Obituary: Sir Edmund Verney, 6th Baronet, dead at age 76
Sir Edmund Verney, 6th Baronet, a British landowner, died on September 12, 2026, aged 76. Of Claydon House, Buckinghamshire, he succeeded to the family title in 2001 on the death…
Famous Dead People from Britain
Over 6,000 obituaries for famous people from Britain who died. Additional info, news, and memorial pages.
Anthony Page dead at age 90
Anthony Page, the Indian-born British film and stage director, died on September 11, 2026, aged 90. Born in Bangalore, Karnataka, he went to Canada on a free passage with the…
Khalid Mahmood passes away at age 84
Khalid Mahmood, the Pakistani Olympic field hockey player who captained the national team, died on September 10, 2026, aged 84. Born on December 28, 1941, in Jhelum, he represented Pakistan…
Obituary: Felicity Green, dead at age 100
Felicity Green, the British fashion journalist and newspaper executive, died on September 10, 2026, aged 100. Green, who was awarded an OBE, was born on June 26, 1926, and grew…
Margaret Rizza obituary: died at age 97
Margaret Rizza, the British composer and music teacher, died on September 9, 2026, aged 97. Born Margaret Lensky in Leek on August 19, 1929, she became known chiefly for church…
June Wyndham Davies died at age 97
June Wyndham Davies, a British television producer and director, died on September 9, 2026, aged 97. She was known for her work in television drama and for co-producing the film…
Dame Heather Steel died at age 86
Dame Heather Steel, the British jurist and High Court judge, died on September 9, 2026, aged 86. Dame Anne Heather Steel, DBE, was a former High Court judge and also…
Richard Alston passed away at age 77
Richard Alston, the British choreographer known for work with Ballet Rambert and The Place, died on September 7, 2026, aged 77. Born in Sussex and educated at Eton College, he…
Sir Roger Jones dead at age 83
Sir Roger Jones, the Welsh pharmaceutical executive and researcher, died on September 7, 2026, aged 83. Born on July 2, 1943, he was also known as Roger Spencer Jones. Educated…
Joe Harkness obituary: died at age 39
Joe Harkness, a British mental health activist, naturalist and writer, died on September 4, 2026, aged 39. Born in King’s Lynn, Norfolk, he became known for speaking openly about his…
Death of Francis Grosvenor, 8th Earl of Wilton at age 92
Francis Grosvenor, 8th Earl of Wilton, a British-Australian aristocrat and academic, died on September 4, 2026, aged 92. Born Francis Egerton Grosvenor on February 8, 1934, he was the eldest…
Richard O’Sullivan dead at age 82
Richard O'Sullivan, the English actor known for television comedies including Man About the House, Robin's Nest and Dick Turpin, died on September 4, 2026, aged 82. Born in Chiswick on…
Craig Douglas has died at age 85
Craig Douglas, the English singer who enjoyed his greatest success in the late 1950s and early 1960s, died on September 4, 2026, aged 85. Born Terence Perkins in Newport on…
Ulrich C. Knoepflmacher has died at age 95
Ulrich C. Knoepflmacher, a German-born American literary scholar, died September 4, 2026, at age 95. A Princeton University professor emeritus, he taught there from 1979 to 2006 as the William…
Enos Mafokate dies at 80
Enos Mafokate, a South African equestrian and pioneering show jumper, died on September 3, 2026, aged 80. Born in Alexandra, he became known as the first black South African show…
Obituary: Norman Irwin, dead at age 107
Norman Irwin, a Northern Irish World War II veteran and centenarian, died on September 2, 2026, aged 107. Born William Norman Wilson Irwin on November 17, 1918, in Coleraine, County…
Jimmy Batten dies at age 70
Jimmy Batten, the English boxer who became British light middleweight champion for more than two and a half years, died on September 2, 2026, aged 70. Born in Millwall, London,…
Peter Leaver dies at age 81
Peter Leaver, a British barrister and judge, died on September 2, 2026, aged 81. Known in full as Peter Lawrence Oppenheim Leaver, KC, he served as chief executive of the…
Ronald McCoy passes away at age 96
Ronald McCoy, the Malaysian obstetrician and peace activist who helped propose and initiate the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, died on September 1, 2026, aged 96. McCoy was best…
Joe Feeney dead at age 89
Joe Feeney, the Irish Olympic wrestler who competed at the 1960 and 1964 Summer Olympics, died on September 1, 2026, aged 89. Born in Dublin on February 28, 1937, he…
Frances Stonor Saunders, died aged 60
Frances Stonor Saunders, the British journalist and historian, died on August 31, 2026, aged 60. Born in London on April 14, 1966, she was also known as Frances Hélène Jeanne…
Helch passed away at age 34
Helch, the British graffiti artist known for his stylised capital lettering and widely seen HELCH tag, died on August 29, 2026, aged 34. Operating mainly in the United Kingdom, he…
Death of Peter R. Griffiths at age 84
Peter R. Griffiths, a British chemist and professor, died on August 29, 2026, aged 84. Born in London in 1942, he studied at St John’s College, Oxford, where he earned…
Obituary: Triona Holden, dead at age 66
Triona Holden, the British author, artist, journalist and former BBC presenter and correspondent, died on August 29, 2026, aged 66. Writing under the name Triona Palmer after her marriage, she…
Archibald MacKinnon passed away at age 89
Archibald MacKinnon, the Canadian rower and Olympic champion and silver medalist, died on August 28, 2026, aged 89. Born in Cranbrook, British Columbia, he studied at the University of British…
Obituary: Joan Phillip, dead at age 74
Joan Phillip, a Canadian politician and member of the British Columbia Legislative Assembly, died on August 28, 2026, aged 74. Born Joan Carter in North Vancouver, she was known as…
Harry Bramma passes away at age 89
Harry Bramma, the British organist and composer, died on August 25, 2026, aged 89. Born in Shipley in 1936 and also known as Harry Wakefield Bramma, he was a composer,…
Death of Maurice Herriott at age 86
Maurice Herriott, the British steeplechase runner and Olympic silver medallist, died on August 24, 2026, aged 86. A track and field athlete who specialised in the 3000 metres steeplechase, he…
Death of Lesley Grant-Adamson at age 83
Lesley Grant-Adamson, the British writer and journalist, died on August 24, 2026, aged 83. Born Lesley Heycock, she built her career in journalism before turning to full-time writing, holding a…
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 5th Earl of Cranbrook, died aged 93
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 5th Earl of Cranbrook, a British zoologist, died on August 24, 2026, aged 93. Also known as Lord Medway, he was active from 1956 in ornithology, mammalogy and…
Eileen Fenton dies at 98
Eileen Fenton, the British swimmer who became the first woman to swim the English Channel, died on August 23, 2026, aged 98. Born in June 1928, she completed the crossing…
Death of Imran Ullah Khan at age 93
Imran Ullah Khan, a Pakistani army general and former governor of Balochistan, died on August 23, 2026, aged 93. A retired Pakistan Army general, he served as governor of Balochistan…
barbara findlay dies at age 77
Barbara findlay, a Canadian lawyer and LGBT rights activist, died on August 23, 2026, aged 77. Over more than four decades, she used law, advocacy, education and community organizing to…
Bruno Schrecker has died at age 97
Bruno Schrecker, the German-born British cellist, died on August 23, 2026, aged 97. Born in Frankfurt on August 27, 1928, he was the son of Robert Schrecker and Lisl Bischitsky.…
Obituary: Sir Andrew Nicol, dead at age 75
Sir Andrew Nicol, the British judge who served as a justice of the High Court from 2009 to 2021, died on August 22, 2026, aged 75. Born Sir Andrew George…
Antony Donaldson obituary: died at age 86
Antony Donaldson, the British painter and sculptor noted for his work in London from the early 1960s, died on August 21, 2026, aged 86. Born in Surrey on September 2,…
John Iliffe dies at age 87
John Iliffe, a historian of Africa, died on August 20, 2026, aged 87. A British scholar whose work focused especially on the history of Tanzania, he was educated at Framlingham…
Terry Dyson death at age 91
Terry Dyson, the English footballer who starred as a winger for Tottenham Hotspur, died on August 20, 2026, aged 91. Born in Malton on November 29, 1934, and educated at…
Wilem Frischmann passed away at age 95
Wilem Frischmann, the British structural engineer whose work helped shape Centre Point, Tower 42 and Drapers Gardens, died on August 20, 2026, aged 95. Also known as Wilem William Frischmann,…
Barry Rogerson death at age 90
Barry Rogerson, a British bishop who served as the first Bishop of Wolverhampton and later as Bishop of Bristol, died on August 20, 2026, aged 90. Born on July 25,…
John Allen passes away at age 97
John Allen, the British engineer and plasma physicist known for work on dusty plasmas, plasma boundaries and the Bohm criterion, died on August 19, 2026, aged 97. Born John Edward…
Bill Lubenow dies at 87
Bill Lubenow, an American historian and longtime professor of history at Stockton University in New Jersey, died on August 19, 2026, aged 87. Over a career that spanned from 1971…
P. E. Easterling passes away at age 92
P. E. Easterling, the English classical scholar and expert on Sophocles, died on August 18, 2026, aged 92. Born Patricia Elizabeth Fairfax in Blackburn on March 11, 1934, she studied…
Phyllida Law passes away at age 94
Phyllida Law, the British actress, died on August 18, 2026, aged 94. Born in Glasgow in July 1932, she trained at Badminton School and began her career in 1958, working…
Sonia Melchett, died aged 100
Sonia Melchett, the British socialite and author known in later life as Sonia Elizabeth Sinclair, died on August 17, 2026, aged 100. Born Sonia Graham, she was the daughter of…
Wally Sykes died at age 83
Wally Sykes, the British Olympic sports shooter, died on August 16, 2026, aged 83. Known also as Wallace Sykes, he competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics and represented England at…
Peter Howell passed away at age 85
Peter Howell, a British academic and historian, died on August 15, 2026, aged 85. Born in Malta on July 29, 1941, he began his career in 1964 as an assistant…
Jason Arday obituary: died at age 41
Jason Arday, the British academic and author of Great and Unfortunate Things: A Memoir, died on August 14, 2026, aged 41. A former sociology professor, he taught at the University…
Finlay Tarling passed away at age 19
Finlay Tarling, a Welsh racing cyclist, died on August 14, 2026, aged 19, following a traffic collision. Tarling, born on 2 October 2006, rode for the UCI Continental team NSN…
Derry Brownson dies at age 55
Derry Brownson, an English musician known for his work with EMF, died on August 14, 2026, aged 55. Brownson was part of the alternative rock, alternative dance, indie rock and…
Peter Snape passed away at age 84
Peter Snape, the British politician who served as Labour MP for West Bromwich East from 1974 to 2001 and later sat in the House of Lords as Baron Snape, died…
Deirdre McSharry died at age 94
Deirdre McSharry, the British magazine editor who died on August 14, 2026, aged 94, worked across print journalism for decades and was associated with several leading titles. She began her…
Jill Gomez passes away at age 83
Jill Gomez, the Trinidadian-British soprano who built an active career on the operatic stage and in the concert hall, died on August 13, 2026, aged 83. Born Barbara Jill Gomez…
Dick Proctor has died at age 85
Dick Proctor, a Canadian political activist, former New Democratic Party member of Parliament and journalist, died on August 13, 2026, aged 85. Born in Toronto on February 12, 1941, he…
Cheryl Hall dies at age 75
Cheryl Hall, the British actress best known for her work in television, died on August 12, 2026, aged 75. Born in London on July 23, 1950, she built a long…
David Charles obituary: died at age 26
David Charles, the British philosopher, died on August 12, 2026, aged 26. Known professionally as David Owain Maurice Charles, he taught philosophy and classics at Yale University and held posts…
Giles Chichester has died at age 80
Giles Chichester, the British politician and Conservative Member of the European Parliament for South West England and Gibraltar, died on August 12, 2026, aged 80. Born Giles Bryan Chichester in…
Darryl Neighbour passed away at age 78
Darryl Neighbour, a Canadian wheelchair curler, died on August 11, 2026, aged 78, after being struck by a driver while crossing a road in Richmond, British Columbia. He was the…
Jean Paton obituary: died at age 97
Jean Paton, the British botanist and bryologist, died on August 10, 2026, aged 97. Also known as Jean Annette Paton and Jean A. Paton, she worked as a botanist, bryologist…
Gary Dwyer dead, Gary Dwyer, British drummer
Gary Dwyer, the British drummer best known for his work with The Teardrop Explodes, died on August 9, 2026, of leukaemia. He played with the Liverpool band during its years…
Arthur Price dead at age 80
Arthur Price, the British motorcycle speedway rider who died on August 9, 2026, aged 80, was born in Wolverhampton in 1946 and raced under his full name, Arthur Malcolm Price.…
Roger Penn dies at age 77
Roger Penn, the British sociologist and writer, died on August 7, 2026, aged 77. Born Roger David Penn in Lytham, Lancashire, he studied at Jesus College, Cambridge, graduating in 1972,…
Matthew Jukes dies at age 58
Matthew Jukes, a British wine writer, died on August 6, 2026, aged 58. Based in the United Kingdom, he was known for publishing annual wine reports including the 100 Best…
Tim Jeal passes away at age 81
Tim Jeal, the British biographer and novelist, died on August 5, 2026, aged 81. Born in London on January 27, 1945, as John Julian Timothy Jeal, he built a career…
Gloria Carlin died at age 84
Gloria Carlin, a Canadian actress known for The Hanoi Hilton, died on August 5, 2026, at age 84. Carlin’s screen work included the 1987 war drama, and she is identified…
Jean Lodge, died aged 99
Jean Lodge, the British actress known for Death of an Angel, Brandy for the Parson and Glad Tidings, died on August 5, 2026, aged 99. Born Jean Margaret Lodge in…
Robin Middleton death at age 94
Robin Middleton, the British architectural historian and professor emeritus of Columbia University, died on August 3, 2026, aged 94. Born in South Africa on September 30, 1931, he trained as…
Sir Anthony Kenny dies at age 95
Sir Anthony Kenny, the British philosopher known for work in the philosophy of mind, ancient and scholastic philosophy, the philosophy of religion and Wittgenstein studies, died on August 3, 2026,…
Vic Matthews passed away at age 92
Vic Matthews, the British hurdler and decathlete also known as Victor Charles Matthews, died on August 3, 2026, aged 92. Born in Motspur Park, London, he competed at the 1960…
Rod Liddle death at age 66
Rod Liddle, the English journalist and broadcaster, died on August 2, 2026, aged 66. Born in Abbey Wood on April 1, 1960, he worked at the BBC and became editor…
Death of Sir Anthony Evans at age 92
Sir Anthony Evans, British judge and lord justice of appeal from 1992 to 2000, died on August 2, 2026, aged 92. Known also as Sir Anthony Howell Meurig Evans, he…
Lou Sekora dies at 94
Lou Sekora, a Canadian politician, died on August 1, 2026, aged 94. Born in Hafford, Saskatchewan, Sekora entered civic politics in Coquitlam, British Columbia, winning election to city council in…
Sir John Garnier died at age 92
Sir John Garnier, a British Royal Navy officer and courtier, died on July 31, 2026, aged 92. A rear-admiral, he served as Naval Equerry to the Queen from 1962 to…
Vicki Wickham died at age 87
Vicki Wickham, the English talent manager and television producer known for her work on Ready Steady Go!, died on July 31, 2026, aged 87. Born in England in 1939, she…
Nirmal Purja dead at age 43
Nirmal Purja, the Nepali mountaineer known as Nims or Nimsdai, died on July 30, 2026, aged 43, after an avalanche on Pakistan’s Broad Peak. Born on July 25, 1983, in…
Cairns Craig dies at 77
Cairns Craig, the Scottish literary scholar who specialised in Scottish and modernist literature, died on July 29, 2026, aged 77. Born Robert Cairns Craig in Kilmarnock in 1949, he built…
Death of Ghanaati at age 20
Ghanaati, an American Thoroughbred racehorse, died on July 28, 2026, aged 20. Foaled on March 28, 2006, the American-bred, British-trained filly ran six times in a career that lasted from…
Tom Chadbon death at age 80
Tom Chadbon, the English actor best known for work in British television and appearances in Doctor Who, Tess and Casino Royale, died on July 27, 2026, aged 80. Born in…
Ronnie Le Drew death at age 78
Ronnie Le Drew, the Canadian-born British puppeteer best known for performing Zippy on the ITV children’s series Rainbow, died on July 27, 2026. Born in Toronto on October 23, 1947,…
Ted Craig died at age 86
Ted Craig, an Australian-born British theatre director, died on July 27, 2026, aged 86. Born in Melbourne on April 20, 1940, he was educated there before moving into Australian television,…
Michael McNay death at age 91
Michael McNay, the British journalist and author who spent 37 years at The Guardian, where he became arts editor, died on July 25, 2026, aged 91. Born Michael George McNay…
Leung Choi-yuen died at age 75
Leung Choi-yuen, a Hong Kong television producer, died on July 25, 2026. Known in the industry as Uncle Choi, he worked at TVB as both a producer and a production…
Bill Oddie dead at age 85
Bill Oddie, the English wildlife presenter and comedian best known for Springwatch, Birding with Bill Oddie and his work with The Goodies, died on July 25, 2026, aged 85. Born…
John Horam death at age 87
John Horam, the British politician who served as an MP and later as a member of the House of Lords, died on July 25, 2026, following complications from a fall.…
Asteryth Sloane dies at 26
Asteryth Sloane, a British composer of contemporary classical music and poet, died on July 23, 2026, at the age of 26. Born in 2000 and also known as Alexia Sloane…
Paddy McNally death at age 88
Paddy McNally, the British businessman and racing driver who ran Allsport Management and helped shape Formula One’s advertising and hospitality operations, died on July 22, 2026. Born Patrick Sean McNally…
John Sheffield dead at age 89
John Sheffield, a British physicist, died on July 22, 2026, aged 89. Born in London on December 15, 1936, he studied at Imperial College London, where he earned a BSc…
David Douglas, 12th Marquess of Queensberry, died aged 96
David Douglas, 12th Marquess of Queensberry, a British aristocrat and pottery designer, died on July 22, 2026, at the age of 96. Born David Harrington Angus Douglas in London on…
Brian Doerksen death at age 60
Brian Doerksen, the Canadian Christian singer-songwriter and worship leader from Abbotsford, British Columbia, died on July 21, 2026. Born on January 1, 1965, Doerksen began his career in 1989 and…
R. W. Johnson passes away at age 82
R. W. Johnson, the English-born South African historian and academic, died on July 21, 2026, aged 82. Born Richard William Johnson in England in September 1943, he studied at Natal…
Pauline Clayden died at age 103
Pauline Clayden, the British ballerina, died on July 21, 2026, aged 103. Born in Greenwich, London, on October 12, 1922, she trained at the Cone School of Dancing before Peggy…
Terry Lewis passes away at age 90
Terry Lewis, the British politician who served as Labour MP for Worsley from 1983 to 2005, died on July 20, 2026. Born Terence Lewis on December 29, 1935, he was…
John Jansen death at age 78
John Jansen, a Canadian politician and British Columbia MLA, died on July 20, 2026, at the age of 78. Born in Chilliwack on October 27, 1947, he represented the Social…
Roy Jackson dies at 94
Roy Jackson, a British chemical engineer, died on July 20, 2026, aged 94. Born in Manchester on October 6, 1931, he attended Bolton School before his studies were interrupted by…
Christine Borland has died at age 61
Christine Borland, the British sculptrix and Scottish artist, died on July 19, 2026, at the age of 61. Born in Darvel, Ayrshire, Scotland, in 1965, she became associated with the…
Obituary: Geoff Somers, dead at age 76
Geoff Somers, the British explorer who died on July 18, 2026, aged 76, was known for his work in the polar regions and for becoming the first Briton to cross…
Edward Stourton dead at age 68
Edward Stourton, the British broadcaster and journalist who presented BBC Radio 4’s Sunday and Today, died on July 18, 2026, at the age of 68. Born Edward John Ivo Stourton…