– Eddie Clarke, heavy metal guitarist (Motörhead) (died 2018) 22 October – Harry Gration, broadcaster and journalist (died 2022) 25 October – Steve Barry, race walker 14 November – Sarah Radclyffe, production manager and producer 17 November – Colin Fletcher, suffragan bishop 26 November – Davey Graham, guitarist (died 2008) 6 December – Helen Liddell, politician 10 December – Nicky Henderson, horse trainer 14 December – Vicki Michelle, actress 20 December – Geoffrey Grimmett, mathematician and academic 21 December – David Thacker, director and screenwriter 28 December – Clifford Cocks, cryptographer 31 December – Phil Blakeway, English rugby player Deaths 21 January – George Orwell, author (born 1903) 9 March – Timothy Evans, victim of wrongful execution (born 1924) 19 March – Sir Norman Haworth, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1883) 24 March – Harold Laski, political theorist and economist (born 1893) 30 March – Joe Yule, Scottish-born comedian (born 1894) 19 April – Edward Unwin, Victoria Cross recipient (born 1864) 2 August – Nina Boucicault, actress (born 1867) 17 August – Sir Francis Lindley, diplomat (born 1872) 6 September – Olaf Stapledon, author and philosopher (born 1886) 21 September – Arthur Milne, physicist (born 1896) 2 November – George Bernard Shaw, playwright (born 1856) 12 November – Julia Marlowe, English-American actress (born 1865) 23 November – Percival Mackey, pianist, composer and bandleader (born 1894) 28 November – James Corbitt, murderer (born 1913) See also 1950 in British music 1950 in British television List of British films of 1950 References Years of the 20th century in the United Kingdom