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Events from the year 1968 in the United Kingdom.
- Monarch - HM Queen Elizabeth II
- Prime Minister - Harold Wilson, Labour Party
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Events
January - April
- March 12 - Mauritius achieves independence from British Rule.
- March 15 - George Brown, British Foreign Secretary, resigns.
- March 17 - A demonstration in London's Grosvenor Square against U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War leads to violence - 91 police injured, 200 demonstrators arrested.
- April 7 - Racing driver Jim Clark is killed in a Formula 2 race at Hockenheim.
- April 20 - Enoch Powell makes his controversial Rivers of Blood Speech.
May - August
- June 20 - Austin Currie, Member of Parliament (MP) at Stormont in Northern Ireland, along with others, squats a house in Caledon to protest discrimination in housing allocations.
- August 11 - The last steam passenger train service runs in Britain. A British Rail steam locomotive makes the 314-mile journey from Liverpool to Carlisle and returns to Liverpool before being dispatched to the wrecking yard.
September - December
- October 5 - A civil rights march in Derry, (of the 6 counties of northern) Ireland, which included several Stormont and British MPs, is batoned off the streets by the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
Unknown dates
Births
January - April
- 12 January - Heather Mills McCartney, British campaigner and estranged wife of the former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney
- 27 January - Tricky (born Adrian Thaws), English rapper and musician
- 16 February - Warren Ellis, British comic-book and graphic-novel writer
- February 18 - Tommy Scott, British musician and frontman of 1990s' Britpop group Space
- March 2 - Daniel Craig, British actor
- March 4 - Patsy Kensit, English actress
- 5 March - Theresa Villiers, British Conservative politician and MP for Chipping Barnet
- 18 March - Paul Marsden, British Labour/Liberal Democrat politician
- 21 March - Jaye Davidson, British actor
- March 23 - Mike Atherton, English cricketer
- March 23 - Damon Albarn, English musician (Blur and Gorillaz)
- 26 March - Chris Ward, British chess Grandmaster, chess coach, and author
- March 28 - Nasser Hussain, English cricketer
- 8 April - Jenny Powell, British television presenter
- 22 April - Amanda Mealing, British actress
- 23 April - Ricky Groves, English actor
May - August
- 4 May - Julian Barratt, English comedian and actor
- 8 May - Rachel Jordan, British artist
- 9 May - Ruth Kelly, British Labour politician, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, and MP for Bolton West
- 12 May - Catherine Tate, comedienne
- 27 May - Rebekah Wade, British journalist and editor of The Sun
- 29 May - Torquhil Ian Campbell, 13th Duke of Argyll, Scottish peer
- 29 May - Jessica Morden, British Labour politician and MP for Newport East
- June 2 - John Culshaw, English comedian and impressionist
- 5 June - Edward Vaizey, British Conservative politician and MP for Wantage
- June 13 - Marcel Theroux, British novelist and broadcaster, and son of American writer Paul Theroux
- June 26 - Iwan Roberts, Welsh footballer
- June 28 - Adam Woodyatt, British actor
- 20 July - Julian Rhind-Tutt, English film, television and radio actor
- 22 July - Rhys Ifans, Welsh Actor
- August 14- Darren Clarke, Northern Irish golfer
- 26 July - Olivia Williams, English actress
- 5 August - Colin McRae, Scottish rally driver
- 14 August - Adrian Lester, British actor
- August 22 - Elisabeth Murdoch, Australian-born business executive
- 26 August - Chris Boardman, English racing cyclist
September - December
- 9 September - Julia Sawalha, English actress
- 9 September - Anas Altikriti, British Anti-War activist
- 14 September - Grant Shapps, British Conservative politician and MP for Welwyn Hatfield
- September 20 - Phillipa Forrester, British TV presenter
- September 28 - Naomi Watts, English-born actress
- 1 October - Mark Durden-Smith, British television presenter
- October 2 - Victoria Derbyshire, British Radio presenter
- October 3 - Paul Crichton, English footballer
- October 7 - Thom Yorke, British singer/songwriter
- October 14 - Matthew Le Tissier, English footballer
- 14 October - Roger Moorhouse, British historian and author
- 27 October - Martin Clark, English snooker player
- November 10 - Steve Brookstein, British singer
- November 18 - Barry Hunter, Northern Irish footballer and football manager
- 22 November - Andrew Gilligan, British journalist
- 20 December - Phil Andrews, British race car driver
- 23 December - Siôn Simon, British Labour politician and MP for Birmingham Erdington
Unknown dates
- Moazzam Begg, British Islamist once held in extrajudicial detention in the US Guantanamo Bay detainment camp]
- James Brokenshire, British Conservative politician and MP for Hornchurch
- Matthew d'Ancona, British journalist and editor of The Spectator
- Andrew O'Hagan, Scottish writer and novelist
- Chris Ofili, English painter
- Paul Rowen, British Liberal Democrat politician and MP for Rochdale
Deaths
January-March
- February 20 - Anthony Asquith, British director and writer (b. 1902)
April-June
- April 7 - Jimmy Clark, Scottish race car driver (b. 1936)
- May 7 - Mike Spence British race car driver (b. 1936)
- June 24 - Tony Hancock, British comedian (b. 1924)
July-December
- July 23 - Henry Hallett Dale, English scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1875)
- August 19 - George Gamow, Ukrainian-born physicist (b. 1904)
- August 27 - Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent (b. 1906)
- September 12 - Tommy Armour, Scottish golfer (b. 1894)
References
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