page_title: 2017 in the United Kingdom
section_title: February
hierarchical_section_title: 2017 in the United Kingdom / Deaths / February
caption_attribution_description: English: This is a picture of Gerald Kaufman taken at his Christmas Party December 2003 by me, Martin Rathfelder. I own the copyright.
context_page_description: Events from the year 2017 in the United Kingdom.
context_section_description: 1 February
  Desmond Carrington, 90, actor (Emergency – Ward 10) and broadcaster.
  Ken Morrison, 85, businessman and president of the Morrisons supermarket chain.
  3 February
  Gordon Aikman, 31, ALS campaigner.
  Anthony French, 96, physicist, contributor to the Manhattan Project.
  Colin Hutton, 90, rugby league player, manager and executive (Hull).
  Michael Whinney, 86, Anglican prelate, Bishop of Aston (1982–1985) and Bishop of Southwell (1985–1988).
  4 February
  Gervase de Peyer, 90, clarinetist.
  Ivor Noël Hume, 89, archaeologist (Wolstenholme Towne).
  Sir Kenneth Newman, 90, police officer, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police (1982–1987).
  5 February – Glen Dudbridge, 78–79, sinologist.
  6 February – Alec McCowen, 91, actor (A Night to Remember, Frenzy, Gangs of New York).
  7 February
  Michael Henshall, 88, Anglican prelate, Bishop of Warrington (1976–1996).
  John Salt, 75, Anglican bishop, Diocese of St Helena (1999–2011).
  8 February
  Timothy Behrens, 79, painter.
  Sir Elihu Lauterpacht, 88, lawyer.
  Sir Peter Mansfield, 83, physicist, laureate of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2003).
  Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, 45, socialite and television presenter.
  Tom Raworth, 78, poet.
  Alan Simpson, 87, comedy scriptwriter (Hancock's Half Hour, Comedy Playhouse, Steptoe and Son).
  Sir John Wells, 91, politician, MP for Maidstone (1959–1987).
  9 February – Simon Porter, 66, cricketer and cricket administrator (Oxfordshire).
  11 February – Joseph Bonnar, 68, rugby league footballer of the 1960s and 1970s.
  12 February
  Sara Coward, 69, actress (The Archers).
  Damian, 52, pop singer.
  Bobby Murdoch, 81, footballer (Liverpool).
  15 February – Roy Proverbs, 84, footballer (Gillingham).
  16 February
  Richard Pankhurst, 89, academic and son of Sylvia Pankhurst.
  Peter Richardson, 85, cricketer (Worcestershire, Kent, England).
  17 February
  Alan Aldridge, 73, graphic designer (The Who, Elton John).
  Peter Skellern, 69, singer-songwriter.
  18 February – Roger Hynd, 75, footballer (Rangers, Birmingham City) and football manager (Motherwell).
  19 February – Don Dixon, Baron Dixon, 87, politician, MP for Jarrow (1979–1997).
  20 February
  Steve Hewlett, 58, journalist (The Guardian) and radio presenter (The Media Show).
  Leo Murphy, 78, Gaelic footballer.
  21 February
  Sir Cosmo Haskard, 100, colonial administrator, Governor of the Falkland Islands (1964–1970).
  Sir Michael Palmer, 88, Army officer, Defence Services Secretary (1982–1985).
  Garel Rhys, 76, economist and motor industry academic.
  23 February
  Derek Ibbotson, 84, runner, Olympic bronze medalist (1956).
  David Waddington, Baron Waddington, 87, politician, MP (1968–1974, 1979–1990), Home Secretary (1989–1990), Leader of the House of Lords (1990–1992) and Governor of Bermuda (1992–1997).
  25 February
  Neil Fingleton, 36, actor (Game of Thrones, 47 Ronin, Doctor Who) and basketball player.
  Bobby Lumley, 84, footballer (Hartlepool United, Charlton Athletic).
  Elli Norkett, 20, rugby player (Wales).
  Lloyd Williams, 83, rugby union player (Cardiff, Wales).
  26 February
  Sir Gerald Kaufman, 86, politician, MP for Manchester Ardwick (1970–1983) and Manchester Gorton (since 1983), Father of the House (since 2015).
  Irvine Sellar, 82, property developer and architect (The Shard).
  27 February
  Syd Lowdon, 81, rugby league footballer (Whitehaven, Workington Town, Cumberland).
  Alex Young, 80, footballer (Hearts, Everton, Scotland).
  28 February
  Douglas Milmine, 95, Anglican prelate, Bishop of Paraguay (1973–1985).
  Nicholas Mosley, 93, novelist and biographer.
  James Walker, 76, actor (Nineteen Eighty-Four, Empire of the Sun).
caption: Sir Gerald Kaufman
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