Jones, English-born pop singer and actor (died 2012) Deaths 2 January – Sir Bertram Ramsay, admiral; killed on active service (born 1883) 6 January – Herbert Lumsden, general; killed in action (born 1897) 9 January – Dennis O'Neill, Welsh child manslaughter victim (born 1932) 30 January – William Goodenough, admiral (born 1867) 21 January – Archibald Murray, Army general (born 1860) 31 January – Les Adams, rugby league player (born 1909) 21 February – Eric Liddell, athlete and missionary; died in Weixian Internment Camp (born 1902) 5 March – Albert Richards, war artist; killed on active service (born 1919) 7 March – Daniel Everett, RAF pilot; killed in action (born 1920) 8 March – Frederick Bligh Bond, architect, archaeologist and psychical researcher (born 1864) 20 March – Lord Alfred Douglas, poet and former lover of Oscar Wilde (born 1870) 23 March – Sir Napier Shaw, meteorologist (born 1854) 26 March – David Lloyd George, former Prime Minister (born 1863) 29 March – Jack Agazarian, spy; executed (born 1916) 7 April – Elizabeth Bibesco, writer and socialite (born 1897) 11 April – Cecil Griffiths, athlete, winner of gold medal in 4 × 400 m relay at the 1920 Summer Olympics (born 1901) 18 April – Sir John Ambrose Fleming, electrical engineer and physicist (born 1849) 3 May – Herbert Farjeon, man of the theatre (born 1887) 15 May Kenneth J. Alford (Frederick J. Ricketts), composer of military marches (born 1881) Charles Williams, author (born 1886) 27 July – Alfred Dobbs, politician (born 1882) 6 September – Maximilian von Herff, Waffen-SS officer and Knight's Cross recipient (born 1893 in Germany) 18 September – C. H. Middleton, gardening broadcaster (born 1886) 22 September – Thomas Burke, fiction writer (born 1886) 31 October Henry Ainley, actor (born 1879) Alfred Edward Taylor, philosopher (born 1869) 20 November – Francis William Aston, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1877) 4 December – Arthur Morrison, writer (born 1863) 5 December – Cosmo Gordon Lang, former archbishop of Canterbury (born 1864) 14 December – Princess Maud, Countess of Southesk, granddaughter of Edward VII (born 1893) 26 December Roger Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes, admiral (born 1872) Charlie Trigg, jockey (born 1881) See also List of British films of 1945 Military history of the United Kingdom during World War II References Years of the 20th century in the United Kingdom