company executive (born 1906 in Ukraine) 20 December – Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1914) 21 December Roger Avon, actor (b. 1914) Avril Coleridge-Taylor, pianist, conductor, composer and daughter of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (born 1903) Richard Turnbull, British colonial governor (b. 1909) 22 December – Donald Soper, Methodist minister and pacifist (born 1903) 25 December – John Pulman, snooker player (born 1923); accidentally killed 30 December – George Webb, actor (born 1911) See also List of British films of 1998 References Years of the 20th century in the United Kingdom United Kingdom