page_title: 2019 in the United Kingdom
section_title: May
hierarchical_section_title: 2019 in the United Kingdom / Deaths / May
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Judith Kerr on September 15, 2016 at Haus der Berliner Festspiele in Berlin at the section International Children´s and Young Adult Literature of the 16th International Literature Festival Berlin
context_page_description: Events from the year 2019 in the United Kingdom. Lack of agreement on how to proceed with withdrawing from the EU led to substantial political turmoil during this year culminating in the 2019 General election in which the pro-Brexit Conservative party achieved a large majority.
context_section_description: 2 May
  Lord Toby Jug, 53, politician.
  David Gordon Wilson, 91, British-born American professor of engineering.
  3 May
  Sir Peter Herbert, 90, admiral.
  Irene Sutcliffe, 94, English actress (Coronation Street)
  4 May – Tommy Sopwith, 86, racing driver and businessman.
  6 May
  Jack Cohen, 85, scientist and author.
  Ted Witherden, 97, English cricketer.
  7 May – Seamus Close, 71, Northern Irish politician, liver cancer.
  9 May
  Walter Harris, 93, author and broadcaster.
  Freddie Starr, 76, English comedian, heart disease.
  Micky Steele-Bodger, 93, English rugby union player (Harlequin, Barbarian).
  Dan van der Vat, Dutch-born British journalist and naval historian.
  Brian Walden, 86, journalist and broadcaster (Weekend World) and politician, MP (1964–1977), emphysema.
  10 May
  Jon Gittens, 55, English footballer (Swindon Town, Portsmouth, Exeter City).
  Richard L. Hills, 82, English historian and clergyman.
  Janet Kitz, 89, Scottish-born Canadian historian and author (Shattered City: The Halifax Explosion and the Road to Recovery).
  John MacInnes, 89, Scottish Gaelic scholar.
  Gordon Neate, 78, English footballer (Reading).
  11 May
  Melissa Ede, 58, English transgender campaigner and social media personality, heart attack.
  Nan Winton, 93, broadcaster, first woman to read BBC News on television, fall.
  12 May
  Dale Greig, 81, Scottish long-distance runner.
  Doug McAvoy, 80, trade union leader, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers (1989–2004).
  Alan Skirton, 80, English footballer (Bath City, Arsenal), Alzheimer's disease.
  13 May – George Smith, 75, Scottish football referee.
  14 May – Tommy Donbavand, 53, English children's author (Scream Street) and actor, throat and lung cancer.
  15 May
  Kenneth Newing, 95, Anglican prelate, Bishop of Plymouth (1982–1988).
  John Ronane, 85, actor (Strangers).
  16 May – Geoff Toseland, 88, English footballer (Sunderland).
  18 May – Sir Timothy Kitson, 88, politician, MP for Richmond, North Yorkshire (1959–1983).
  20 May
  Andrew Hall, 65, English actor (Butterflies, Casualty, Coronation Street).
  John Moore, Baron Moore of Lower Marsh, 81, politician, MP (1974–1992).
  21 May – Royce Mills, 77, English actor (History of the World, Part I, Up the Chastity Belt, Doctor Who).
  22 May
  Maurice Bamford, 83, English rugby league player and coach (Wigan Warriors, Leeds Rhinos, Great Britain).
  Judith Kerr, 95, German-born writer and illustrator (The Tiger Who Came to Tea, Mog).
  23 May – Joseph Devine, 81, Scottish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Motherwell (1983–2013).
  24 May – Edmund Morris, 78, Kenyan-born British-American writer (The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan), Pulitzer Prize winner (1980), stroke.
  25 May
  Margaret-Ann Armour, 79, Scottish-born Canadian chemist.
  Claus von Bülow, 92, Danish-British socialite.
  26 May
  Harry Hood, 74, Scottish footballer (Celtic) and manager (Queen of the South), cancer.
  Stephen Thorne, 84, English actor (Z-Cars, Crossroads, Doctor Who).
  27 May
  Sir David Sieff, 80 businessman (Marks & Spencer).
  Alan Smith, 97, English footballer (Arsenal, Brentford).
  28 May
  Ralph Murphy, 75, British-born Canadian country musician, cancer.
  Walter Wolfgang, 95, German-born socialist and peace activist.
  29 May
  Adam Patel, Baron Patel of Blackburn, 78, clothier and Member of the House of Lords (since 2000).
  Michael Spicer, Baron Spicer, 76, politician, MP (1974–2010), chairman of the 1922 Committee (2001–2010) and Member of the House of Lords (since 2010), Parkinson's disease and leukaemia.
  30 May
  Anthony Price, 90, author.
  Andrew Sinclair, 84, polymathic novelist, speechwriter and film director
  John Tidmarsh, 90, English broadcaster and journalist (Outlook).
caption: Judith Kerr in 2016
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