page_title: 2001 in the United Kingdom
section_title: Deaths
hierarchical_section_title: 2001 in the United Kingdom / Deaths
caption_attribution_description: Portrait of Douglas Adams.
context_page_description: Events from the year 2001 in the United Kingdom.
context_section_description: 2 January – George Carman, lawyer (born 1929)
  11 January – Michael Williams, actor (born 1935)
  30 January – Johnnie Johnson, pilot (born 1915)
  23 February – Marcus Sieff, Baron Sieff of Brimpton, businessman (born 1913)
  27 February – Stan Cullis, footballer and manager (born 1915)
  1 March – Colin Webster, footballer (born 1932)
  10 March – Michael Woodruff, surgeon and scientist (born 1911)
  31 March – David Rocastle, footballer (born 1967)
  11 April – Harry Secombe, entertainer (born 1921)
  26 April – Bryon Butler, sports journalist (born 1934)
  11 May – Douglas Adams, writer, heart attack (born 1952)
  12 May – Simon Raven, novelist (born 1927)
  17 June – Thomas Winning, Archbishop of Glasgow (born 1925)
  28 June – Joan Sims, actress (born 1930)
  30 June – Joe Fagan, footballer and manager (born 1921)
  3 August – Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford, peer, politician and social reformer (born 1905)
  5 August – Aaron Flahavan, footballer (born 1975)
  6 August – Dorothy Tutin, actress (born 1930)
  19 August – Les Sealey, footballer and coach (born 1957)
  20 August – Fred Hoyle, astronomer (born 1915)
  12 October – Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, politician (born 1907)
  15 October – Jamie Cann, politician (born 1946)
  21 October – J. H. Plumb, historian (born 1911)
  26 October – Audrey Withers, magazine editor (born 1905)
  5 November – Roy Boulting, film director and producer (born 1913)
  14 November – Charlotte Coleman, actress (born 1968)
  23 November – Mary Whitehouse, campaigner against social liberalism (born 1910)
  29 November – George Harrison, rock musician (The Beatles) and film producer, lung cancer (born 1943); died in the USA
  7 December – David Astor, newspaper publisher (born 1912)
  16 December – Stuart Adamson, guitarist, vocalist and songwriter (born 1958)
  26 December – Nigel Hawthorne, actor (born 1929)
caption: Douglas Adams
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