page_title: 2008 in the United Kingdom
section_title: August
hierarchical_section_title: 2008 in the United Kingdom / Deaths / August
caption_attribution_description: English: Geoffrey Perkins hosting the Channel 4 panel game Don't Quote Me, made by Open Media in 1990
context_page_description: Events from the year 2008 in the United Kingdom.
context_section_description: 1 August – Pauline Baynes, artist (born 1922)
  3 August – Roger Dean, guitarist (born 1943)
  4 August – Craig Jones, motorcycle racer (accident) (born 1985)
  6 August – Simon Gray, playwright (born 1936)
  9 August
  Peter Coe, athletics coach, father of Sebastian Coe (born 1919)
  Archie Elliott, Lord Elliott, judge (born 1922)
  10 August – Terence Rigby, actor (born 1937)
  11 August – Sir Bill Cotton, producer (born 1928)
  12 August – Michael Baxandall, art historian (born 1933)
  13 August – John MacDougall, politician (born 1947)
  14 August
  Sandy Bruce-Lockhart, Baron Bruce-Lockhart, politician (born 1942)
  Lita Roza, singer (born 1926)
  18 August – Bob Humphrys, broadcaster, brother of John Humphrys (born 1952)
  19 August – Leo Abse, lawyer and politician (born 1917)
  20 August – Eric Longworth, actor (born 1918)
  25 August – John Thoday, geneticist (born 1916)
  29 August – Geoffrey Perkins, comedy producer, writer and performer (born 1953)
  31 August – Ken Campbell, actor and raconteur (born 1941)
caption: Geoffrey Perkins
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