Celebrity Deaths in the UK - Mar 2026

• 1 March – Kenith Trodd, 90, British television producer (Pennies from Heaven)

• 2 March

  • Kevin Ashcroft, 81, English rugby player (Leigh, Warrington) and coach (Salford)

  • Len Garry, 84, English musician (The Quarrymen)

  • Douglas Hambidge, 98, British-born Canadian Anglican clergyman, bishop of Caledonia (1969–1980) and New Westminster (1980–1993)

  • Mike Vernon, 81, English record producer ("Albatross", "Hocus Pocus"), music executive and recording studio owner (Chipping Norton Recording Studios)

• 3 March – Andrew Watson, 64, British Anglican clergyman, bishop of Aston (2008–2014) and Guildford (since 2014), member of the House of Lords (since 2022)

• 4 March

  • Ray Glastonbury, 87, Welsh rugby union (Cardiff) and league (Workington Town, national team) player (death announced on this date)

  • Bernard Rands, 92, British-American composer

  • Chris Wheeler, 52, English chef

• 5 March –

  • David Wilde, 75, English cricketer (Derbyshire) (death announced on this date)

• 6 March – Eigra Lewis Roberts, 86, Welsh writer, playwright and poet (death announced on this date)

• 7 March

  • Matt Salter, 49, English rugby union (Bristol) and rugby league (London Broncos) player

• 8 March

  • Matt Gallagher, English rugby union player (Coventry R.F.C.)

  • Sir Anthony James Leggett, 87, British-American theoretical physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (2003)

• 9 March – Zeph Ellis, 37, British rapper (death announced on this date)

• 10 March

  • Susan Haack, 80, British philosopher

  • Lloyd Jones, 74, Welsh novelist

• 12 March

  • John Fisher Burns, 81, British journalist (The New York Times)

  • Dame Jenni Murray, 75, English journalist and broadcaster (Woman's Hour)

• 13 March

  • Billy Campbell, 81, footballer (Dundee, Motherwell, national team) (death reported on this date)

  • Phil Campbell, 64, Welsh guitarist (Motörhead, Persian Risk, Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons)

  • Amy Carr, 34, English footballer (Reading, Northern Illinois Huskies, IL Sandviken)

  • Billy McCullough, 90, footballer (Arsenal, Millwall, national team) (death reported on this date)

• 14 March

  • Gordon Wallace, 82, Scottish football player (Dundee, Montrose) and manager (Raith Rovers) (death announced on this date)

  • Phil Woolas, 66, British politician, MP (1997–2010)

• 15 March

  • Len Deighton, 97, British spy novelist and illustrator

  • Jim Fleeting, 70, Scottish football player (Ayr United, Clyde) and manager (Kilmarnock)

  • James M. Houston, 103, British-born Canadian theologian

• 17 March – Tony Bracegirdle, 83, British rose breeder and horticulturist (death announced on this date)

• 18 March – Tom Georgeson, 88, British actor (A Fish Called Wanda, Boys from the Blackstuff, G.B.H.)

• 20 March

  • Ted Booth, 87, British poet (death announced on this date)

  • Robert Fox, 73, English film and television producer (The Hours, The Crown, Iris) (death announced on this date)

  • Christine McCartney, 79, British microbiologist (death announced on this date)

  • Richard Phillips, 85, British music promoter (death announced on this date)

  • Tessa Richards, 75, British physician (death announced on this date)

• 21 March – Jeff Smith, 91, English Hall of Fame motorcycle racer (Motocross World Championship)

• 23 March – Peter Stead, 83, writer and broadcaster

• 25 March

  • Harold Ellis, 100, English surgeon

  • Mick Roberts, 57, English singer

  • David Winnick, 92, British politician, MP (1966–1970, 1979–2017)

• 26 March – Desmond Barrit, 81, Welsh actor (death announced on this date)

• 27 March

  • Alex Cropley, 75, English-Scottish footballer (Hibernian, Aston Villa, Scotland national team) (death announced on this date)

  • Richard Meier, 55, British poet

  • Mary Rand, 86, British track and field athlete, Olympic champion (1964)

  • Geoff Vowden, 84, English footballer (Birmingham City, Aston Villa, Nottingham Forest) (death announced on this date)

• 29 March

  • Glen Baxter, 82, English artist

  • Ben Stevenson, 89, British ballet dancer and teacher

• 30 March

  • Tony Godden, 70, English footballer (Chelsea, Peterborough United, West Bromwich Albion) (death announced on this date)

  • Christopher Haskins, 88, Irish-born businessman and life peer, member of the House of Lords (1998–2020) (death announced on this date)

  • James Stannage, 76, British radio talk show host

• 31 March – Tony Rivers, 85, English singer (Harmony Grass)

Information courtesy Wikipedia