page_title: 2019 in the United Kingdom
section_title: April
hierarchical_section_title: 2019 in the United Kingdom / Deaths / April
caption_attribution_description: English: Tommy Smith in 1966
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: 1 April – Michael William Feast, 92, British-born South African astronomer.
  2 April
  Martin Fido, 79, crime writer, fall.
  Bill Heine, 74, American-born British radio broadcaster (BBC Radio Oxford), leukaemia.
  Harry Judge, 90, English educational theorist.
  3 April – Billy Mainwaring, 78, Welsh rugby union player (Aberavon, Bridgend, national team).
  5 April – John Quarmby, 89, (Fawlty Towers', K-9 and Company, A Christmas Carol
  6 April – David J. Thouless, 84, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (2016).
  7 April
  Mya-Lecia Naylor, 16, English actress (Millie Inbetween), hanged by misadventure.
  Willie McPheat, 76, Scottish footballer (Sunderland, Hartlepool United, Airdrieonians).
  Sandy Ratcliff, 70, English actress (EastEnders).
  8 April
  Clive Cohen, 73, English Anglican priest.
  Rex Garrod, 75, inventor, roboteer (Brum, Robot Wars) and television presenter (The Secret Life of Machines), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
  Sir Alexander Reid, 3rd Baronet, 86, English aristocrat and public servant.
  11 April
  Ian Cognito, 60, English stand-up comedian, heart attack.
  Una-Mary Parker, 89, English journalist and novelist.
  12 April
  Ivor Broadis, 96, English footballer (Carlisle United, Newcastle United).
  John McEnery, 75, English actor (Romeo and Juliet, Nicholas and Alexandra, The Land That Time Forgot) and writer.
  Norrie Muir, 70, Scottish climber.
  Paul Rawlinson, 56, lawyer, head of Baker McKenzie (since 2016).
  Tommy Smith, 74, English professional footballer, dementia.
  13 April
  Tony Buzan, 76, English author and educational consultant.
  Winifred Jordan, 99, English sprinter.
  Paul Raymond, 73, English musician (Plastic Penny, UFO, Savoy Brown), heart attack.
  14 April – Colin Collindridge, 98, English footballer (Sheffield United, Nottingham Forest).
  15 April
  Martin King, 86, British actor (Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons Joe 90)
  Sir Roger Moate, 80, politician, MP (1970–1997), cancer.
  Malky McCormick, 76, Scottish cartoonist, vascular dementia.
  Les Reed, 83, English songwriter ("It's Not Unusual", "Delilah, "The Last Waltz") and musician.
  17 April – Sir Clive Rose, 97, diplomat.
  18 April
  John Bowen, 94, writer.
  Con de Lange, 38, South African-born Scottish cricketer (Northamptonshire), brain tumour.
  Andrew Mallard, 56, British-born Australian wrongfully convicted prisoner, traffic collision.
  Lyra McKee, 29, Northern Irish journalist.
  19 April
  Philip Liner, 93, British-born New Zealand radio broadcaster (National Radio).
  Michael Yorke, 80, Anglican priest, Dean of Lichfield (1999–2005).
  20 April
  Joe Armstrong, 68, computer scientist, designer of Erlang.
  Charlie Kelsall, 98, Welsh footballer (Wrexham).
  21 April
  Polly Higgins, 50, Scottish environmentalist, cancer.
  Doreen Spooner, 91, photographer.
  22 April
  Heather Harper, 88, Northern Irish soprano, Grammy winner (1980, 1985).
  Billy McNeill, 79, Scottish footballer (Celtic) and manager (Aberdeen), dementia.
  23 April
  George Haigh, 103, English footballer.
  Edward Kelsey, 88, English actor (The Archers, Danger Mouse (1981 TV series)).
  Terry Rawlings, 85–86, film editor (Alien, Blade Runner, Chariots of Fire).
  Peter Skipper, 61, English footballer (Hull City), complications from a stroke.
  David Winters, 80, English-American actor and choreographer (West Side Story).
  25 April – Sir Nigel Seely, 95, English aristocrat.
  26 April – Sir David McNee, 94, Scottish police officer, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police (1977–1982).
  27 April – Joseph Ward, 76, English tenor.
  29 April
  Stevie Chalmers, 83, Scottish footballer (Celtic).
  Betty Lockwood, Baroness Lockwood, 95, political activist and life peer, Member of the House of Lords (1978–2007).
  John Llewellyn Moxey, 94, Argentinian-born British director (The City of the Dead, Foxhole in Cairo, Circus of Fear).
  30 April
  Boon Gould, 64, English musician (Level 42).
  Peter Mayhew, 74, English-American actor (Star Wars), heart attack.
caption: Tommy Smith in 1966
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