page_title: 2008 in the United Kingdom
section_title: December
hierarchical_section_title: 2008 in the United Kingdom / Deaths / December
caption_attribution_description: English: Screenshot from Harold Pinter's Nobel Prize lecture, 27 December 2005
context_page_description: Events from the year 2008 in the United Kingdom.
context_section_description: 1 December
  James Bree, actor (born 1923)
  John Wall, lawyer and blind rights campaigner (born 1930)
  2 December – Patrick Maitland, 17th Earl of Lauderdale, peer (born 1911)
  3 December – Derek Wadsworth, jazz trombonist and composer (born 1939)
  4 December – Richard Van Allan, opera singer (born 1935)
  6 December – Sir Curtis Keeble, diplomat, Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1978–1982) (born 1922)
  7 December – John Ellis Williams, Welsh author (born 1924)
  8 December
  Oliver Postgate, animator, puppeteer and writer (born 1925)
  Bob Spiers, television director (born 1945)
  13 December – Kathy Staff, actress (born 1928)
  15 December – Davey Graham, guitarist (born 1950)
  16 December – Richard Coleman, actor (born 1930)
  18 December
  Peter Malam Brothers, World War II pilot (born 1917)
  Jack Douglas, actor (Carry On films) (born 1927)
  Hannah Frank, sculptor (born 1908)
  19 December – Sir Bernard Crick, political theorist (born 1929)
  20 December – Adrian Mitchell, poet and novelist (born 1932)
  23 December – Eric Wilson, lieutenant-colonel, last British Army recipient of the Victoria Cross from the Second World War (born 1912)
  24 December – Harold Pinter, playwright (born 1930)
  25 December – Colin White, military historian (born 1951)
  27 December – Patricia Kneale, actress (born 1925)
  28 December – Sir Michael Levey, art historian (born 1927)
caption: Harold Pinter
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