page_title: 2019 in the United Kingdom
section_title: August
hierarchical_section_title: 2019 in the United Kingdom / Deaths / August
caption_attribution_description: English: Gordon Brand Jnr at Van Lanschot Senior Open
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 August
  Gordon Brand Jnr, 60, Scottish golfer.
  William Brown, 74, academic, Master of Darwin College (2000–2012).
  Ian Gibbons, 67, English keyboardist (The Kinks), bladder cancer.
  Maurice Pope, 93, classical linguist.
  3 August
  Basil Heatley, 85, athlete, marathon world-record holder (1964) and Olympic silver medallist (1964).
  Joe Longthorne, 64, English singer and entertainer, throat cancer.
  4 August – Alfred Smith, 111, Scottish supercentenarian, oldest man in Scotland.
  5 August – John Lowey, 61, English footballer (Sheffield Wednesday, Blackburn Rovers, Chester City).
  6 August – Steve Parr, 92, English footballer (Liverpool).
  9 August
  Huw O. Pritchard, 91, Welsh-born Canadian chemist.
  Sir Michael Uren, 95, businessman and philanthropist.
  10 August
  Freda Dowie, 91, English actress (Distant Voices, Still Lives, The Old Curiosity Shop, The Omen).
  Jo Lancaster, 100, RAF pilot.
  11 August
  Freddy Bannister, 84, English rock concert promoter, cancer.
  Doug Clarke, 85, English footballer (Hull City, Torquay United, Bury).
  John Dillon, 76, Scottish footballer (Albion Rovers, Sunderland).
  Kerry Downes, 88, English architectural historian.
  12 August
  Terence Knapp, 87, English actor (Urge to Kill, The Valiant, Othello), director, educator and author.
  Robyn Léwis, 89, Welsh author, politician and archdruid, Vice President of Plaid Cymru (1970–1976).
  13 August – Carole Satyamurti, 80, poet, sociologist and translator.
  16 August
  Anna Quayle, 86, English actress (Grange Hill)
  Bobby Smith, 78, English footballer (Barnsley, Chelmsford City).
  Richard Williams, 86, Canadian-British animator and director (The Thief and the Cobbler, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, A Christmas Carol), three-time Oscar winner, cancer.
  18 August – Gary Cooper, 80, English rugby league footballer, and coach.
  20 August – Richard Booth, 80, Welsh bookseller.
  21 August
  Richard Gregson, 89, agent, film producer and screenwriter, Parkinson's disease.
  John W. Neill, 85, Olympic field hockey player (1960, 1964, 1968).
  23 August – Sheila Steafel, 84, South African-born actress (Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D., Quatermass and the Pit, The Ghosts of Motley Hall), leukemia.
  24 August
  Michael Eagar, 85, English cricketer (Gloucestershire).
  Ia McIlwaine, 84, librarian.
  25 August
  Timothy Bell, Baron Bell, 77, advertising and public relations executive (Bell Pottinger).
  Alf Burnell, 95, English rugby league footballer, heart attack.
  Jonathan Goldstein, 50, English composer, plane crash.
  Sam McGredy, 87, Northern Irish-born New Zealand rose hybridiser (Rosa 'Violet Carson', Rosa 'New Zealand').
  26 August
  Ray Henwood, 82, Welsh-born New Zealand actor (Gliding On).
  Geoffrey Wraith, 72, English rugby league footballer, and coach.
  28 August – Steve Hiett, 79, English photographer.
  29 August
  Terrance Dicks, 84, English screenwriter (Doctor Who, Crossroads, Space: 1999).
  Guy Innes-Ker, 10th Duke of Roxburghe, 64, aristocrat.
  30 August
  James Cellan Jones, 88, Welsh director (The Roads to Freedom, The Forsyte Saga, Fortunes of War), chairman of BAFTA (1983–1985), stroke.
  Stephen Cretney, 83, legal scholar.
caption: Gordon Brand Jnr
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