Date someone died

[sunflower71]

Bit morbid but a friend passed away back in 1990, over the years I have forgotten the actual date. I obviously know his full name but where can I go to find out the actual date?
thanks

[Octavius]

Find the local GRO where the death was likely to have been registered and you should be able to research the death certificate there and find the date.

http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/

[RATTER15]

Can you look at a gravestone locally maybe, they sometimes have only the age of death though. or try above thread. Good luck

[shammydodger]

There are sites, such as 1837online, where you can search the indexes (or, for pedants, indices). There is a small fee for this but, if you know the exact year, you will need to perform a maximum of only 4 searches because the index for each year is split into quarters (January to March, April to June, July to September and October to December.) I seem to recall that the fee is 10p per page looked at, so it ought to cost you next-to-nowt to find the reference. Having found it, you can either contact the local GRO and purchase the certificate for �7, purchase it from the National Records Office at Smedley Hydro (same price) or, if you live in the area where the death occurred, try searching the local press death notices around the time in question. What you do, I suppose, depends on how quickly you want the information and what you are prepared to pay for it.

[angeldraws]

This may help too - its free but check the dates of the records you're looking in....
http://www.ancestry.co.uk/