Celebrity Deaths in the UK - May 2026
3 May – Joyce Hawkins, 95, costume designer (Doctor Who, Vanity Fair, The Hound of the Baskervilles).
4 May – Dame Shirley Porter, 95, British politician, leader of the Westminster City Council (1983–1991) and lord mayor of Westminster (1991–1992)(death announced on this date)
6 May – Jesse Hector, 78, English musician (The Gorillas)
7 May – Jake Hall, 35, actor, model and reality television star (The Only Way is Essex)(death reported on this date)
8 May – Michael Pennington, 82, English actor (Return of the Jedi, The Iron Lady), co-founder of the English Shakespeare Company and writer
9 May – Michael Sefi, 82, British philatelist
10 May
David Burke, 91, British actor (Sherlock Holmes, Reilly, Ace of Spies, The Love School)
Ralph Ottey, 102, Jamaican-born British author and World War II veteran
13 May – Peter Simpson, 81, English footballer (Arsenal)(death announced on this date)
14 May
Caroline Jones, 71, Welsh politician, MS (2016–2021)
Alan Rothwell, 89, English actor (Coronation Street, Brookside, Heartbeat) and television presenter
John Bryan Taylor, 97, British physicist
15 May
Dame Felicity Lott, 79, English soprano, cancer
Jimmy Mann, 73, English footballer (Bristol City, Barnsley, Doncaster Rovers) (death announced on this date)
17 May
Peter Checkland, 95, British management scientist and academic
Scott Hastings, 61, Scottish rugby union player (Watsonians, Edinburgh, national team)
M. J. K. Smith, 92, English cricketer (Leicestershire, Warwickshire, national team)
Jim Irvine, 85, Scottish footballer (Dundee United, Middlesbrough, Barrow)(death announced on this date)
Patrick Sookhdeo, 79, British activist, founder and director of Barnabas Aid (1993–2015)
19 May – John Middleton, 70, English footballer (Bradford City, Macclesfield Tow (death announced on this date)
20 May
Mike Galloway, 60, English-born Scottish football player (Halifax Town, Celtic, national team) and coach (death announced on this date)
Arthur Lewis, 84, Welsh rugby union player (Ebbw Vale, British Lions, national team)(death announced on this date)
21 May
Matthew Biggs, 65, British radio personality (Gardeners' Question Time)
Judith Chalmers, 90, English television presenter (Wish You Were Here...?)
22 May
Bill Albury, 92, English footballer (Portsmouth, Gillingham, Yeovil Town) (death announced on this date)
Sir Jeremy Hanley, 80, British politician, MP (1983–1997)
Dick Parry, 83, English saxophonist (Pink Floyd)
23 May
Brian Large, 87, English opera director
Trevor Meath, 82, English footballer (Walsall, Lincoln City) (death announced on this date)
24 May
Frank McGuigan, 70, Northern Irish Gaelic footballer (Tyrone)
Betty Roe, 95, English composer, singer and vocal coach(death announced on this date)
25 May – Flick Rea, 88, English politician, Camden Borough councillor (1986–2021)
26 May – Linda Mullins, 86, English greyhound racing trainer (death announced on this date)
27 May
Owain Rhys Davies, 44, Welsh actor (Twin Peaks, Alice Through the Looking Glass, A Serial Killer's Guide to Life
Maureen Duffy, 92, English poet, playwright and novelist
Daniel Ingham, 33, British motorcycle racer (Isle of Man TT)
28 May
Alec Penstone, 101, British World War II veteran
Meta Ramsay, Baroness Ramsay of Cartvale, 89, Scottish intelligence officer and peer, member of the House of Lords (since 1996)
29 May
Caroline Marland, 80, British advertiser and newspaper managing director (The Guardian), traffic collision(death announced on this date)
Geoff Keating, 88, British musician (The Master Singers)(death announced on this date)
Doug Shaw, 42, British musician (Gang Gang Dance, White Magic)(death announced on this date)
30 May – Steve Barrow, 80, British reggae producer and historiographer, co-founder of Blood and Fire(death announced on this date)
31 May
John Kear, 71, English rugby league coach (Sheffield Eagles, Wakefield Trinity, Welsh national team)
Matthew Spender, 81, English sculptor and writer (death announced on this date)
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