Nugent, Baron Nugent of Guildford, politician
18 March
* Andrew Crawford, actor
* David Ginsburg, politician
23 March – Donald Swann, composer
27 March – Frances Donaldson, writer and biographer
28 March – Richard Brandram, Army major and husband of Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark
29 March – Bill Travers, actor and co-founder of the Born Free Foundation

April

1 April – Ian MacDonald Campbell, civil engineer
7 April
* Lee Brilleaux, singer
* Cecil Gould, art historian
8 April – Irene Eisinger, opera singer and film actress
9 April
* Anthony E. Pratt, musician and inventor of the board game Cluedo
* Keith Watson, comics artist
12 April
* Bob Cryer, politician ; car accident
* Pamela Mitford, socialite and one of the Mitford sisters
13 April – Bert Ramelson, communist politician
14 April – Evelyn King, politician
15 April – John Curry, figure skater
16 April – Leslie Flint, psychic medium
19 April
* Michael Carreras, film director and producer
* Tommy McCue, rugby league player
25 April – David Langton, actor
27 April – Lynne Frederick, actress
30 April – Herbert Bowden, Baron Aylestone, politician

May

8 May – Lady Victoria Wemyss, last surviving godchild of Queen Victoria
11 May – Alfred James Broomhall, missionary to China
12 May
* Sir Alfred Beit, 2nd Baronet, politician, art collector and philanthropist
* John Smith, Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition
13 May – Duncan Hamilton, racing driver
14 May – Brian Roper, actor and estate agent
15 May – Alexander Nove, economist and economic historian
19 May – Joseph Chatt, chemist
20 May – Ingrid Hafner, actress
21 May
* Ralph Miliband, sociologist and father of David and Ed Miliband
* Cliff Wilson, snooker player
23 May – Joan Vickers, Baroness Vickers, politician
24 May – John Wain, novelist, poet and critic
29 May
* Lady May Abel Smith, British royalty
* Peter Cranmer, sportsman
30 May – Donald Hill, science historian
31 May – Sidney Gilliat, film director, producer and writer

June

3 June – Stuart Blanch, former archbishop of York
4 June
* Derek Leckenby, guitarist
* Peter Thorneycroft, Baron Thorneycroft, politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer
6 June
* Peter Graves, 8th Baron Graves, peer and actor
* Mark McManus, Scottish actor
7 June – Dennis Potter, screenwriter
12 June – William Elgin Swinton, paleontolgist
14 June
* Lionel Grigson, jazz musician
* Denys Hay, historian
16 June – Eileen Way, actress
17 June
* Len White, footballer
* Frank Yates, statistician
19 June – Anthony Coke, 6th Earl of Leicester, peer
22 June – Jack Davies, screenwriter
24 June – Leon MacLaren, philosopher
26 June – Thomas Armstrong, organist, composer, conductor and educationalist

July

3 July – Felix Kelly, designer and artist
5 July – Charles Comfort, Scottish-born painter, sculptor, teacher and writer
6 July – Geoff McQueen, screenwriter
9 July – Trevor King, Ulster loyalist ; murdered
12 July
* James Joll, historian
* David Malcolm Lewis, historian
14 July – Rosalind Shand, aristocrat and mother of Queen Camilla
21 July – John Ernest, American-born constructivist artist
23 July – John Marlow Thompson, World War II air ace
25 July
* Walter Baxter, novelist
* Jack Clemo, poet and writer
26 July – Terry Scott, comic actor
28 July – Bernard Delfont, theatrical impresario
29 July – Dorothy Hodgkin, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
30 July – Derek Raymond, crime writer
31 July
* Anne Shelton, singer
* Caitlin Thomas, author and wife of Dylan Thomas

August

1 August – Romilly Lunge, actor
4 August – Solomon Adler, economist and Soviet spy
7 August – Larry Martyn, comic actor
11 August
* Gordon Cullen, architect and urban designer
* Peter Cushing, actor
14 August – Joan Harrison, screenwriter
15 August – Syd Dale, composer
18 August
* John Beavan, Baron Ardwick, journalist
* Richard Laurence Millington Synge, chemist and Nobel Prize winner
19 August – Nancy Lancaster, interior designer
27 August – Fred Griffiths, actor
29 August
* Marea Hartman, athletics administrator
* Arthur Mourant, chemist, haematologist and geneticist
30 August – Lindsay Anderson, film and theatre director

September

2 September – Roy Castle, actor and entertainer
3 September – Billy Wright, footballer, football manager and husband of Joy Beverley
4 September
* Mark Bonham Carter, Baron Bonham-Carter, publisher and politician
* Roger Thomas, politician
6 September – Nicky Hopkins, pianist and organist
7 September – Eric Crozier, theatrical director and opera librettist
8 September – Margaret Guido, archaeologist
9 September – Donald Court, paediatrician
11 September – Jessica Tandy, actress
13 September – John Stevens, rock drummer
16 September – Johnny Berry, footballer
17 September – Sir Karl Popper, philosopher, academic and social commentator
22 September
* Leonard Feather, jazz pianist and composer
* Andrew Rothstein, journalist
* Edward Shackleton, Baron Shackleton, geographer, RAF officer and politician
25 September – Mark Abrams, sociologist
26 September – Maurice Ashley, historian
29 September – Oswald Nock, railway signal engineer and writer on railways
30 September – Alex Scott, racehorse trainer ; murdered

October

1 October – Ron Herron, architect
2 October – Matthew Black, Scottish minister and biblical scholar
7 October – James Hill, film director
8 October – Diana Churchill, actress
9 October – Philip Burton Moon, nuclear physicist
10 October – Richard J. C. Atkinson, archaeologist
12 October – John Blackburn, politician
14 October – Gioconda de Vito, violinist
16 October
* Peter Bromilow, actor
* Monja Danischewsky, film producer and writer
20 October – Robert Medley, artist
22 October – Harold Hopkins, physicist
23 October – Jack Gibson, schoolmaster and mountaineer
28 October
* William Boon, chemist
* Marcia Anastasia Christoforides, philanthropist, art collector and racehorse owner
31 October – Sir John Pope-Hennessy, art historian

November

3 November – Archibald Stinchcombe, ice hockey player
5 November – Patrick Dean, diplomat
8 November – Marianne Straub, textile designer
9 November – Ralph Michael, actor
11 November
* Stephen Dykes Bower, church architect
* Ernest Clark, actor
* Elizabeth Maconchy, composer
12 November – Michael Innes, novelist
13 November – John Bishop Harman, physician
14 November – Humphry Berkeley, politician
15 November – Janet Ahlberg, children's writer
16 November – Doris Speed, actress
18 November – Michael Somes, ballet dancer
19 November – Julian Symons, crime writer and poet
23 November – Austen Albu, politician
24 November – George Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk, peer and politician
26 November – David Bache, automobile designer
28 November
* Charles Howard, 12th Earl of Carlisle, peer
* Ian Serraillier, novelist and poet

December

4 December – Sir Geoffrey Elton, historian
6 December – Alun Owen, actor and screenwriter
10 December – Keith Joseph, lawyer and politician
12 December – Sir Evelyn Shuckburgh, diplomat
13 December – Norman Beaton, actor
14 December – Sir Edmund Hudleston, RAF officer
15 December – Mollie Phillips, figure skater
18 December
* Heinz Bernard, actor and theatre manager
* David Pitt, Baron Pitt of Hampstead, politician and physician
19 December – James Elphinstone, 18th Lord Elphinstone, Scottish peer
20 December – Phelim O'Neill, 2nd Baron Rathcavan, peer and politician
21 December – Mabel Poulton, actress
22 December – John Arthur Todd, mathematician
23 December – Sebastian Shaw, actor and writer
24 December – John Osborne, actor and playwright
25 December – Cyril Garnham, parasitologist
26 December – Jock Campbell, Baron Campbell of Eskan, businessman
27 December
* Fanny Cradock, cookery writer and TV chef
* Steve Plytas, actor
30 December – Maureen Starkey Tigrett, hairdresser and first wife of Ringo Starr