page_title: 2018 in the United Kingdom
section_title: March
hierarchical_section_title: 2018 in the United Kingdom / Deaths / March
caption_attribution_description: English: Jim Bowen 2008
context_page_description: Events from the year 2018 in the United Kingdom.
context_section_description: 1 March
  Beth Morris, 74, Welsh actress (Son of Dracula).
  2 March
  Gerry Lowe, 90, English rugby player (Warrington Wolves).
  3 March
  Roger Bannister, 88, English athlete and neurologist, first man to run a sub four-minute mile.
  Patrick Doyle, 32, Scottish drummer (Veronica Falls).
  Arthur Stewart, 76, Northern Irish footballer (Glentoran, Derby County, Detroit Cougars). (death announced on this date)
  Ian Stewart, Baron Stewartby, 82, British politician and numismatist.
  4 March
  Sir William McAlpine, 6th Baronet, 82, British engineering construction executive, manager of Sir Robert McAlpine.
  Alex Rennie, 69, Scottish footballer (St Johnstone, Dundee United) and manager (Stenhousemuir).
  5 March
  Trevor Baylis, 80, British inventor (windup radio).
  John Kurila, 74, Scottish footballer (Northampton Town, Celtic).
  Michael Watts, 79, British journalist.
  6 March
  Zena Skinner, 91, British television chef.
  John Sulston, 75, British biologist and academic.
  7 March
  John Molyneux, 87, English footballer.
  8 March
  Henry Hope-Frost, 47, British journalist, traffic collision.
  Antoni Imiela, 63, German-born British convicted rapist.
  10 March
  Wally Gould, 79, English footballer (York City, Brighton, Hellenic).
  11 March
  Sir Ken Dodd, 90, English comedian (Diddy Men), singer-songwriter ("Tears") and actor (Hamlet), chest infection.
  13 March
  Brenda Dean, 74, British trade unionist and peer.
  Claudia Fontaine, 57, English backing vocalist. (death announced on this date)
  Ken Mulhearn, 72, English footballer (Shrewsbury Town, Stockport County, Manchester City).
  14 March
  Jim Bowen, 80, English stand-up comedian (The Comedians) and TV personality (Bullseye).
  Stephen Hawking, 76, English theoretical physicist, professor (University of Cambridge) and writer (A Brief History of Time), ALS.
  15 March
  Ellis Daw, 89, British zoo executive, founder of Dartmoor Zoological Park.
  16 March
  Raymond Wilson, 89, British physicist.
  17 March
  Nicholas Edwards, Baron Crickhowell, 84, British politician, Secretary of State for Wales (1979–1987).
  18 March
  Ivor Richard, Baron Richard, 85, British politician and diplomat, Lord Privy Seal (1997–98), ambassador to UN, MP for Barons Court (1964–1974).
  19 March
  George Meek, 84, Scottish footballer (Leeds United, Walsall). (death announced on this date)
  Keith O'Brien, 80, Scottish Roman Catholic Cardinal, Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh (1985–2013), complications from a fall.
  20 March
  Scott Ambler, 57, British dancer and choreographer. (death announced on this date)
  Katie Boyle, 91, Italian-born British actress, television personality, and game-show panellist.
  21 March
  John Bacon, 83, British news reader (ITV Anglia, BBC).
  22 March
  Fergus Anckorn, 99, British magician, longest-serving member of The Magic Circle. (death announced on this date)
  23 March
  Philip Kerr, 62, British author (March Violets, Children of the Lamp, A Philosophical Investigation).
  24 March
  Bill Lucas, 101, British RAF officer and Olympic long-distance runner (1948).
  25 March
  David Cobham, 87, British film director (Tarka the Otter), stroke.
  28 March
  Bobby Ferguson, 80, English football player (Derby County) and manager (Ipswich).
  Mike Tucker, 73, British equestrian rider and commentator.
  29 March
  Ron Mailer, 85, Scottish footballer (Dunfermline Athletic).
  Pollyanna Pickering, 75, wildlife artist and environmentalist
  30 March
  Bill Maynard, 89, English actor (Heartbeart, Confessions of a Window Cleaner, Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall), complications of a fall.
  Josie Farrington, Baroness Farrington of Ribbleton, 77, British politician, life peer (since 1994).
  31 March
  Chris Edwards, 41, British boxer, heart attack.
caption: Jim Bowen in 2008
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