– Kalvin Phillips, footballer 4 December – Dina Asher-Smith, sprinter 7 December – Jaanai Gordon, footballer 8 December – Jordon Ibe, footballer 12 December – Mark O'Hara, footballer 16 December – Ryan Gauld, footballer 19 December – Elliot Evans, singer 27 December – Laurence Belcher, actor Full date unknown Tex Jacks, actor Joshua Pascoe, actor Deaths 1 January – Fred West, serial killer (born 1941) (suicide by hanging while in custody) 2 January – Henry Graham Sharp, figure skater (born 1917) 7 January Harry Golombek, chess grandmaster (born 1911) Larry Grayson, comedian and gameshow host (born 1923) 9 January – Peter Cook, comedy actor, satirist, writer and comedian (born 1937) 11 January John Gere, art historian (born 1921) Peter Pratt, opera singer (born 1923) 13 January – Mervyn Stockwood, clergyman and former Bishop of Southwark (born 1913) 14 January – Sir Alexander Gibson, conductor (born 1926) 30 January – Gerald Durrell, naturalist, zookeeper, author and television presenter (born 1925 in British India) 2 February David Kindersley, typeface designer (born 1915) Fred Perry, tennis player and three times Wimbledon champion (born 1909) Donald Pleasence, actor (born 1919) 4 February – Godfrey Brown, Olympic athlete (born 1915) 8 February – Rachel Thomas, Welsh actress (born 1909) 12 February – Robert Bolt, writer (born 1924) 19 February – Nicholas Fairbairn, Scottish politician (born 1933) 23 February James Herriot, veterinary surgeon and writer (born 1916) Norman Hunter, writer (born 1899) 5 March – Vivian Stanshall, singer-songwriter, musician and poet (born 1943); accidentally killed 7 March – Ivan Craig, Scottish actor (born 1912) 17 March – Ronnie Kray, jailed crime leader (born 1933) 22 March – Peter Woods, journalist (born 1930) 23 March Alan Barton, singer (Black Lace) (born 1953); accidentally killed Davie Cooper, footballer (born 1956) 25 March – Stuart Milner-Barry, chess player and World War II codebreaker (born 1906) 4 April – Kenny Everett, comic broadcast presenter (born 1944) (AIDS-related) 6 April – Trevor Park, lecturer and politician (born 1927) 7 April – Nicholas Ingram, first British citizen to be executed by the electric chair in the United States (born c. 1964) 10 April – Glyn Jones, Welsh writer (born 1905) 12 April – Chris Pyne, jazz trombonist (born 1939) 14 April – Michael Fordham, psychologist (born 1909) 16 April – Arthur English, actor and comedian (born 1919) 20 April – Bob Wyatt, former cricketer (born 1901) 30 April – Michael Graham Cox,