2020 in the United Kingdom

Football: England | Scotland | Wales 2020 British Grand Prix 70th Anniversary Grand Prix 2020 English cricket season 2020 in British television 2020 in British music 2020 in British radio UK in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 The following is a list of notable events, births and deaths from 2020 in the United Kingdom.

The COVID-19 pandemic largely dominated events in the UK during this year, as in most of the world.

Celebrations in Westminster on the day of the UK's withdrawal from the EU
Empty streets in central London at the end of March 2020
Newly elected Labour leader Keir Starmer
Empty pedestal surrounded by placards the day after the Edward Colston statue was pulled down
A gloss white painted Airbus A330-243 MRTT with a red, white and blue 'Union Jack' flag on its vertical tail fin and UNITED KINGDOM in gold lettering on its upper fuselage, operated by the Royal Air Force, which has been modified for military and VIP use, is about to land RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire, England.
ZZ336 Vespina , the Royal Air Force's (RAF) VIP Voyager KC3 returns to RAF Brize Norton following completion of major servicing and her new 'Global Britain' gloss-white livery.
Newly elected Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey
Derek Acorah in 2013
Roger Scruton
Derek Fowlds in 1974
Robert Maclennan, Baron Maclennan of Rogart in 2018
Terry Jones in 2014
Nicholas Parsons in 2007
Andy Gill in 2015
Terry Hands in 1972
John Shrapnel
Caroline Flack in 2012
Andrew Weatherall in 2009
Roy Hudd in 2005
Michael Broadbent in 2005
Betty Williams in 1996
Peter Whittingham in 2016
David Collings
Tristan Garel-Jones in 2011
Jack Schofield in 2009
Honor Blackman in 1969
Tim Brooke-Taylor in 2014
Stirling Moss in 1958
John Houghton in 2005
Ian Whitcomb in 1990
Jimmy Goodfellow in 2009
Lynn Faulds Wood in 2010
Brian Howe in 2009
Phil May in 2013
Heather Chasen
Christian Mbulu in 2017
Rosemary Hollis in 2013
Vera Lynn circa 1973
Ian Holm in 2004
Julian Curry in 2011
Earl Cameron in 2017
Johnny Beattie in 2009
Jack Charlton in 1969
Stuart Wheeler in 2009
Olivia de Havilland in 1938
Sir Alan Parker in 2008
Anthony Lester, Baron Lester of Herne Hill
Gordon J. Brand
Chris Eccleshall in 2014
Pete Way in 2007
Ken Robinson in 2009
Peter King
Dame Diana Rigg in 1973
Anne Stevenson in 2009
Sir Harold Evans in 2009
John D. Barrow in 2012
Peregrine Worsthorne in 1989
Bobby Ball in 2013
Sir Sean Connery in 1983
John Sessions in 2018
Ray Clemence in 1981
Hamish MacInnes
David Prowse in 2013
Dame Barbara Windsor in 2010
John le Carré in 2008
Jeremy Bulloch in 2016