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'{{short description|UK-related events during the year of 1984}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2020}} {{Use British English|date=February 2012}} {{Year in United Kingdom|1984 |label1= Constituent countries of the United Kingdom |data1 = [[1984 in England|England]] {{!}} [[1984 in Northern Ireland|Northern Ireland]] {{!}} [[1984 in Scotland|Scotland]] {{!}} [[1984 in Wales|Wales]] |label2= Popular culture |data2 = <div> [[1984 British Grand Prix]]<br /> [[1984 English cricket season]]<br /> [[Football in the United Kingdom|Football]]: [[1983–84 in English football|England]] {{!}} [[1983–84 in Scottish football|Scotland]]<br /> [[1984 in British television]]<br /> [[1984 in British music]]<br /> [[1984 in British radio]]<br /> [[United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 1984|UK in the Eurovision Song Contest 1984]] </div> }} Events from the year '''[[1984]] in the [[United Kingdom]]'''. The year was dominated by the [[1984–1985 United Kingdom miners' strike|miners' strike]]. ==Incumbents== * [[Monarch of the United Kingdom|Monarch]] – [[Elizabeth II]] * [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]] – [[Margaret Thatcher]] ([[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]) ==Events== ===January=== * January – [[General Motors]] ends production of the [[Vauxhall Chevette]] after nine years. * 1 January – The Bornean Sultanate of [[Brunei]] gains full [[independence]] from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888. * 3 January – The [[FTSE 100 Index]] starts. * 6 January – The [[Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders]] announces that a record of nearly 1.8 million cars were sold in Britain last year. The best-selling car for the second year running was the [[Ford Escort (Europe)|Ford Escort]] with more than 174,000 sales.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19840107&id=kMJAAAAAIBAJ&pg=4192,618643|title=The Glasgow Herald – Google News Archive Search}}</ref> * 9 January – [[Sarah Tisdall]], a 23-year-old [[Foreign Office]] clerk, is charged under the [[Official Secrets Act]]. * 13 January – Six people die when Britain is battered by hurricane-force winds. * 14 January – Six people die during a fire at the Maysfield Leisure Centre in Belfast.<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Six die at Leisure Centre|date=16 January 1984 |page=2 |issue=61739 }}</ref> * 15 January – Left-wing MP [[Tony Benn]] wins the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]]'s nomination for the [[Chesterfield (UK Parliament constituency)|Chesterfield]] by-election, eight months after losing his seat as [[Member of parliament]] (MP) for Bristol in the [[1983 United Kingdom general election|General Election]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/15/newsid_2530000/2530573.stm|title= 1984: Benn back on road to Westminster|work=BBC News|access-date=29 January 2008|date=15 January 1984| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080307124400/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/15/newsid_2530000/2530573.stm| archive-date= 7 March 2008 | url-status= live}}</ref> * 25 January – The government prohibits [[GCHQ]] staff from belonging to any trade union.<ref name=CBH>{{cite book|last=Palmer|first=Alan|last2=Palmer |first2=Veronica|year=1992|title=The Chronology of British History|publisher=Century Ltd|location=London|pages=449–450|isbn=0-7126-5616-2}}</ref> ===February=== * 1 February **Japanese car maker [[Nissan]] signs an agreement with the British government to build a car factory in Britain. This landmark deal means that foreign cars will be built in Britain for the first time, with the factory set to open during 1986.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.itnsource.com/shotlist//ITN/1984/02/01/124590/?s=Nissan+car+factory |title=Shot list |work=itnsource.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719185651/http://www.itnsource.com/shotlist//RTV/2007/02/16/RTV248507/ |archive-date=19 July 2011 }}</ref> **Chancellor of the Exchequer [[Nigel Lawson]] announces that after 13 years, the [[Halfpenny (British decimal coin)|halfpenny]] will be demonetised and withdrawn from circulation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/1/newsid_2828000/2828819.stm|title=BBC on this day &#124;1&#124; 1984: Halfpenny coin to meet its maker|publisher=BBC}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://home.bt.com/news/world-news/february-1-1984-chancellor-announces-halfpenny-coin-is-to-be-scrapped-11364036844775|title=On this day: Withdrawal of halfpenny coin announced |work=bt.com}}</ref> * 7–19 February – [[Great Britain at the 1984 Winter Olympics|Great Britain and Northern Ireland]] compete at the [[1984 Winter Olympics|Winter Olympics]] in [[Sarajevo]], [[Yugoslavia]], and win one gold medal. * 12 February – [[Austin Rover]] announces that the [[Triumph Motor Company|Triumph]] marque will be discontinued this Summer after 63 years,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mrpbooks.co.uk/triumph.htm|title=MRP – Triumph cars|work=mrpbooks.co.uk|access-date=10 May 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110919230325/http://www.mrpbooks.co.uk/triumph.htm|archive-date=19 September 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> as the [[Triumph Acclaim]]'s successor will be sold as a [[Austin Rover Group|Rover]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=EcFAAAAAIBAJ&pg=4758,2389076&dq=austin-montego&hl=en|title=The Glasgow Herald – Google News Archive Search}}</ref> * 14 February – [[Torvill and Dean]] win a gold medal for [[ice skating]] at the Winter Olympics.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/14/newsid_4156000/4156053.stm|title=1984: British ice couple score Olympic gold|work=BBC News|access-date=29 January 2008|date=14 February 1984| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080131145249/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/14/newsid_4156000/4156053.stm| archive-date= 31 January 2008 | url-status= live}}</ref> ===March=== * 1 March – Labour MP [[Tony Benn]] is returned to parliament after winning the [[Chesterfield (UK Parliament constituency)|Chesterfield]] by-election, having lost his previous seat at the general election last year. * 2 March – Just five months after becoming [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] leader, [[Neil Kinnock]]'s ambition of becoming Prime Minister at the next election (due to be held by June 1988) are given a boost when Labour come top of a [[MORI]] poll with 41% of the vote (compared to the 38% attained by the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservatives]]). Just over six months ago, the Conservatives had a 16-point lead over Labour in the opinion polls. However, Kinnock is still faced with the task of overhauling a triple-digit Conservative majority.<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8280050.stm | work=BBC News | title=Poll tracker: Interactive guide to the opinion polls | date=29 September 2009}}</ref> * 12 March – [[1984–1985 United Kingdom miners' strike|Miners' strike]] begins and pits the [[National Union of Mineworkers (Great Britain)|National Union of Mineworkers]] against [[Margaret Thatcher]]'s [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] government intent on [[free market]] reform of the nationalised industries, which includes plans for the closure of most of Britain's remaining coal pits.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/12/newsid_2540000/2540175.stm|title=1984: Miners strike over threatened pit closures | work=BBC News|access-date=29 January 2008|date=12 March 1984| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080307124151/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/12/newsid_2540000/2540175.stm| archive-date= 7 March 2008 | url-status= live}}</ref> * 14 March – [[Sinn Féin]]'s [[Gerry Adams]] and three others are seriously injured in a gun attack by the [[Ulster Volunteer Force]] (UVF).<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/14/newsid_2543000/2543503.stm|title=1984: Sinn Féin leader shot in street attack | work=BBC News|access-date=29 January 2008|date=14 March 1984| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080307124442/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/14/newsid_2543000/2543503.stm| archive-date= 7 March 2008 | url-status= live}}</ref> * 21 March – [[European Economic Community]] summit breaks down over disagreement over [[UK rebate|Britain's budget rebate]] with [[Margaret Thatcher]] threatening to veto any expansion of spending plans.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/21/newsid_2546000/2546127.stm|title=1984: EEC summit collapses over rebate row|work=BBC News|access-date=29 January 2008|date=21 March 1984|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080307124323/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/21/newsid_2546000/2546127.stm|archive-date=7 March 2008|url-status=live}}</ref> * 23 March – [[Hilda Murrell]], 78-year-old rose grower and anti-nuclear campaigner, is found dead near her home in [[Shropshire]], five days after being reported missing. [[West Mercia Police]] launch a murder investigation. * 27 March – ''[[Starlight Express]]'' opens at [[Apollo Victoria Theatre]] in [[London]]. * 28 March – A greenfield site at [[Washington, Tyne and Wear|Washington]], near [[Sunderland]], is confirmed as the location for the new Nissan car factory. * 31 March – [[Chatham Dockyard]] in [[Medway]] is closed after being used a shipbuilding yard for over 400 years since the reign of [[Henry VIII]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Chatham Dockyard: Lasting impact three decades on|first=Sue|last=Nicholson|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-26615288|work=BBC News|access-date=3 June 2022|date=31 March 2014}}</ref> ===April=== * 2 April – Youth gangs run riot in [[Wolverhampton]], looting from shops.<ref name="expressandstar1976">{{cite web|url=https://www.expressandstar.com/days/1976-2000/1984.html|title=Those were the days|work=Express & Star}}</ref> * 4 April – Peace protesters evicted from the [[Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/4/newsid_2458000/2458653.stm|title=1984: Greenham Common women evicted | work=BBC News|access-date=29 January 2008|date=4 April 1984| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080307124318/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/4/newsid_2458000/2458653.stm| archive-date= 7 March 2008 | url-status= live}}</ref> * 9 April – More than 100 pickets are arrested in violent clashes at the colliery at [[Creswell, Derbyshire]], and the [[Babbington Colliery]] in [[Nottinghamshire]]. It is estimated that 46 out of 176 British coal mines are currently active as miners fight government plans to close 20 coal mines across Britain.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/9/newsid_2903000/2903651.stm|title=1984: Dozens arrested in picket line violence | work=BBC News|access-date=29 January 2008|date=9 April 1984| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080307124502/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/9/newsid_2903000/2903651.stm| archive-date= 7 March 2008 | url-status= live}}</ref> * 12 April ** [[Arthur Scargill]], the leader of the National Union of Mineworkers, rules out a national ballot of miners on whether to continue their strike, which has already lasted five weeks.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/12/newsid_2843000/2843003.stm|title=1984: Scargill vetoes national ballot on strike | work=BBC News|access-date=29 January 2008|date=12 April 1984| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080307124446/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/12/newsid_2843000/2843003.stm| archive-date= 7 March 2008 | url-status= live}}</ref> ** [[Telecommunications Act 1984]] provides for the privatisation of [[British Telecom]]. * 15 April – Comedian [[Tommy Cooper]], 63, collapses and dies on stage from a heart attack during a live televised show, ''[[Live from Her Majesty's]]''. * 17 April – [[Constable|WPC]] [[Yvonne Fletcher]] is shot and killed by a secluded gunman during a [[siege]] outside the [[Libya]]n [[Embassy]] in London in the event known as the [[1984 Libyan Embassy Siege]]. 11 other people are also shot but survive.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/17/newsid_2488000/2488369.stm|title=1984: Libyan embassy shots kill policewoman | work=BBC News|access-date=29 January 2008|date=17 April 1984| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080307124245/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/17/newsid_2488000/2488369.stm| archive-date= 7 March 2008 | url-status= live}}</ref> * 22 April – In the wake of WPC Yvonne Fletcher's death, Britain severs diplomatic relations with [[Libya]] and serves warning on its seven remaining Libyan diplomats to return to their homeland. * 25 April – [[Austin Rover]] launches its new [[Austin Montego|Montego]] four-door saloon which replaces the [[Austin Ambassador]] and [[Morris Ital]] and is derived from the [[Austin Maestro|Maestro]] hatchback. A five-door estate version of the Montego is due later this year. * 27 April – 30 Libyan diplomats leave Britain. ===May=== * 2 May – The [[Liverpool Garden Festival|Liverpool International Garden Festival]] opens in [[Liverpool]]. * 8 May – The [[Thames Barrier]], designed to protect [[London]] from floods, is opened by [[Elizabeth II|The Queen]]. * 12 May – [[Liverpool F.C.]] secure a third consecutive league title and the 15th in the club's history, despite being held to a 0–0 draw away at [[Notts County]]. * 19 May ** [[Everton F.C.|Everton]] win the [[FA Cup]], their first major trophy for 14 years, with a 2–0 win over [[Watford F.C.|Watford]] in the final at [[Wembley Stadium (1923)|Wembley Stadium]]. The goals are scored by [[Andy Gray (footballer born 1955)|Andy Gray]] and [[Graeme Sharp]]. Everton's last FA Cup triumph came in 1966, and they have now won the trophy four times.<ref>{{cite web|title=Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk&nbsp;— Everton FC&nbsp;— Everton FC News&nbsp;— FA Cup Final 1984: Everton make Elton John sing the Blues |url=http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/everton-fc/everton-fc-news/2009/05/21/fa-cup-final-1984-everton-make-elton-john-sing-the-blues-92534-23677426/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090524145248/http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/everton-fc/everton-fc-news/2009/05/21/fa-cup-final-1984-everton-make-elton-john-sing-the-blues-92534-23677426/ |archive-date=24 May 2009 |url-status=live |access-date=4 October 2009 }}</ref> ** The [[Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom|Poet Laureate]] Sir [[John Betjeman]] dies aged 77 at his home in [[Trebetherick]], Cornwall. * 23 May – 16 people are killed in the [[Abbeystead disaster]], caused by exploding methane gas. * 26 May – The football [[British Home Championship]], which has been contested by the four [[home nations]] since 1884, witnesses its last game. Northern Ireland win the trophy. * 28 May – Comedian [[Eric Morecambe]] dies of a heart attack aged 58 after collapsing on stage at the [[Roses Theatre]] in [[Tewkesbury]] the previous day. * 29 May – Fighting at Orgreave colliery between police and striking miners leaves 64 injured.<ref name=CBH/> * 30 May ** The Queen officially opens a new terminal at [[Birmingham Airport]]. The terminal has been in use since the start of last month, replacing the original terminal that opened in 1939.<ref>{{cite web |title=Birmingham International Airport History – 1980s&nbsp;– 2000 |url=http://www.birminghamairport.co.uk/showpage.aspx?id=174 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090707100004/http://www.birminghamairport.co.uk/showpage.aspx?id=174 |archive-date=7 July 2009 |url-status=dead |access-date=4 October 2009 }}</ref> ** [[Liverpool F.C.|Liverpool]] win the [[European Cup]] for the fourth time with a penalty shoot-out victory over [[AS Roma]] of [[Italy]] after a 1–1 draw in the final at [[Olympic Stadium]] in [[Rome]]. Liverpool, who have also won the [[Football League First Division]] and [[Football League Cup]] this season, are the first English club to win three major trophies in the same season.<ref>{{cite web|website=Liverweb|title=European Cup Winners 1984 – Liverpool |url=http://www.liverweb.org.uk/euro84.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100322201748/http://www.liverweb.org.uk/euro84.htm |archive-date=22 March 2010 |url-status=usurped |access-date=4 October 2009 }}</ref> ** [[Arthur Scargill]] is arrested and charged with obstruction at Orgreave. ===June=== * 1 June – [[Murder of Mark Tildesley]]: A 7-year-old boy from [[Wokingham]] in [[Berkshire]] disappears after visiting a local fairground and being abducted and killed by a paedophile group led by [[Sidney Cooke]]; only one named member of the gang is convicted of the crime (in 1992) and the victim's body will not be found (as of 2019).<ref>{{cite news|title=Paedophile in jail rape allegation|work=[[The Herald (Glasgow)|The Herald]]|location=Glasgow|date=7 January 2002|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-23496163.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924191106/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-23496163.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=24 September 2015|access-date=16 February 2020|via=HighBeam}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Police fear boy is dead|work=[[The Times]]|location=London|date=4 June 1984|page=2}}</ref> * 7 June – 120 people are arrested when fighting breaks out outside the [[Houses of Parliament]] during a mass lobby by striking miners. * 14 June – The [[1984 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom|European Parliament Election]] is held. The Tories lead the way with 45 [[MEPs]], with Labour in second place with 32. The [[SDP–Liberal Alliance]] gains 18.5% of the vote but fails to elect a single MEP.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.europarl.org.uk/section/1984-figures/european-elections-1984|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927093128/http://www.europarl.org.uk/section/1984-figures/european-elections-1984|title=The European Elections in 1984|archive-date=27 September 2011|work=europarl.org.uk}}</ref> * 15 June – A miner picketing a [[Yorkshire]] power station is killed by a lorry. * 18 June – [[Battle of Orgreave]] confrontation between picketing miners and police. * 19 June – [[Austin Rover]] launches the [[Rover 200]] saloon, the replacement for the [[Triumph Acclaim]] which marks the end of the [[Triumph Motor Company|Triumph]] brand after 61 years. Like its predecessor, the new car is the result of a venture with [[Honda]]. * 20 June – The biggest school examination shake-up in over 10 years is announced with [[General Certificate of Education|O-level]] and [[Certificate of Secondary Education|CSE]] examinations to be replaced by a new examination, the [[GCSE]]. The first GCSE courses will begin in September 1986 and will be completed in the Summer of 1988.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/20/newsid_2516000/2516847.stm|title=1984: O-Levels to be replaced by GCSEs|work=BBC News|access-date=29 January 2008|date=20 June 1984|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080307124427/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/20/newsid_2516000/2516847.stm|archive-date=7 March 2008|url-status=live}}</ref> * 22 June – The inaugural [[Virgin Atlantic]] flight takes place.<ref name="Pocket On This Day">{{cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-14-102715-0|year=2006}}</ref> * 29 June – Control of [[London Transport (brand)|London Transport]] is removed from the [[Greater London Council]] and transferred to [[London Regional Transport]] (reporting to the [[Secretary of State for Transport]]) under terms of the [[London Regional Transport Act 1984]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Michael H. C.|last=Baker|title=London Transport since 1963|location=Shepperton|publisher=[[Ian Allan Publishing]]|year=1997|isbn=0-7110-2481-2}}</ref> * 30 June – [[Elton John]] plays the famous [[Night and Day Concert]] at [[Wembley Stadium (1923)|Wembley Stadium]]. * June – British unemployment is at a record high of around 3.26 million – though a higher percentage of the nation's workforce were unemployed during the [[Great Depression]] some 50 years ago.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/jobs/5995765/Unemployment-will-reach-3m-by-Christmas.html|title=Unemployment 'will reach 3m by Christmas'|first=Alastair|last=Jamieson|date=9 August 1984|newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|location=London|access-date=19 October 2012}}</ref> ===July=== * 4 July – The government announces the abolition of dog licences. * 6 July **[[David Edward Jenkins|David Jenkins]] consecrated as [[Bishop of Durham]], despite strong objections from conservative Christians.<ref name=CBH/> **Murder of Isabel Schwarz, a psychiatric social worker, in South London. * 7 July ** The [[10th G7 summit]] held in London. ** Actress Dame [[Flora Robson]] dies of cancer aged 82 at her home in [[Brighton]]. * 9 July – A fire in the roof of [[York Minster]], probably caused by an electrical storm, causes extensive damage which is expected to cost millions of pounds to repair.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/9/newsid_2498000/2498525.stm|title=1984: Historic York Minster engulfed by flames|work=BBC News|access-date=29 January 2008|date=9 July 1984|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080307124346/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/9/newsid_2498000/2498525.stm|archive-date=7 March 2008|url-status=live}}</ref> * 12 July – [[Robert Maxwell]] buys the ''[[Daily Mirror]]'' for £113.4 million. * 13 July - Paul O'Reilly was born to destroy pussy, knocking Karl Lippett from his throne. * 18 July – The general-interest magazine ''[[Tit-Bits]]'' closes after 104 years. * 19 July ** A [[1984 Llŷn Peninsula earthquake|magnitude 5.4 earthquake]] with an [[epicentre]] in the [[Llŷn Peninsula]] of [[North Wales]] is felt throughout the United Kingdom.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/macroseismics/lleynpeninsula_macro.htm|title=Llŷn Peninsula Earthquake Macroseismic|access-date=23 May 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080317015059/http://www.earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/macroseismics/lleynpeninsula_macro.htm|archive-date=17 March 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref> ** [[Neil Kinnock]]'s hopes of becoming Prime Minister are given a boost by the latest [[MORI]] poll which puts Labour three points ahead of the Conservatives on 40%, * 26 July – [[Trade Union Act 1984|Trade Union Act]] prohibits unions from striking without a ballot.<ref name=CBH/> * 28 July–12 August – [[Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the 1984 Summer Olympics|Great Britain and Northern Ireland]] compete at the [[1984 Summer Olympics|Olympics]] in [[Los Angeles, California]], and win 5 gold, 11 silver and 21 bronze medals. ===August=== * 2 August – A [[Surrey]] businessman wins a case in the [[European Court of Human Rights]] over illegal phone tapping by the police.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/2/newsid_2526000/2526957.stm|title=1984: Euro Court condemns phone-tapping|work=BBC News|access-date=29 January 2008|date=2 August 1984| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080101095632/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/2/newsid_2526000/2526957.stm| archive-date= 1 January 2008 | url-status= live}}</ref> * 11 August – Barefoot South African runner [[Zola Budd]], controversially granted [[British citizenship]] earlier in the year, collides with [[Mary Decker]] in the 3000 meters final at the Olympics, neither finishing as medallists.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/11/newsid_3561000/3561846.stm|title=1984: Zola Budd in race trip controversy|work=BBC News|access-date=29 January 2008|date=11 August 1984| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080123213239/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/11/newsid_3561000/3561846.stm| archive-date= 23 January 2008 | url-status= live}}</ref> * 24 August – [[Vauxhall Motors|Vauxhall]] unveils the [[Vauxhall Astra|Mk2 Astra]] which will go on sale in October.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=-MJAAAAAIBAJ&pg=5584,4594710&dq=vauxhall-astra&hl=en|title=The Glasgow Herald – Google News Archive Search}}</ref> ===September=== * 6 September – A [[MORI]] poll shows that the Conservatives now have a slim lead over Labour for the first time this year.<ref name="autogenerated1"/> * 7 September – An outbreak of [[food poisoning]] in two [[Yorkshire]] hospitals has so far claimed 22 lives in the space of two weeks.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/7/newsid_2502000/2502839.stm | work=BBC News | title=1984: Epidemic 'spreads to second hospital' | date=7 September 1984}}</ref> * 10 September – Geneticist [[Alec Jeffreys]] discovers [[DNA fingerprinting]].<ref name="Pocket On This Day"/> * 11 September – Police arrest [[Malcolm Fairley]] at an address in [[Kentish Town]], London, following a nationwide manhunt for the sex attacker known as The Fox.<ref name=WearsideOnline>{{Cite web|url=https://wearsideonline.com/malcolm-fairley-aka-the-fox/|title=Malcolm Fairley AKA The Fox &#124; Serial Rapist From Sunderland|date=Oct 12, 2018|access-date=Jan 23, 2021}}</ref> * 15–16 September – Bones believed to be those of St [[Edward the Martyr]] (King of England, 975–978) are enshrined in the [[Church of St. Edward the Martyr, Brookwood]], Surrey.<ref>{{cite web|title=St Edward the Martyr|work=Necropolis Notables|publisher=The [[Brookwood Cemetery]] Society|url=http://www.tbcs.org.uk/st_edward_the_martyr.htm|date=24 February 2006|access-date=23 May 2020|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151106070324/http://www.tbcs.org.uk/st_edward_the_martyr.htm|archive-date=6 November 2015}}</ref> * 15 September – [[Diana, Princess of Wales|The Princess of Wales (Diana)]] gives birth to her second [[Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex|son]]. * 16 September – The one-day-old son of the Prince and Princess of Wales ([[Charles III|Charles]] and Diana) is named as Henry Charles Albert David. * 24 September – Four pupils and their teacher die and a further six pupils are injured when a roll of steel from a lorry crushes their minibus near [[Stuart Bathurst RC High School]] in [[Wednesbury]], [[West Midlands (county)|West Midlands]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.itnsource.com/shotlist//ITN/1984/09/24/127727/?s=Wednesbury |title=Minibus Crash |work=itnsource.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719185651/http://www.itnsource.com/shotlist//RTV/2007/02/16/RTV248507/ |archive-date=19 July 2011 }}</ref> * 26 September – The United Kingdom and the People's Republic of China sign the initial agreement to return [[Hong Kong]] to China in 1997.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/26/newsid_2538000/2538843.stm|title=1984: UK and China agree Hong Kong handover|work=BBC News|access-date=29 January 2008|date=26 September 1984| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080103002517/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/26/newsid_2538000/2538843.stm| archive-date= 3 January 2008 | url-status= live}}</ref> * 28 September – The [[High Court of Justice|High Court]] rules that the miner's strike is unlawful. ===October=== * 1 October – [[David Edward Jenkins|David Jenkins]], [[Bishop of Durham]], launches an attack on Margaret Thatcher's social policies. The [[County Durham|Durham]] area has been particularly hard hit by factory and mine closures since her election as Prime Minister five years ago. * 3 October – Plans to expand the [[Urban Enterprise Zone]] in [[Dudley]], [[West Midlands (county)|West Midlands]], are approved; developers Don and Roy Richardson get the go-ahead to build a [[Merry Hill Shopping Centre|retail park and shopping mall]] on the main part of the site. The first tenants will move to the site next year and the development is expected in the next 18 months, with scope for further service sector developments in the future.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/manuals/camanual/ca37600.htm|title=CA37600 – IBA: enterprise zones: list of enterprise zones|publisher=Government of the United Kingdom}}</ref> * 5 October – Police in [[Essex]] make the largest cannabis seizure in British criminal history when a multimillion-pound stash of the drug is found on a [[schooner]] moored on the [[River Crouch]] near [[North Fambridge]] village.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/5/newsid_2492000/2492785.stm|title=1984: Essex police make record drugs haul|work=BBC News|access-date=29 January 2008|date=5 October 1984|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080307124425/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/5/newsid_2492000/2492785.stm|archive-date= 7 March 2008 | url-status= live}}</ref> *9 October – ''[[Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends]]'' is first broadcast on [[ITV (TV channel)|ITV]], becoming one of the most successful children's TV programmes of all time since ''[[Postman Pat]]'' on the BBC three years prior. * 10 October – The High Court fines the NUM £200,000 and [[Arthur Scargill]] £1,000 for contempt of court. * 12 October – The [[Provisional Irish Republican Army]] attempts to assassinate the Conservative [[Cabinet of the United Kingdom|cabinet]] in the [[Brighton hotel bombing]]. [[Margaret Thatcher]] escapes unharmed, but [[Member of Parliament|MP]] [[Anthony Berry]] and four other people are killed, whilst [[Norman Tebbit]] is trapped among the rubble and his wife Margaret is seriously injured.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/12/newsid_2531000/2531583.stm|title=1984: Tory Cabinet in Brighton bomb blast|work=BBC News|access-date=29 January 2008|date=12 October 1984|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080307124506/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/12/newsid_2531000/2531583.stm|archive-date=7 March 2008|url-status=live}}</ref> * 13 October – Darts player [[John Lowe (darts player)|John Lowe]] achieves the first televised [[nine dart finish]].<ref name="Pocket On This Day"/> * 16 October ** There is good news for the state-owned car maker [[Austin Rover]]. On the day that a facelifted version of its top-selling [[Austin Metro]], now available as a five-door as well as a three-door is launched, it is announced that sales for September have increased by 39% over the same period last year. The pre-facelift Metro was Britain's best selling car last month, while the [[Austin Maestro|Maestro]] (launched 19 months ago) was the second best seller ahead of its key rival the [[Ford Escort (Europe)|Ford Escort]] and the six-month-old [[Austin Montego]] was the fifth best seller ahead of the [[Ford Sierra]] as an estate version of it launches.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ccFAAAAAIBAJ&pg=5036,3607342&dq=ford-sierra&hl=en|title=Metro adds to its range as it goes to top of sales league|first=Hugh|last=Hunston|newspaper=[[Glasgow Herald]]|date=16 October 1984|page=11|access-date=19 October 2012}}</ref> ** ''[[The Bill]]'', the long-running police drama, airs for the first time on [[ITV (TV channel)|ITV]]. It debuted last year as a pilot show ''Wooden Top''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/the-bill/|title=The Bill|work=tv.com|access-date=19 October 2012|archive-date=14 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201114002102/http://www.tv.com/shows/the-bill/|url-status=dead}}</ref> When the last episode is shown in 2010 it will be the longest-running police procedural in British television history. * 18 October – Support for the Conservative government is reported to be improving after several months of dismal poll showings, with the latest [[MORI]] poll putting them nine points ahead of Labour on 44%.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ipsos-mori.com/researchpublications/researcharchive/poll.aspx?oItemId=103 |title=Ipsos MORI |work=ipsos-mori.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120923031349/http://www.ipsos-mori.com/researchpublications/researcharchive/poll.aspx?oItemId=103 |archive-date=23 September 2012 }}</ref> * 23 October – [[BBC News]] presenter [[Michael Buerk]] gives a powerful commentary of the famine in [[Ethiopia]] which has already claimed thousands of lives and reportedly has the potential to claim the lives of as many as 7 million more people. Numerous British charities including [[Oxfam]] and [[Save the Children]] begin collection work to aid the famine victims who are mostly encamped near the town of [[Korem]]. * 31 October – [[Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984]] passed, codifying police powers in investigating suspects. ===November=== * 5 November – 800 miners cease striking and return to work. * 15 November – The [[General Synod]] of the [[Church of England]] support the ordination of women as [[deacon]]s, but not as full priests.<ref name=CBH/> * 19 November – The number of working miners increases to around 62,000 when nearly 3,000 striking miners return to work. * 20 November – [[British Telecom]] shares go on sale in the biggest share issue ever.<ref name="expressandstar1976"/> Two million people (5% of the adult population) buy shares, almost doubling the number of share owners in Britain.<ref>{{cite book|first=Andrew|author-link=Andrew Marr|last=Marr|title=A History of Modern Britain|location=London|publisher=Macmillan|year=2007|isbn=978-1-4050-0538-8|pages=430–1}}</ref> * 22 November – ''[[Council of Civil Service Unions v Minister for the Civil Service]]'', a leading case in [[UK constitutional law]], is decided in the [[Judicial functions of the House of Lords|House of Lords]], ruling that [[Royal prerogative in the United Kingdom|royal prerogative]] is subject to [[Judicial review in English law|judicial review]], although the government's action in preventing staff of [[GCHQ]] from joining a trade union can be justified on national security grounds.<ref>[http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKHL/1984/9.html UKHL 9].</ref> * 23 November – The [[Oxford Circus fire]] traps around 1,000 passengers on the [[London Underground]] but nobody is killed.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/23/newsid_2547000/2547639.stm|title=1984: London tube fire traps hundreds|work=BBC News|access-date=29 January 2008|date=23 November 1984|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080307124310/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/23/newsid_2547000/2547639.stm|archive-date=7 March 2008 | url-status=live}}</ref> * 25 November – 36 of Britain and [[Ireland]]'s top [[pop music]]ians gather in a [[Notting Hill]] studio to form [[Band Aid (band)|Band Aid]] and [[Sound recording|record]] the song "[[Do They Know It's Christmas]]" in order to raise money for [[famine relief]] in [[Ethiopia]]. * 28 November – The British Telecom share offer closes. * 30 November ** Tension in the miners' strike increases when two [[South Wales]] miners are charged with [[Killing of David Wilkie|the murder of taxi driver David Wilkie]], 35, who died when a concrete block was dropped on his car from a road bridge. The passenger in his car, who escaped with minor injuries, was a [[Strikebreaker|miner who had defied the strike]] and continued going to work. ** The UK and French governments announce their intention to seek private promoters for the construction of the [[Channel Tunnel]] in order to build and operate it without public funding. The tunnel, for which proposals were first made as far back as 1802, is expected to be open in the early-1990s. The tunnel would be formally opened in a ceremony in 1994 by [[Queen Elizabeth II]] and the [[President of France]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eurotunnelgroup.com/uk/the-channel-tunnel/history/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120722224731/http://www.eurotunnelgroup.com/uk/the-channel-tunnel/history/|title=History|author=Eurotunnel|archive-date=22 July 2012|work=eurotunnelgroup.com}}</ref> ===December=== * 3 December ** [[British Telecom]] is privatised. ** The Band Aid charity single is released. * 10 December ** [[Richard Stone]] wins the [[Nobel Prize in Economics]] "for having made fundamental contributions to the development of systems of national accounts and hence greatly improved the basis for empirical economic analysis".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/1984/|title=The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1984|access-date=29 January 2008}}</ref> ** [[César Milstein]] wins the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] jointly with [[Niels Kaj Jerne]] and [[Georges J. F. Köhler]] "for theories concerning the specificity in development and control of the immune system and the discovery of the principle for production of monoclonal antibodies".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1984/|title=The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1984|access-date=29 January 2008}}</ref> * 11 December – [[Band Aid (band)|Band Aid]]'s "[[Do They Know It's Christmas?]]" goes to the top of the [[UK Singles Chart]]. * 12 December – [[Bucks Fizz]], the highly successful pop group, are involved in a road accident near [[Newcastle upon Tyne]] when their [[tour bus]] crashes in icy road conditions after a [[concert]]. [[Bobby Gee]], [[Cheryl Baker]] and [[Jay Aston]] escape with relatively minor injuries, but [[Mike Nolan (singer)|Mike Nolan]] is in a serious condition.<ref>{{cite web|title=Rafaels and Stefans pictures |url=http://www.raffem.com/BucksFizz85till2003.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090508114316/http://www.raffem.com/BucksFizz85till2003.htm |archive-date=8 May 2009 |url-status=live |access-date=25 April 2009 }}</ref> * 14 December – [[Arthur Scargill]], president of the NUM, is fined £250 and ordered to pay £750 for his involvement in the rioting at Orgreave coking plant on 29 May this year. He decides against appealing his convictions, despite his lawyers advising him to do so.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/14/newsid_2559000/2559643.stm |work=BBC News |title=1984: Court fines Scargill for obstruction |date=14 December 1984 |access-date=29 May 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090620191308/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/14/newsid_2559000/2559643.stm |archive-date=20 June 2009 |url-status=live }}</ref> * 16 December – [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] of the [[Soviet Union]] visits Britain.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/16/newsid_2560000/2560125.stm|title=1984: Gorbachev visit to Britain a 'success' | work=BBC News|access-date=29 January 2008|date=16 December 1984| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080307124241/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/16/newsid_2560000/2560125.stm| archive-date= 7 March 2008 | url-status= live}}</ref> * 18 December – The government announces the privatisation of the [[Trustee Savings Bank]]. * 19 December ** The People's Republic of China and the United Kingdom sign the [[Sino-British Joint Declaration]] which will see the whole of the [[British Overseas Territory]] of [[Hong Kong]] returning to Chinese control in 13 years.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/19/newsid_2538000/2538857.stm|title=1984: Britain signs over Hong Kong to China|work=BBC News|access-date=29 January 2008|date=19 December 1984|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080307124450/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/19/newsid_2538000/2538857.stm|archive-date=7 March 2008|url-status=live}}</ref> ** [[Ted Hughes]]' appointment as [[Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom|Poet Laureate]] in succession to Sir [[John Betjeman]] is announced,<ref>{{cite news|title='True poet' Ted Hughes is Laureate|first=Philip|last=Howard|newspaper=[[The Times]]|date=20 December 1984|page=1|issue=62017}}</ref> [[Philip Larkin]] having turned down the post. * 21 December – The three-month-old son of The Prince and Princess of Wales is [[Infant baptism|christened]] [[Henry Charles Albert David]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.royal.gov.uk/LatestNewsandDiary/Pressreleases/2004/AnnouncementofthechristeningofLadyLouiseWindsor.aspx |title=Announcement of the christening of Lady Louise Windsor |work=The British Monarchy |publisher=[[Royal Households of the United Kingdom#The Royal Household|The Royal Household]] |date=8 April 2004 |access-date=21 January 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131231001852/http://www.royal.gov.uk/LatestNewsandDiary/Pressreleases/2004/AnnouncementofthechristeningofLadyLouiseWindsor.aspx |archive-date=31 December 2013 }}</ref> (He is and always has been called "Harry"). * 22 December – Band Aid's charity single is this year's [[Christmas number one]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.onlineweb.com/theones/1980_1984.htm|title=The 1980s|work=Number Ones|access-date=2 April 2013}}</ref> * 31 December – [[Rick Allen (drummer)|Rick Allen]], drummer of [[Def Leppard]], loses his left arm in a car accident on the [[A57 road]] at [[Snake Pass]]. ===Undated=== * Non-diocesan [[Bishop at Lambeth]] first appointed within the Church of England. * [[Vauxhall Motors|Vauxhall]] have a successful year in the motor industry. It has reported that its market share has doubled since 1981 and the year ends on an even bigger high when its [[Vauxhall Astra|MK2 Astra]] range is elected [[European Car of the Year]]. * Despite unemployment reaching a peak of nearly 3.3million this year (with the highest unemployment rate recorded since 1971 of 11.9% in February), inflation is still low at 5%.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100216052013/http://www.parliament.uk/commons/lib/research/rp99/rp99-020.pdf WebCite query result<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> * Youth unemployment (covering the 16–24 age range) stands at a record 1,200,000 – more than a third of the total unemployment count.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/jobs/8891863/Youth-unemployment-reaches-1986-levels.html|work=The Daily Telegraph|first=Donna|last=Bowater|title=Youth unemployment reaches 1986 levels|date=16 November 2011|access-date=16 November 2011|location=London}}</ref> ==Publications== * [[Douglas Adams]]' novel ''[[So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish]]''. * [[J. G. Ballard]]'s novel ''[[Empire of the Sun (novel)|Empire of the Sun]]''. * [[Iain Banks]]'s novel ''[[The Wasp Factory]]''. * [[Julian Barnes]]'s novel ''[[Flaubert's Parrot]]''. * [[Anita Brookner]]'s novel ''[[Hotel du Lac]]''. * [[Angela Carter]]'s novel ''[[Nights at the Circus]]''. * [[Alasdair Gray]]'s novel ''[[1982, Janine]]'' * [[David Lodge (author)|David Lodge]]’s novel ''[[Small World: An Academic Romance]]''. * [[Mary Wesley]]'s novel ''[[The Camomile Lawn]]''. ==Births== * 7 January – [[George Gilbey]], English television personality (d. [[2024 in the United Kingdom|2024]]) * 15 January – [[Natasia Demetriou]], English actress * 17 January – [[Calvin Harris]], Scottish electropop singer-songwriter, musician, DJ and record producer * 28 January **[[Ben Clucas]], English racing driver **[[Anne Panter]], field hockey player * 12 February – [[Jennie McAlpine]], actress * 14 February – [[Stephanie Leonidas]], actress * 27 February – [[Catriona Forrest]], Scottish field hockey player * 28 March – [[Nikki Sanderson]], actress * 8 April – [[Michelle Donelan]], politician * 21 April – [[Bhavna Limbachia]], actress * 22 April **[[Michelle Ryan]], actress **Phillip Magee, Northern Irish singer and [[The X Factor (British series 2)]] finalist * 4 May – [[Little Boots]] (Victoria Hesketh), electropop singer-songwriter, musician, DJ and record producer * 15 May – [[Alex Brooker]], journalist and television presenter * 22 May – [[Clara Amfo]], radio and television presenter * 10 June – [[Ryan Thomas]], actor * 25 June – [[Amrita Hunjan]], singer * 7 July – [[Adam Paul Harvey]], actor * 8 July – [[TotalBiscuit]], internet personality (d. [[2018 in the United Kingdom|2018]]) * 12 July ** [[Gareth Gates]], singer ** [[Florence Hoath]], actress * 18 July – [[Lee Barnard]], footballer * 8 August – [[Owen Jones]], journalist and political commentator * 19 August – [[Simon Bird]], actor and comedian * 5 September – [[Annabelle Wallis]], actress * 15 September – [[Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex]] * 26 September – [[Keisha Buchanan]], singer * 28 September ** [[Simon Clarke (politician)|Simon Clarke]], politician ** [[Helen Oyeyemi]], novelist * 14 October – [[Alex Scott (footballer, born 1984)|Alex Scott]], English footballer and sports commentator<ref>{{cite web |title=Alex Scott |url=https://www.eurosport.co.uk/football/alex-scott_prs53054/person.shtml |website=www.eurosport.com |access-date=17 December 2022}}</ref> * 16 October – [[Shayne Ward]], singer * 18 October – [[Milo Yiannopoulos]], alt-right commentator * 25 October – [[Adam MacKenzie]], Scottish field hockey defender * 27 October – [[Kelly Osbourne]], singer * 5 November – [[Nick Tandy]], racing driver * 8 November – [[Steven Webb]], actor * 26 November – [[Jayde Adams]], comedian * 30 November – [[Alan Hutton]], Scottish footballer * 7 December – [[Laura Trott (politician)|Laura Trott]], politician * 10 December – [[Mark Applegarth]], English rugby player * 14 December – [[Chris Brunt]], footballer * 21 December – [[Darren Potter]], footballer * 25 December – [[Nadiya Hussain]], television chef and broadcaster * 28 December **[[Leroy Lita]], footballer **[[Alex Lloyd (racing driver)|Alex Lloyd]], racing driver ==Deaths== ===January=== [[File:Alexis-Korner.jpg|thumb|upright|135px|[[Alexis Korner]]]] [[File:7th Earl of Warwick 1933.jpg|thumb|upright|135px|[[Charles Greville, 7th Earl of Warwick]]]] [[File:Sir John William McNee. Photograph by T. & R. Annan & Sons L Wellcome V0026789.jpg|thumb|upright|135px|[[John William McNee]]]] * 1 January ** [[Patrick Douglas Baird]], glaciologist (born 1912) ** [[A. E. Clouston]], test pilot and Royal Air Force Air Commodore (born 1909) ** [[Billy Hill (gangster)|Billy Hill]], gangster (born 1911) ** [[Alexis Korner]], musician (born 1928) ** [[Allen Wheeler]], pilot and Royal Air Force Air Commodore (born 1903) * 3 January ** [[Fergus McDonell]], film director (born 1910) ** Sir [[Morris Sugden]], physical chemist (born 1919) * 4 January ** Sir [[Wilfred Burns (town planner)|Wilfred Burns]], town planner (born 1923) ** [[Jameson Clark]], actor (born 1907) ** Sir [[Sir Kenneth Thompson, 1st Baronet|Kenneth Thompson]], politician and former Member of parliament for [[Liverpool Walton]] (born 1909) * 5 January – [[Thomas Bloomer]], Bishop of Carlisle (born 1894) * 6 January – [[Ronald Lewin]], military historian (born 1914) * 7 January ** [[Beresford Egan]], satirical draughtsman, painter, novelist and playwright (born 1905) ** [[Walter Forde]], actor (born 1898) * 8 January ** [[John Breck (actor)|John Breck]], actor (born 1953) ** [[Harry Selby]], politician, Member of Parliament for [[Glasgow Govan (UK Parliament constituency)|Glasgow Govan]] * 9 January ** [[John Brough (orientalist)|John Brough]], oriental scholar (born 1917) ** Sir [[Frederick Gibberd]], architect (born 1908) ** [[Thomas Murchison]], Scottish Presbyterian minister and scholar (born 1907) * 10 January ** [[Lancelot Stephen Bosanquet]], mathematician (born 1903) ** [[Alasdair Clayre]], author, broadcaster, singer-songwriter and academic (born 1935) ** [[Binnie Hale]], actress (born 1899) ** Sir [[Ernest Albert Vasey]], colonial politician and former actor (born 1901) **[[Christopher Woolner]], senior army officer (born 1893) * 13 January ** [[Ian Campbell (artist, born 1902)|Ian Campbell]], artist (born 1902) ** [[Michael Shanks (journalist)|Michael Shanks]], journalist (born 1927) ** [[Tommy Younger]], Scottish footballer (born 1930) * 16 January ** [[Joan Liversidge]], archaeologist (born 1914) ** [[Enid Porter]], museum curator (born 1908) * 17 January – [[Geoffrey Bell (cricketer)|Geoffrey Bell]], English cricketer (born 1896) * 20 January – [[Charles Greville, 7th Earl of Warwick]], peer (born 1911) * 21 January – [[Hywel Murrell]], psychiatrist (born 1908) * 22 January – [[Noël Bowater]], Lord Mayor of London (born 1892) * 26 January ** [[Grahame Clifford]], actor and opera singer (born 1905) ** Sir [[John William McNee]], bacteriologist (born 1887) * 28 January – [[Bill Radcliffe]], Manx language activist (born 1917) * 31 January – [[John Eric Miers Macgregor]], conservation architect (born 1890) ===February=== [[File:Henry Hugh Arthur Fitzroy Somerset, 10th Duke of Beaufort.jpg|thumb|upright|135px|[[Henry Somerset, 10th Duke of Beaufort]]]] [[File:John Comer.png|thumb|upright|135px|[[John Comer]]]] * 4 February ** [[Alan Buchanan (bishop)|Alan Buchanan]], bishop (born 1905) ** [[Dorothy Davison]], writer and artist (born 1889) ** [[Frederick Lee, Baron Lee of Newton]], politician (born 1906) * 5 February – [[Henry Somerset, 10th Duke of Beaufort]], peer (born 1900) * 7 February – [[Gerald Palmer (author)|Gerald Palmer]], author and politician (born 1904) * 8 February – [[Mabel Crout]], politician (born 1890) * 9 February ** [[Derrick Sherwin Bailey]], theologian (born 1910) ** [[Mary Skeaping]], ballet teacher (born 1902) * 10 February ** [[Ioan Evans (politician)|Ioan Evans]], politician (born 1927) ** [[Fred Hill (activist)|Fred Hill]], activist against the wearing of crash helmets by motorcyclists (born 1909; died in prison) ** [[Redvers Opie]], economist (born 1900) * 11 February ** [[John Comer]], actor (born 1924) ** [[Theodore William Moody]], historian (born 1907, Ireland) * 12 February – [[Tom Keating]], art restorer (born 1917) * 16 February – [[Lucius Thompson-McCausland]], economist (born 1904) * 18 February – [[Paul Gardiner]], musician (overdose) (born 1958) * 22 February – [[Max Newman]], mathematician and World War II codebreaker (born 1897) * 26 February – Dame [[Elizabeth Hoyer-Millar]], naval officer (born 1910) * 28 February – [[Joseph Leftwich]], Dutch-born critic and translator (born 1892) * 29 February – [[Alexander Murray Drennan]], pathologist (born 1884) ===March=== [[File:Henry Wilcoxon as Marc Antony.jpg|thumb|upright|135px|[[Henry Wilcoxon]]]] [[File:Peg Maltby.jpg|thumb|upright|135px|[[Peg Maltby]]]] [[File:Arnold Ridley 1921.jpg|thumb|upright|135px|[[Arnold Ridley]]]] * 1 March ** [[Roland Culver]], actor (born 1900) ** [[Jeffrey Rowbotham]], architect (born 1920) ** [[Peter Walker (racing driver)|Peter Walker]], racing driver (born 1912) * 3 March ** [[John Adams (physicist)|John Adams]], physicist (born 1920) ** [[Brian Downs]], literary scholar and linguist (born 1893) ** [[Harry Hudson Rodmell]], artist (born 1896) ** [[Rinty Monaghan]], Northern Irish boxer (born 1918) ** [[Kathleen Richards]], pianist and composer (born 1895) * 4 March ** [[Basil Lam]], harpsichordist, musical scholar and radio presenter (born 1914) ** [[Geoffrey Lumsden]], actor (born 1914) * 6 March ** Sir [[Leslie Farrer]], lawyer (born 1900) ** [[Hugh Fraser (British politician)|Hugh Fraser]], politician (born 1918) ** [[Henry Wilcoxon]], actor (born 1905) * 10 March – [[Maurice Macmillan]], Conservative Party MP and son of former prime minister [[Harold Macmillan]] (born 1921) * 11 March ** [[Douglas Bliss]], painter and art conservationist (born 1900, British India) ** [[Charles Hodson, Baron Hodson]], judge (born 1895) * 12 March ** [[L. M. Harrod]], librarian (born 1905) ** [[Peg Maltby]], British-born Australian writer and illustrator (born 1899) ** [[Arnold Ridley]], playwright and actor (born 1896) ** [[Leslie R. H. Willis]], archaeologist (born 1908) * 16 March ** [[Reginald Bonham]], blind chess player (born 1906) ** [[Lucius Cary, 14th Viscount Falkland]], Scottish peer (born 1905) * 17 March ** [[Alastair Cram]], Army major (born 1909) ** [[John Dearth]], actor (born 1920) * 24 March – [[Harold Shearman]], politician (born 1896) * c. 24 March – [[Hilda Murrell]], horticulturalist and anti-nuclear activist (murdered) (born 1906) * 26 March – [[Sylva Stuart Watson]], theatre director (born 1894) * 27 March ** [[Winifred Crossley Fair]], aviator (born 1906) ** [[Derek Francis]], actor (born 1923) ** [[Reg Pratt]], businessman and owner of [[West Ham United]] (1950–1979) (born 1905) * 28 March – [[Ian Stephens (editor)|Ian Stephens]], journalist (born 1903) * 29 March – [[Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor]], politician, [[Home Secretary]] (1962–1964) * 31 March – [[Jack Howarth (actor)|Jack Howarth]], actor (born 1896) ===April=== [[File:Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris.jpg|thumb|upright|135px|[[Arthur Travers Harris]]]] [[File:William Empson (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright|135px|[[William Empson]]]] * 1 April ** [[Douglas Cooper (art historian)|Douglas Cooper]], art historian and collector (born 1911) ** [[Vera Dart]], politician (born 1892) ** [[Elizabeth Goudge]], children's author (born 1900) ** [[William Kendall (actor)|William Kendall]], actor (born 1903) * 3 April – [[Arthur Pickles]], architect and politician (born 1901) * 4 April ** [[William Henderson, 1st Baron Henderson]], politician (born 1891) ** Sir [[Otway Herbert]], Army general (born 1901) ** [[Beryl Smalley]], historian (born 1905) * 5 April ** [[Robert Adams (sculptor)|Robert Adams]], sculptor (born 1917) ** Sir [[Basil Eugster]], Army general (born 1914) ** Sir [[Arthur Travers Harris]], Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of RAF Bomber Command during the Second World War (born 1892) ** [[Sidney Webster]], RAF vice-marshal (born 1900) * 6 April – [[Nan Green]], Spanish Civil War nurse and statistician (born 1904) * 9 April – Sir [[Basil Blackwell]], publisher (born 1889) * 10 April – [[Elva Blacker]], artist (born 1908) * 11 April – [[John Lloyd Thomas]], Anglican priest (born 1908) * 14 April – [[Thorold Dickinson]], film director and producer (born 1903) * 15 April ** [[Tommy Cooper]], comedian and magician (born 1921) ** [[William Empson]], poet and literary critic (born 1906) ** [[Walter Padley]], politician (born 1916) ** [[Robert Russell Race]], physician and geneticist (born 1907) ** [[Alexander Trocchi]], writer (born 1925) * 17 April – [[Clare Winnicott]], social worker and teacher (born 1906) * 20 April ** [[Mabel Mercer]], British-born American singer (born 1900) ** [[A. R. Rawlinson]], Army lieutenant-colonel (born 1894) * 21 April – [[Marjorie Brierley]], psychoanalyst (born 1893) * 23 April ** [[Harry Hibbs (footballer)|Harry Hibbs]], English footballer (born 1906) ** Sir [[Roland Penrose]], Surrealist painter and art collector (born 1900) * 26 April ** [[Barry Gray]], composer and musician (born 1908) ** [[Sybil Morrison]], suffragist and pacifist (born 1893) * 28 April – [[Phyllis Digby Morton]], fashion journalist (born 1901) * 30 April – [[Marcus Dods (musician)|Marcus Dods]], composer and musician (born 1918) ===May=== [[File:Portret van Diana Dors, Bestanddeelnr 921-7796 (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright|135px|[[Diana Dors]]]] [[File:Sir John Betjeman (1906-1984).jpg|thumb|upright|135px|[[John Betjeman]]]] [[File:EricMorecambe1963.jpg|thumb|upright|135px|[[Eric Morecambe]]]] * 1 May – [[Muriel Herbert]], composer (born 1897) * 2 May ** [[Frank Forsyth]], actor (born 1905) ** [[Meredith Thomas]], RAF vice-marshal (born 1892) * 4 May – [[Diana Dors]], actress (born 1931) * 6 May ** [[Bonner Pink]], politician (born 1912) ** [[Ernest Shufflebotham]], potter and pottery designer (born 1908) * 7 May – [[James Purdon Martin]], neurologist (born 1893) * 8 May – [[David Williams (geologist, born 1898)|David Williams]], geologist (born 1898) * 15 May ** [[Mary Adams (broadcaster)|Mary Adams]], television producer and social researcher (born 1898) ** Sir [[Geoffrey Arthur]], academic administrator and diplomat (born 1920) ** Sir [[Alec Bishop]], Army major-general (born 1897) ** [[Michael Noble, Baron Glenkinglas]], politician (born 1913) ** [[Lionel Robbins]], economist (born 1898) * 16 May ** [[Ruth Ainsworth]], author of children's books (born 1908) ** [[Jean Donald]], Scottish golfer (born 1921) * 19 May ** Sir [[John Betjeman]], writer and poet laureate (born 1906) ** [[Dorothy Hutton]], painter and printmaker (born 1889) * 20 May – [[Richard Coleridge, 4th Baron Coleridge]], peer and Royal Navy officer (born 1905) * 24 May – Sir [[Stanley Hooker]], mathematician and aircraft engineer (born 1907) * 25 May – Sir [[Charles James Buchanan]], Army officer (born 1899) * 26 May ** [[Vera Stanley Alder]], artist and mystic (born 1898) ** [[Mary Taylor Slow]], physicist (born 1898) * 27 May – [[Reginald Bosanquet]], journalist and broadcaster (born 1932) * 28 May – [[Eric Morecambe]], comedian (born 1926) * 29 May – [[Edward Curzon, 6th Earl Howe]], peer (born 1908) * 30 May ** [[Harold Cottam]], wireless operator who received the distress call from the [[RMS Titanic|RMS ''Titanic'']] (born 1891) ** [[Michael Elliott (director)|Michael Elliott]], theatre and television director (born 1931) ===June=== [[File:Estelle-Winwood-1920-1.jpg|thumb|upright|135px|[[Estelle Winwood]]]] [[File:Webster Booth North Wales 1981.jpg|thumb|upright|135px|[[Webster Booth]]]] * 1 June – [[Francis St David Benwell Lejeune]], Army major-general (born 1899) * 2 June ** [[Piers Flint-Shipman]], actor (road accident) (born 1962) ** [[George Silver (actor)|George Silver]], actor (born 1916) * 3 June ** Sir [[John MacLeod (Ross and Cromarty MP)|John MacLeod]], Scottish politician (born 1913) ** [[Peter Wilson (auctioneer)|Peter Wilson]], auctioneer (born 1913) * 6 June ** [[Edith Sharpe]], actress (born 1894) ** [[Hugh Sykes Davies]], poet and novelist (born 1909) * 7 June – [[Ethel Gee]], Soviet spy (born 1914) * 8 June ** [[John Baker (biologist)|John Baker]], biologist (born 1900) ** [[David Boyle, 9th Earl of Glasgow]], peer and Royal Navy admiral (born 1910) * 12 June – [[Sydney Smith (British politician)|Sydney Smith]], politician (born 1885) * 13 June ** Sir [[George Baker (judge)|George Baker]], judge (born 1910) ** Sir [[David Evans (microbiologist)|David Evans]], microbiologist (born 1909) * 14 June – Sir [[Noël Hutton]], parliamentary draftsman (born 1907) * 16 June – Sir [[John Randall (physicist)|John Randall]], physicist (born 1905) * 18 June ** Sir [[Idris Foster]], Welsh scholar (born 1911) ** [[Geoffrey Hirst]], politician (born 1904) * 19 June – Sir [[Anthony Selway]], RAF air marshal (born 1909) * 20 June – [[Estelle Winwood]], actress (born 1883) * 21 June – [[Webster Booth]], operatic tenor (born 1902) * 22 June – [[Dill Jones]], pianist (born 1923) * 23 June – [[Cecil Parrott]], diplomat and translator (born 1909) * 24 June – [[Tommy Godfrey]], actor (born 1916) * 25 June – [[Reg Dixon (comedian)|Reg Dixon]], comedian (born 1915) * 27 June – [[Arnold Shaw (politician)|Arnold Shaw]], politician (born 1909) * 28 June – [[Gavin Astor, 2nd Baron Astor of Hever]], peer, publisher and soldier (born 1918) * 29 June ** [[W. B. Fisher]], geographer (born 1916)<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Chester |first=David |date=2023 |title=William Bayne Fisher (1916-1984) |url=https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3168611 |journal=Geographers Biobibliographical Studies |language=en |id={{CORE|560687880}}}}</ref> ** [[Paul Gore-Booth, Baron Gore-Booth]], diplomat (born 1909) ** [[Audrey Richards]], sociologist (born 1899) ===July=== [[File:Studio publicity Flora Robson.jpg|thumb|upright|135px|[[Flora Robson]]]] [[File:Flora Benenson as a teenager.jpg|thumb|upright|135px|[[Flora Solomon]]]] * 5 July – [[Edward Llewellyn-Thomas]], scientist and science fiction writer (born 1917) * 7 July – Dame [[Flora Robson]], actress (born 1902) * 8 July – [[Reginald Stewart (conductor)|Reginald Stewart]], orchestral conductor (born 1900) * 9 July – [[Margaret Wetherby Williams]], crime writer (born 1901) * 11 July ** [[Hugh Morton (actor)|Hugh Morton]], actor (born 1903) ** [[Johnny Ralph]], cyclist (accident) (born 1931) * 18 July ** [[Lally Bowers]], actress (born 1914) ** [[Flora Solomon]], activist (born 1895, Russian Empire) * 19 July – [[John Vaizey, Baron Vaizey]], author and economist (born 1929) * 20 July – [[Gabriel Andrew Dirac]], mathematician (born 1925, Hungary) * 22 July – [[Peter Brush]], Northern Irish lieutenant-colonel and politician (born 1901) * 23 July – [[Anthony Sharp]], actor (born 1915) * 27 July – [[James Mason]], actor (born 1909) * 28 July – [[Alick Buchanan-Smith, Baron Balerno]], soldier and geneticist (born 1898) * 29 July ** [[Elaine M. Catley]], British-born Canadian poet (born 1889) ** Sir [[Campbell Hardy]], Royal Marines officer (born 1906) * 30 July ** [[Winifred Brown]], sportswoman, aviator and author (born 1899) ** [[Peter Jones (surgeon)|Peter Jones]], physician to King George VI (born 1917) ===August=== [[File:Richard Burton - The Robe.jpg|thumb|upright|135px|[[Richard Burton]]]] [[File:Mary Esslemont Wellcome L0004466.jpg|thumb|upright|135px|[[Mary Esslemont]]]] * 2 August – [[Harold Emmerson]], civil servant (born 1896) * 3 August – Sir [[Terence McMeekin]], Army general (born 1918) * 5 August ** [[Richard Burton]], Welsh-born actor (born 1925) ** [[Frederick Skinnard]], politician (born 1902) * 9 August – [[John R. Gray (minister)|John R. Gray]], Scottish Presbyterian minister (born 1913) * 12 August ** [[Christine Hargreaves]], actress (born 1939) ** [[Raymond Oppenheimer]], golfer and dog breeder (born 1905) * 14 August ** [[George Dickinson Hadley]], gastroenterologist (born 1908) ** [[J. B. Priestley]], writer and broadcaster (born 1894) ** [[Peter Wishart (composer)|Peter Wishart]], composer (born 1921) * 17 August ** [[Mostyn Thomas]], operatic tenor (born 1896) ** [[Rosa Ward]], pioneer of the Girl Guide movement (born 1893) * 19 August – [[Edmund Roche, 5th Baron Fermoy]], peer and businessman (suicide) (born 1939) * 20 August – [[Tom Percival]], power boat racer (born 1943; accident in Belgium while racing) * 21 August ** [[William Merrilees]], Scottish police officer (born 1898) ** [[Bernard Youens]], actor (born 1914) * 23 August ** [[Cecil Hoare]], protozoologist (born 1892) ** [[Helen O'Neil (archaeologist)|Helen O'Neil]], archaeologist (born 1893) * 24 August – [[James Kinsley]], literary scholar (born 1922) * 25 August – [[Mary Esslemont]], physician (born 1891) * 26 August – [[Leonard Robert Palmer]], philologist (born 1906) * 27 August ** [[Angela Sykes]], illustrator (born 1911) ** [[Amabel Williams-Ellis]], author and critic (born 1894) * 30 August – [[Robert Press]], civil servant (born 1915) ===September=== * 1 September – [[Alfred Newman (Royal Navy officer)|Alfred Newman]], Royal Navy commander (born 1888) * 2 September – [[Malcolm Craven]], motorcycle racer (born 1915) * 3 September – [[Francis Moncreiff (bishop)|Francis Moncreiff]], bishop (born 1906) * 4 September – [[Elsie Louisa Deacon]], railway draughtswoman (born 1897) * 6 September – [[Donny MacLeod]], television presenter (born 1932) * 7 September ** [[Archibald Gordon, 5th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair]], Scottish peer (born 1913) ** [[Jennifer Kendal]], actress (born 1934) * 8 September ** [[Anthony Gross]], painter and printmaker (born 1905) ** [[Frank Lowson]], English cricketer (born 1925) * 9 September ** [[Margaret Phillips (actress)|Margaret Phillips]], actress (born 1923) ** [[John Walker (officer of arms)|John Walker]], herald (born 1913) * 12 September – [[Geoffrey Lloyd, Baron Geoffrey-Lloyd]], politician (born 1902) * 13 September – [[Denis Shipwright]], RAF pilot (born 1898) * 15 September – Sir [[Richard Clayton (Royal Navy officer)|Richard Clayton]], Royal Navy admiral (born 1925) * 16 September ** [[Peter Blackmore (screenwriter)|Peter Blackmore]], film screenwriter (born 1909) ** [[Meredith Frampton]], painter (born 1894) * 18 September ** [[Ralph Assheton, 1st Baron Clitheroe]], peer and politician (born 1901) ** [[Irene Wellington]], calligrapher (born 1904) * 19 September – [[Frank Tomney]], politician (born 1908) * 20 September – [[Alfred White Franklin]], paediatrician (born 1905) * 22 September – [[George Oliver (politician)|George Oliver]], lawyer and politician (born 1888) * 23 September – [[Granville West, Baron Granville-West]], politician (born 1904) * 25 September ** [[Christopher Guest, Baron Guest]], judge (born 1901) ** [[Robert H. Thouless]], psychologist (born 1894) * 27 September – [[Toke Townley]], actor (born 1912) * 28 September – [[Gerard Wallop, 9th Earl of Portsmouth]], peer and politician (born 1898) * 29 September – [[J. H. C. Morris]], legal scholar (born 1910) ===October=== [[File:Helen Rushall.jpg|thumb|upright|135px|[[Helen Rushall]]]] [[File:Paul Dirac, 1933.jpg|thumb|upright|135px|[[Paul Dirac]]]] * 1 October – [[Jake Kilrain (British boxer)|Jake Kilrain]], boxer (born 1914) * 4 October – [[George H. Marshall]], teacher, author and activist (born 1916) * 5 October – [[Leonard Rossiter]], actor (born 1926) * 9 October ** [[C. E. Bowden]], Army officer and aeromodeller (born 1897) ** [[Guy Wolstenholme]], golfer (born 1931) * 10 October ** [[Alan Lake]], actor (suicide) (born 1940) ** [[Scott Sutherland]], sculptor (born 1910) * 11 October – [[Norah Smallwood]], publisher (born 1909) * 12 October ** [[Anthony Berry]], Member of Parliament (killed in the [[Brighton hotel bombing]]) (born 1925) ** [[Ernest Gates]], politician (born 1903) * 14 October – Sir [[Martin Ryle]], radio astronomer, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] (born 1918) * 15 October – [[Helen Rushall]], teacher (born 1914) * 16 October – [[Constance Warren (composer)|Constance Warren]], composer (born 1905) * 18 October ** [[Mickey Brantford]], actor (born 1911) ** [[Lloyd Goffe]], motorcycle racer (born 1913) * 20 October – [[Paul Dirac]], physicist and [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (born 1902) * 22 October – [[Isabel Brown]], communist activist (born 1894) * 25 October – [[Stanford Robinson]], orchestral conductor and composer (born 1904) * 26 October ** [[Michael Babington Smith]], soldier, banker and sportsman (born 1901) ** [[Seaborne Davies]], politician and teacher (born 1904) ** [[Noel Howlett]], actor (born 1902) * 27 October – [[George F. Le Feuvre]], Jersey-born American poet (born 1891) * 28 October – [[John Davy (journalist)|John Davy]], journalist (born 1927) * 31 October – [[Peter Du Cane (boat designer)|Peter Du Cane]], boat designer (born 1901) ===November=== [[File:The 18th Duke of Somerset.jpg|thumb|upright|135px|[[Percy Seymour, 18th Duke of Somerset]]]] [[File:Eric Gray Forbes. Photograph. Wellcome V0026386.jpg|thumb|upright|135px|[[Eric G. Forbes]]]] * 3 November – [[Harry McEvoy]], industrialist (born 1902) * 5 November ** [[Jessie Furze]], pianist and composer (born 1903) ** [[Ivor Montagu]], aristocrat, documentary film maker, table tennis player and Communist activist (born 1904) * 7 November – [[Anita Gregory]], psychologist (born 1925, Germany) * 9 November – Sir [[William MacDonald (RAF officer)|William MacDonald]], RAF air marshal (born 1908) * 10 November ** [[Owain Richards]], zoologist (born 1901) ** [[Louis Rosenhead]], mathematician (born 1906) * 13 November – [[Fred Hague]], trade unionist (born 1911) * 15 November – [[Percy Seymour, 18th Duke of Somerset]], peer (born 1910) * 16 November ** Sir [[George Deacon]], oceanographer (born 1906) ** [[Philip Maynard Williams]], political analyst (born 1920) * 17 November – [[Harold Newgass]], RAF pilot and [[George Cross]] recipient (born 1896) * 18 November ** [[Thomas Jones, Baron Maelor]], politician (born 1898) ** [[Kenneth Martin (English painter)|Kenneth Martin]], painter (born 1905) * 19 November ** [[John McQuade]], Northern Irish politician (born 1911) ** [[Graham Russell Mitchell]], World War II spy (born 1905) * 20 November – [[Peter Welch (actor)|Peter Welch]], actor (born 1922) * 21 November – [[Eric G. Forbes]], physicist (born 1933) * 22 November – [[Denis Rose]], jazz musician (born 1922) * 23 November ** [[Margaret Burton (actress)|Margaret Burton]], actress (born 1924) ** [[William Spens, 2nd Baron Spens]], peer (born 1914) * 27 November – [[George Howard, Baron Howard of Henderskelfe]], politician, soldier and BBC chairman (born 1920) * 29 November – [[Dorothea Macnee]], socialite (born 1896) * 30 November – [[Edward Crankshaw]], writer and translator (born 1909) ===December=== [[File:Ethel Edith Mannin, Bassano.jpg|thumb|upright|135px|[[Ethel Mannin]]]] * 2 December – [[Edward James]], poet (born 1907) * 4 December ** [[Wyndham Davies]], politician (born 1926) ** [[Malcolm Shaw (comics)|Malcolm Shaw]], comics writer (born 1946) * 5 December ** [[William Brown (British Army officer)|William Brown]], Scottish army officer (born 1922) ** [[Ethel Mannin]], novelist, travel writer and activist (born 1900) * 8 December – [[Razzle (musician)|Razzle]], rock drummer (car accident in the United States) (born 1960) * 9 December – [[Ivor Moreton]], singer and pianist (born 1908) * 10 December – [[Brian Taylor (jockey)|Brian Taylor]], jockey (fall while racing) (born 1939) * 11 December – [[Will Paynter]], coal miner and union leader (born 1903) * 14 December – Sir [[Walter Stansfield]], police officer (born 1917) * 15 December – [[Lennard Pearce]], actor (born 1915) * 19 December ** [[Nigel Cornwall]], clergyman (born 1903) ** [[Rowland Winn, 4th Baron St Oswald]], peer and politician (born 1916) ** [[Hugh Seton-Watson]], historian (born 1916) * 21 December – [[Maurice Key]], bishop (born 1905) * 22 December – [[Sidney Vivian]], actor (born 1901) * 24 December ** [[Ian Hendry]], actor (born 1931) ** [[Harry Waxman]], cinematographer (born 1912) * 25 December – [[Robert Stott (British Army officer)|Robert Stott]], Army brigadier-general (born 1898) * 26 December ** [[Geoffrey Barraclough]], historian (born 1908) ** [[Tebbs Lloyd Johnson]], speed-walker (born 1900) * 27 December – [[William Black, Baron Black]], coachbuilder (born 1893) * 28 December ** [[Patrick Joseph Nolan]], physicist (born 1894) ** [[Mary Stewart, Baroness Stewart of Alvechurch]], politician and educator (born 1903) ===Date unknown=== * ''unknown'' – Jean Bain of [[Crathie, Aberdeenshire]], last speaker of [[River Dee, Aberdeenshire|Dee]]side [[Scottish Gaelic|Gaelic]] (born Jean McDonald, 1890)<ref>{{cite journal|first1=Adam|last1=Watson|author-link=Adam Watson (scientist)|first2=R. D.|last2=Clement|title=Aberdeenshire Gaelic|journal=Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness|volume=52|year=1983|pages=373–404}}</ref> ==See also== * [[1984 in British music]] * [[1984 in British television]] * [[List of British films of 1984]] ==References== {{Reflist|2}} {{UK year nav}} {{Year in Europe|1984}} [[Category:1984 in the United Kingdom| ]] [[Category:Years of the 20th century in the United Kingdom]] [[Category:1984 by country|United Kingdom]]'