page_title: 2019 in the United Kingdom
section_title: December
hierarchical_section_title: 2019 in the United Kingdom / Deaths / December
caption_attribution_description: English: David Bellamy
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 December – Sir John Kerr, 82, Royal Navy admiral, Chief of Defence Intelligence (1988–1991), Commander-in-Chief, Naval Home Command (1992–1993).
  3 December – Donald Tosh, 84, screenwriter (Doctor Who).
  4 December
  Sheila Mercier, 100, actress (Emmerdale).
  Bob Willis, 70, English cricketer (Surrey, Warwickshire, national team).
  6 December
  Maurice Mounsdon, 101, Battle of Britain RAF pilot.
  Michael Peacock, 90, television executive.
  7 December
  Kate Figes, 62, author.
  Ron Saunders, 87, English footballer (Portsmouth) and football manager (Aston Villa, Birmingham City).
  Simon Streatfeild, 90, violist and orchestral conductor.
  8 December – Roy Cheetham, 79, English footballer (Manchester City).
  9 December – Elizabeth Sutherland, 24th Countess of Sutherland, 98, Scottish noblewoman, chief of Clan Sutherland.
  10 December
  Natalie Harrowell, 29, English rugby league player (Featherstone Rovers, national team).
  Barrie Keeffe, 74, screenwriter (The Long Good Friday).
  Jim Smith, 79, English footballer (Boston United) and football manager (Portsmouth, Derby County, Queens Park Rangers).
  11 December
  David Bellamy, 86, naturalist, television presenter (Bellamy's Backyard Safari) and author.
  Paul Crossley, 74, art historian.
  Ann Elizabeth Wee, 93, social worker in Singapore.
  Ian Young, 76, Scottish footballer (Celtic, St Mirren).
  15 December
  Nicky Henson, 74, actor (Fawlty Towers, EastEnders, Downton Abbey).
  David Lambie, 94, politician and MP (1970–1992).
  Sir Thomas Pearson, 105, Army general.
  17 December
  Tom Adams, 93, American-born Scottish illustrator.
  Ron Hogg, 68, police officer, Durham Police and Crime Commissioner (since 2012), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
  Cuchlaine King, 97, geomorphologist.
  Tom White, 80, Scottish footballer (Hearts, Bury, Crystal Palace).
  Peter Wollen, 81, film theorist and filmmaker.
  18 December
  Mary Cosh, 100, freelance journalist and local historian.
  Kenny Lynch, 81, singer ("You Can Never Stop Me Loving You"), actor (Carry On Loving, The Playbirds) and entertainer.
  20 December
  Frank Foster, 79, English rugby league player.
  Billy Hughes, 70, Scottish footballer (Sunderland, Leicester City, national team).
  Bashir Maan, 93, Pakistani-British politician.
  21 December
  Ronald Bowlby, 93, Anglican prelate, Bishop of Southwark (1980–1991).
  Leslie Brent, 94, German-born immunologist and zoologist.
  Martin Peters, 76, English footballer (West Ham United, Norwich City, national team) and football manager, World Cup winner (1966).
  22 December
  Tony Britton, 95, actor (Operation Amsterdam, Sunday Bloody Sunday, The Day of the Jackal).
  Sidney Holt, 93, marine biologist.
  Billy Slade, 78, Welsh cricketer (Glamorgan).
  Gary Talbot, 82, British footballer (Chester, Crewe Alexandra, Drumcondra).
  23 December – Alan Harrington, 86, Welsh footballer (Cardiff City, national team).
  24 December – Andrew Miller, 70, politician, MP (1992–2015).
  25 December
  Martyn King, 82, English footballer (Colchester United, Wrexham).
  Duncan MacKay, 82, Scottish footballer (Celtic, Perth, national team).
  Johnny Matthews, 73, English footballer (Waterford, Limerick) and football manager (Newcastlewest).
  28 December – Robert Baden-Powell, 3rd Baron Baden-Powell, 83, Scouting leader.
  29 December
  Alasdair Gray, 85, Scottish writer (Lanark) and artist.
  Neil Innes, 75, writer, comedian (Monty Python) and musician (The Rutles, Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, Grimms).
  Vaughan Oliver, 62, graphic designer (4AD).
  John Shuker, 77, British footballer (Oxford United).
  30 December
  Micky Block, 79, English footballer (Chelsea).
  Marion Chesney, 83, Scottish novelist (Death of a Gossip, Death of an Outsider, Agatha Raisin and the Deadly Dance).
  Elizabeth Sellars, 98, Scottish actress (The Barefoot Contessa, 55 Days at Peking, The Webster Boy).
  Charles Williams, Baron Williams of Elvel, 86, cricketer (Essex, Oxford University) and business executive, member of the House of Lords (1985–2019).
  Johnny Ward, 78, English rugby league footballer who played in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.
  31 December
  Andrew Hughes Hallett, 72, British economist.
  Basil Watts, 93, English rugby lea
caption: David Bellamy in 1981
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