page_title: 2017 in the United Kingdom
section_title: December
hierarchical_section_title: 2017 in the United Kingdom / Deaths / December
caption_attribution_description: English: Suzanna Leigh
context_page_description: Events from the year 2017 in the United Kingdom.
context_section_description: 2 December
  Hugh Davies, 85, cricketer (Glamorgan).
  Alan Sinfield, 76, literary critic.
  3 December – Ian Twitchin, 65, footballer (Torquay United).
  4 December
  Alastair Bellingham, haematologist, President of the Royal College of Pathologists (1993–1996).
  Jimmy Hood, 69, politician, MP for Clydesdale (1987–2005), and Lanark and Hamilton East (2005–2015).
  Christine Keeler, 75, model and showgirl involved in the Profumo affair.
  Annette Page, 84, ballerina.
  5 December
  Maureen Baker, 97, fashion designer.
  Meic Povey, 67, actor and playwright (Pobol y Cwm).
  Pamela Tudor-Craig, 89, art historian.
  7 December
  John Catt, 78, geologist and soil scientist.
  Rodney Harris, 85, geneticist.
  Tommy Horton, 76, golfer.
  Peter Walwyn, 84, racehorse trainer.
  8 December – Jack Hayward, 86, political scientist.
  9 December – Damian Le Bas, 54, artist.
  10 December
  John Beer, 91, literary critic.
  Max Clifford, 74, disgraced former publicist and convicted sex offender.
  Collier Bay, 27, racehorse.
  Arnold Maran, 80, surgeon, President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (1997–2000).
  Toni Mascolo, 75, Italian-born hairdresser and businessman, co-founder of Toni & Guy.
  11 December
  Keith Chegwin, 60, television presenter (Cheggers Plays Pop, It's a Knockout) and actor (Macbeth).
  Suzanna Leigh, 72, actress (Paradise, Hawaiian Style).
  Sir Hereward Wake, 101, baronet and army officer.
  12 December
  Peter Duffell, 95, film and TV director (The House That Dripped Blood, England Made Me, Inside Out).
  Bob Hale, 72, philosopher.
  14 December – Michael Hirst, 84, art historian.
  15 December
  John Critchinson, 82, jazz pianist.
  Heinz Wolff, 89, German-born scientist and television presenter (The Great Egg Race).
  16 December – Sharon Laws, 43, racing cyclist.
  18 December – Fritz Lustig, 98, German-born army intelligence officer.
  19 December
  Jon Oberlander, 55, cognitive scientist.
  Sir Peter Terry, 91, Royal Air Force marshal and politician, Governor of Gibraltar (1985–1989).
  20 December
  Randolph Quirk, Baron Quirk, 97, linguist and life peer.
  David Grant Walker, 94, historian.
  21 December – Nicholas Rayner, 79, Army officer and auctioneer.
  22 December
  Cyril Beavon, 80, footballer (Oxford United).
  Eric Moonman, 88, politician, MP for Billericay (1966–1970) and Basildon (1974–1979), and chairman of the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland (1975–1980).
  23 December
  John Atkinson, 71, rugby league player (Leeds Rhinos, England).
  Mark Whittow, 60, archaeologist and Byzantinist.
  24 December
  Brian Jenkins, 74, swimmer, European championship silver medallist (1962).
  Sir Brian Neill, 94, judge, Lord Justice of Appeal (1985–1996), President of the Court of Appeal for Gibraltar (1998–2003).
  26 December
  Willie Penman, 78, footballer (Newcastle United, Swindon Town, Walsall).
  Steve Piper, 64, footballer (Brighton and Hove Albion, Portsmouth).
  Francis Walmsley, 91, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of the Forces (1979–2002).
  27 December – Bernard Gordon Lennox, 85, Army general, Commandant of the British Sector in Berlin (1983–1986).
  28 December
  Bronwen, Lady Astor, 87, model, psychotherapist and society figure.
  John Faulkner, 69, footballer (Luton Town, Memphis Rogues, California Surf).
  Francis Wyndham, 93, author, literary editor and journalist.
  29 December – Jim Baikie, 77, comic book artist (Judge Dredd, Skizz, Jinty).
  30 December – Gavin Stamp, 69, architectural historian.
  31 December
  Richard Cousins, 58, businessman and CEO (Compass Group).
  Charles Alexander Ramsay, 81, Army officer.
caption: Suzanna Leigh
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