Alan Turing, mathematician, logician and cryptographer (born 1912) 9 June – Arthur Greenwood, politician (born 1880) 11 July – Henry Valentine Knaggs, physician and author (born 1859) 24 September – Edward Pilgrim, victim of bureaucracy (born 1904) 20 December – James Hilton, novelist (born 1900) See also 1954 in British music 1954 in British television List of British films of 1954 References Years of the 20th century in the United Kingdom