January • 1 January –
John Lyon, cricketer (b. 1951) • 2 January –
David R. Ross, historian (b. 1958) • 3 January – Sir
Ian Brownlie, barrister (b. 1932) • 4 January •
Neil Christian, singer (b. 1943) •
Tony Clarke, record producer (b. 1941) •
Hywel Teifi Edwards, Welsh-language academic and writer (b. 1934) • 5 January –
Philippa Scott, conservationist (b. 1918) • 6 January •
Michael Goulder, biblical scholar (b. 1927) •
Graham Leonard, Anglican
Bishop of London (1981–1991) and later Roman Catholic priest (b. 1921) • 7 January •
Alex Parker, footballer and football manager (b. 1935) •
James D Robertson, painter (b. 1931) • 9 January •
Rupert Hamer, journalist (b. 1970) •
Thomas Summers West, chemist (b. 1927) • 10 January –
Simon Digby, scholar (b. 1932) • 12 January •
Elizabeth Laverick, engineer (b. 1925) •
Allen McClay, entrepreneur, founder of
Almac Group (b. 1932) • 15 January –
Michael Creeth, biochemist (b. 1924) • 19 January –
Bill McLaren, rugby commentator (b. 1923) • 20 January •
Jack Parry, footballer (b. 1924) •
John Pawle, cricketer (b. 1915) •
Derek Prag, politician,
MEP for Hertfordshire (1979–1994) (b. 1923) • 22 January • Sir
Percy Cradock, diplomat (b. 1923) •
Gordon Richardson, Baron Richardson of Duntisbourne, banker,
Governor of the Bank of England (1973–1983) (b. 1915) •
Jean Simmons, actress (b. 1929) • 28 January •
Patricia H. Clarke, biochemist (b. 1919) •
Patricia Leonard, opera singer (b. 1936) • 29 January – Sir
Derek Hodgkinson, air chief marshal (b. 1917) • 30 January •
Lucienne Day, textile designer (b. 1917) •
Ursula Mommens, potter (b. 1908) • 31 January –
Patricia Gage, actress (b. 1940)
February • 2 February –
Donald Wiseman, assyriologist (b. 1918) • 3 February –
Gil Merrick, footballer and football manager (b. 1920) • 4 February –
Allan Wicks, organist and choirmaster (b. 1923) • 5 February •
Peter Calvocoressi, historian, publisher and intelligence officer (b. 1912) •
Ian Carmichael, actor (b. 1920) • 6 February •
Albert Booth, politician (b. 1928) • Sir
John Dankworth, jazz composer and musician (b. 1927) • 7 February –
Daniel Joseph Bradley, physicist (b. 1928) • 9 February •
Alfred Gregory, mountaineer and photographer (b. 1913) •
Malcolm Vaughan, singer and actor (b. 1929) • 10 February –
David Tyacke, Army major-general (b. 1915) • 11 February •
Alexander McQueen, fashion designer (b. 1969) •
David Severn, writer (b. 1918) •
Colin Ward, anarchist writer (b. 1924) • 13 February •
Werner Forman, photographer (b. 1921, Czechoslovakia) •
Cy Grant, actor (b. 1919, British Guiana) •
John Reed, actor and opera singer (b. 1916) •
Roger Thatcher, statistician (b. 1926) • 14 February –
Dick Francis, novelist and former jockey (b. 1920) • 15 February –
Claud William Wright, civil servant and scientific expert (b. 1917) • 19 February •
Lionel Jeffries, actor (b. 1926) •
Walter Plowright, veterinary scientist (b. 1923) • 20 February –
Jason Wood, comedian (b. 1972) • 21 February –
Bob Doe,
Battle of Britain air ace (b. 1920) • 22 February –
Robin Davies, actor (b. 1954) • 23 February –
Wyn Morris, orchestral conductor (b. 1929) • 25 February –
Barbara Bray, translator (b. 1924) • 26 February –
Charles le Gai Eaton, diplomat and author (b. 1921, Switzerland) • 27 February –
Wendy Toye, actress (b. 1917) • 28 February •
Martin Benson, actor (b. 1918) •
Rose Gray, chef and cookery writer (b. 1939)
March • 1 March –
Kristian Digby, television presenter and director (b. 1977) • 2 March –
Winston Churchill, politician (b. 1940); grandson of former prime minister
Sir Winston Churchill • 3 March •
Keith Alexander, footballer and manager (b. 1956) •
Michael Foot, politician,
Leader of the Opposition (1980–1983) (b. 1913) • 4 March –
Fred Wedlock, folk singer (b. 1942) • 5 March –
Philip Langridge, tenor (b. 1939) • 6 March –
Carol Marsh, actress (b. 1926) • 7 March – Sir
Kenneth Dover, classicist, President of the
British Academy (1978–1981) (b. 1920) • 10 March –
George Webb, jazz musician (b. 1917) • 12 March –
Lesley Duncan, singer-songwriter (b. 1943) • 13 March –
Neville Meade, boxer (b. 1948, Jamaica) • 14 March •
Chimen Abramsky, historian (b. 1916, Russian Empire) •
Janet Simpson, Olympic athlete (b. 1944) • 15 March –
Ashok Kumar, politician (b. 1956) • 17 March –
Charlie Gillett, radio presenter and record producer (b. 1942) • 18 March –
William Wolfe, Scottish politician (b. 1924) • 19 March •
Gerald Drucker, double bass player (b. 1925) •
George Lane, World War II Army colonel (b. 1915) • 20 March •
Harry Carpenter, sports commentator (b. 1925) •
Ian Knight, stage designer (b. 1940) •
Robin Milner, computer scientist (b. 1934) • 22 March • Sir
James W. Black, doctor (b. 1924) •
Diz Disley, jazz guitarist (b. 1931, Canada) • 23 March –
Alan King-Hamilton, barrister and judge (b. 1904) • 24 March •
William Mayne, writer of children's fiction (b. 1928) •
Daphne Park, diplomat and spy (b. 1921) • 27 March •
Stephen Hearst, television and radio executive (b. 1919, Austria) •
Stanley Vann, organist and composer (b. 1910) • 28 March •
David Carnegie, 14th Earl of Northesk, peer (b. 1954) •
John Lawrenson, rugby league player (b. 1921)
April • 1 April –
Julia Lang, actress and radio presenter (b. 1921) • 3 April –
Tia Rigg, murder victim (b. 1998) • 4 April – Sir
Alec Bedser, cricketer (b. 1918) • 5 April –
William Neill, poet (b. 1922) • 6 April •
James Aubrey, actor (b. 1947, Austria) •
David Quayle, entrepreneur, co-founder of
B&Q (b. 1936) •
Corin Redgrave, actor and political activist (b. 1939) •
Sid Storey, footballer (b. 1919) • 7 April –
Christopher Cazenove, actor (b. 1943) • 8 April •
Mark Colville, 4th Viscount Colville of Culross, peer and judge (b. 1933) •
Antony Flew, philosopher (b. 1923) •
Malcolm McLaren, impresario and former
Sex Pistols manager (b. 1946) • 9 April •
John Griffiths, museum curator (b. 1952) •
Kenneth McKellar, tenor (b. 1927) •
Peter Ramsbotham, 3rd Viscount Soulbury, peer and diplomat,
Governor of Bermuda (1977–1980) (b. 1919) • 10 April –
Sir Gordon Shattock, veterinarian, Conservative politician and survivor of the
Brighton hotel bombing (b. 1928) • 11 April –
John Batchelor, racing driver and politician (b. 1959) • 12 April –
Stuart Robbins, basketball player (b. 1976) • 13 April –
Gerald Stapleton, World War II air ace (b. 1920) • 14 April •
Tom Ellis, politician (b. 1924) •
Greville Starkey, jockey (b. 1939) • 16 April •
Bryn Knowelden, rugby league player (b. 1919) •
R. D. Middlebrook, electrical engineer (b. 1929) • 18 April –
Tom Fleming, actor (b. 1927) • 21 April •
Sammy Baird, footballer and football manager (b. 1930) • Sir
Idwal Pugh, civil servant (b. 1918) • 22 April –
Peter B. Denyer, electronics engineer (b. 1953) • 23 April •
Edward Lyons, politician (b. 1926) •
George Townshend, 7th Marquess Townshend, Britain's longest-serving peer (b. 1916) • 24 April –
Angus Maddison, economist (b. 1926) • 25 April –
Alan Sillitoe, writer (b. 1928) • 27 April •
Peter Cheeseman, theatre director (b. 1932) •
Morris Pert, musician (b. 1947) • 29 April –
Sandy Douglas, computer scientist (b. 1921) • 30 April –
Antony Grey, gay rights activist (b. 1927)
May • 2 May –
Lynn Redgrave, actress (b. 1943) • 3 May •
Jimmy Gardner, actor (b. 1924) •
Peter O'Donnell, comic strip writer (b. 1920) • 4 May –
Peter Heathfield, trade unionist (b. 1929) • 6 May –
Dennis Sharp, architect (b. 1923) • 7 May –
Pamela Green, actress (b. 1929) • 8 May –
Alan Watkins, political journalist (b. 1933) • 10 May •
Jack Birkett, dancer, singer, mime artist and actor (b. 1934) •
Charles Currey, Olympic sailor (b. 1916) • 15 May –
John Shepherd-Barron, inventor of the
automatic teller machine (b. 1925) • 16 May –
Frank Dye, sailor (b. 1928) • 17 May –
Richard Gregory, psychologist (b. 1923) • 18 May –
John Gooders, ornithologist (b. 1937) • 20 May –
Leonard Wolfson, Baron Wolfson, businessman and life peer (b. 1927) • 22 May –
Keith Jessop, diver and marine treasure hunter (b. 1933) • 23 May –
Simon Monjack, screenwriter, producer and director (b. 1970) • 24 May •
Ray Alan, ventriloquist (b. 1930) •
Barbara New, actress (b. 1923) •
Stella Nova (formerly Steve New), rock guitarist (b. 1960) • 26 May – Sir
Christopher Moran, RAF air marshal (b. 1956) • 28 May • Sir
Hugh Ford, engineer (b. 1913) •
David Sanger, organist (b. 1947) • 29 May •
Joan Rhodes, actress (b. 1921) •
Rudi Vis, politician (b. 1941, the Netherlands) • 30 May –
Brian Duffy, photographer (b. 1933)
June with Judy Garland • 1 June –
John Hagart, footballer and football manager (b. 1937) • 3 June •
John Hedgecoe, photographer (b. 1932) •
Robert Hudson, broadcaster (b. 1920) • 4 June •
Raymond Allchin, archaeologist (b. 1923) •
Jack Harrison, Royal Air Force pilot, last survivor of the
Stalag Luft III Great Escape (b. 1912) • 5 June –
Angus Douglas-Hamilton, 15th Duke of Hamilton, peer and landowner (b. 1938) • 7 June –
Stuart Cable, rock drummer (b. 1970) • 8 June –
Crispian St. Peters, singer-songwriter (b. 1939) • 11 June •
Bernie Andrews, radio producer (b. 1933) •
Teresa Jungman, socialite (b. 1907) •
Johnny Parker, jazz pianist (b. 1929) • 12 June •
Richard Keynes, physiologist (b. 1919) •
Egon Ronay, food critic (b. 1915, Hungary) • 16 June –
Ronald Neame, director and writer (b. 1911) • 17 June •
Sebastian Horsley, artist (b. 1962) •
Andy Ripley, rugby union player (b. 1947) • 19 June •
Robin Matthews, economist (b. 1927) •
Antony Quinton, Baron Quinton, philosopher (b. 1925) • Dame
Angela Rumbold, politician (b. 1932) • 20 June –
Harry B. Whittington, palaeontologist (b. 1916) • 21 June •
Russell Ash, writer and publisher (b. 1946) •
Chris Sievey, comedian and musician (b. 1955) •
Tam White, musician and actor (b. 1942) • 22 June –
Robin Bush, historian (b. 1943) • 23 June •
Michael Cobb, Army officer and railway historian (b. 1916) •
Pete Quaife, musician (b. 1943) •
Peter Walker, Baron Walker of Worcester, politician (b. 1932) • 25 June •
Brian Flowers, Baron Flowers, physicist (b. 1924) •
F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre, science fiction writer (b. 1948) •
Alan Plater, writer (b. 1935) • 27 June –
Ken Coates, politician and writer (b. 1930) • 30 June –
Harry Klein, jazz saxophonist (b. 1928)
July • 1 July –
Geoffrey Hutchings, actor (b. 1939) • 2 July – Dame
Beryl Bainbridge, novelist (b. 1934) • 3 July –
Frederick Warner, engineer (b. 1910) • 5 July •
David Fanshawe, composer (b. 1942) •
Pete Morgan, poet (b. 1919) •
Elton Younger, Army major-general (b. 1919) • 6 July –
Roy Waller, radio presenter (b. 1940) • 8 July –
John Moore, Royal Navy officer and writer (b. 1921) • 9 July •
Mark Bytheway,
Quizzing World Champion (2008) (b. 1963) •
Basil Davidson, historian (b. 1914) •
Marrack Goulding, diplomat (b. 1936) • 10 July •
David Gay, Army major and cricketer (b. 1920) •
Leonard Hemming, cricketer (b. 1916) • 12 July –
James P. Hogan, science fiction writer (b. 1941) • 13 July •
Ken Barnes, footballer (b. 1929) •
Alan Hume, cinematographer (b. 1924) • 16 July –
Verily Anderson, author and biographer (b. 1915) • 17 July – Sir
Simon Hornby, businessman (b. 1934) • 18 July –
Mary Brancker veterinary surgeon (b. 1914) • 20 July •
Iris Gower, writer (b. 1935) •
Robin McLaren, diplomat (b. 1934) • 21 July •
Edna Healey, writer and filmmaker (b. 1918); wife of
Denis Healey •
Anthony Rolfe Johnson, opera singer (b. 1940) • 24 July –
Alex Higgins, snooker player (b. 1949) • 26 July –
Eric Hill, cricketer (b. 1923) • 28 July –
Ivy Bean, centenarian (b. 1905) • 29 July –
Carl Dooler, rugby league player (b. 1943) • 31 July –
John Gorst, politician (b. 1928)
August • 3 August –
James L. Gray, engineer (b. 1926) • 6 August •
Julian Besag, statistician (b. 1945) •
Tony Judt, historian (b. 1948) •
John Louis Mansi, actor (b. 1926) • 7 August –
John Nelder, statistician (b. 1924) • 8 August •
Alan Myers, translator (b. 1933) •
Jack Parnell, musician and bandleader (b. 1923) • 9 August –
Robin Warwick Gibson, art historian (b. 1944) • 10 August •
Jimmy Reid, trade union activist (b. 1932) •
Adam Stansfield, footballer (b. 1978) • 11 August •
Gretel Beer, cookery writer (b. 1921, Austria) •
Geoffrey Johnson-Smith, politician (b. 1924) •
James Mourilyan Tanner, paediatrician (b. 1920) • 12 August •
Laurence Gardner, author and lecturer (b. 1943) •
Andrew Roth, biographer and journalist (b. 1919) • 13 August •
Albert Frost, businessman (b. 1914) •
Edwin Newman, newscaster and journalist (b. 1919, USA) • 14 August –
Mervyn Alexander, Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1925) • 15 August -
Paul Briscoe, schoolteacher and writer (b. 1930) • 16 August –
Christopher Freeman, economist (b. 1921) • 17 August •
John Amyas Alexander, archaeologist (b. 1922) •
Bill Millin, bagpiper at the D-Day Normandy landings (b. 1922) •
Edwin Morgan, poet (b. 1920) • 20 August –
Carys Bannister, neurosurgeon (b. 1935) • 21 August –
Peter Gwynn-Jones, herald,
Garter Principal King of Arms (b. 1940) • 22 August •
Raymond Hawkey, graphic designer (b. 1930) • Sir
Donald Maitland, diplomat (b. 1922) • 25 August –
Andrew S. C. Ehrenberg, marketing scientist (b. 1926) • 26 August –
Bob Maitland, Olympic cyclist (b. 1924) • 27 August •
Corinne Day, fashion photographer (b. 1962) •
Andrew McIntosh, Baron McIntosh of Haringey, politician and life peer (b. 1933) •
Colin Tennant, 3rd Baron Glenconner, peer (b. 1926) • 28 August •
Keith Batey, World War II codebreaker (b. 1919) •
John Freeborn, World War II air ace (b. 1919) • 30 August •
Owen Edwards, broadcaster (b. 1933) •
Nicholas Lyell, Baron Lyell of Markyate, politician and life peer (b. 1938) • 31 August •
Vladimir Raitz, entrepreneur (b. 1922, Soviet Union) •
Sid Rawle, campaigner (b. 1945)
September • 1 September – Sir
Colville Barclay, painter and botanist (b. 1913) • 2 September –
Jackie Sinclair, footballer (b. 1943) • 3 September •
Micky Burn, journalist and poet (b. 1912) • Sir
Cyril Smith, politician (b. 1928) • 4 September –
John Gouriet, Army major and political campaigner (b. 1935) • 5 September –
Elizabeth Jenkins, author and biographer (b. 1905) • 6 September –
Clive Donner, film director (b. 1926) • 10 September –
Edwin Charles Tubb, science fiction writer (b. 1919) • 11 September •
Tom Bingham, Baron Bingham of Cornhill, judge (b. 1933) •
Hugh Clark, Army officer (b. 1923) • 12 September –
Honor Frost, underwater archaeologist (b. 1917) • 13 September •
John Arundel Barnes, social anthropologist (b. 1918) •
Stan Gooch, psychologist (b. 1932) •
Jim Greenwood, rugby union player (b. 1928) • 14 September •
James Cleminson, soldier and businessman (b. 1921) •
Nicholas Selby, actor (b. 1925) • 15 September –
Frank Jarvis, actor (b. 1941) • 16 September –
Jim Towers, footballer (b. 1933) • 17 September •
Robert Babington, politician (b. 1920) •
Louis Marks, scriptwriter (b. 1928) • 18 September –
Bobby Smith, footballer (b. 1933) • 19 September –
Bob Crossley, artist (b. 1912) • 21 September •
Geoffrey Burgon, composer (b. 1941) •
Maurice Line, librarian (b. 1928) •
Don Partridge, singer-songwriter (b. 1941) • 22 September •
Bridget O'Connor, writer (b. 1961) •
Alan Rudkin, boxer (b. 1941) • 23 September –
Catherine Walker, fashion designer (b. 1945, France) • 24 September –
Gilda O'Neill, writer and historian (b. 1951) • 26 September •
Johnny Edgecombe, jazz promoter (b. 1932, Antigua and Barbuda) •
Jimi Heselden, entrepreneur (b. 1948) •
Terry Newton, rugby league player (b. 1978) • 27 September •
Trevor Taylor, racing driver (b. 1936) •
Frank Turner, Olympic gymnast (b. 1922) • 28 September – Sir
Trevor Holdsworth, businessman (b. 1927) • 29 September –
David Marques, rugby union player (b. 1932) • 30 September – Sir
Robert Mark, police officer (b. 1917)
October • 1 October •
Ian Buxton, footballer and cricketer (b. 1938) •
Lan Wright, science fiction writer (b. 1923) • 2 October •
Brenda Cowling, actress (b. 1925) •
Sam Lesser, journalist and
Spanish Civil War veteran (b. 1915) •
Gillian Lowndes, ceramics sculptor (b. 1936) • 3 October •
Philippa Foot, philosopher (b. 1920); granddaughter of
Grover Cleveland • Sir
Louis Le Bailly, admiral and director-general of intelligence (b. 1915) • 4 October •
Gordon Lewis, aeronautical engineer (b. 1924) •
Peter Warr, racing driver (b. 1938, Iran) • Sir
Norman Wisdom, actor (b. 1915) • 5 October •
Roy Axe, car designer (b. 1937) •
Roy Ward Baker, film director (b. 1916) • 8 October •
Reg King, singer-songwriter (b. 1945) •
Linda Norgrove, aid worker (killed in Afghanistan) (b. 1974) •
Neil Richardson, composer (b. 1930) • 10 October •
Les Gibbard, political cartoonist (b. 1945, New Zealand) •
John Graysmark, production designer (b. 1935) •
Richard Lyon-Dalberg-Acton, 4th Baron Acton, peer and politician (b. 1941) •
Alison Stephens, mandolin player (b. 1970) • 11 October –
Claire Rayner, broadcaster and writer (b. 1931) • 12 October –
Austin Ardill, politician (b. 1917) • 13 October •
Eddie Baily, footballer (b. 1925) •
Mary Malcolm, television journalist (b. 1918) • 14 October –
Simon MacCorkindale, actor (b. 1952) • 15 October –
Malcolm Allison, footballer and football manager (b. 1927) • 18 October •
David Fontana, psychologist (b. 1934) •
Mel Hopkins, footballer (b. 1934) • 19 October •
Graham Crowden, actor (b. 1922) •
John Waterlow, physiologist (b. 1916) • 20 October •
Eva Ibbotson, novelist (b. 1925) •
D. Geraint James, doctor (b. 1922) •
Robert Paynter, cinematographer (b. 1928) •
Julian Roberts, librarian (b. 1930) • 21 October –
Howard Harry Rosenbrock, electrical engineer (b. 1920) • 22 October –
Bill Henderson, politician (b. 1924) • 24 October –
Andy Holmes, rower (b. 1959) • 25 October –
David Burgess, immigration lawyer (murdered) (b. 1947) • 27 October –
William Griffiths, field hockey player (b. 1922) • 28 October •
Robert Dickie, boxer (b. 1964) •
Gerard Kelly, actor (b. 1959) •
Maurice Murphy, trumpeter (b. 1935) • 29 October •
Ronnie Clayton, footballer (b. 1934) •
Geoffrey Crawley, journalist and editor (b. 1926) •
Mervyn Haisman, screenwriter (b. 1928) • 30 October –
John Benson, footballer (b. 1942) • 31 October -
Ted Sorensen, lawyer and politician (b. 1928)
November • 1 November •
Julia Clements, flower arranger and writer (b. 1906) •
Diana Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington, World War II intelligence officer (b. 1922) • 5 November •
Rozsika Parker, psychotherapist and art historian (b. 1945) •
Martin Starkie, actor (b. 1922) • 6 November –
Peter Hilton, mathematician, discoverer of
Hilton's theorem (b. 1923) • 7 November –
Chris Goudge, Olympic athlete (b. 1935) • 9 November •
Elizabeth Carnegy, Baroness Carnegy of Lour, academic and life peer (b. 1925) •
Robin Day, furniture designer (b. 1915) • 10 November –
Jim Farry, football executive (b. 1954) • 13 November –
Norman Dennis, sociologist (b. 1929) • 14 November –
Vince Broderick, cricketer (b. 1920) • 18 November •
Jim Cruickshank, footballer (b. 1941) •
Brian G. Marsden, astronomer (b. 1937) • 19 November –
Byron Duckenfield, RAF fighter pilot and
Battle of Britain veteran (b. 1917) • 20 November –
Jim Yardley, cricketer (b. 1946) • 23 November •
Joyce Howard, actress (b. 1932) •
Ingrid Pitt, actress (b. 1937, Poland) • 24 November –
Michael Samuels, linguist (b. 1920) • 25 November •
Peter Christopherson, musician (b. 1955) •
Bernard Matthews, businessman (b. 1930) •
Colin Slee, Anglican prelate, Dean of
Southwark Cathedral (b. 1945) • 26 November –
Gavin Blyth, producer (b. 1969) • 29 November •
David Fleming, environmental writer (b. 1940) •
John Mantle, Scottish Episcopal bishop (b. 1946) • Sir
Maurice Wilkes, computer scientist (b. 1913) • 30 November •
Robert Potter, church architect (b. 1909) •
Monty Sunshine, clarinetist (b. 1928)
December • 3 December –
Donald Pass, painter (b. 1930) • 6 December –
Tom Crowe, radio presenter (b. 1922, Ireland) • 7 December •
Peter Andry, record producer (b. 1927) •
John E. Baldwin, astronomer (b. 1931) • 8 December –
Trev Thoms, guitarist (b. 1950) • 12 December •
Lachhiman Gurung VC, Gurkha soldier (b. 1917, Nepal) •
Helen Roberts, actress and singer (b. 1912) •
Tom Walkinshaw, racing driver and team owner (b. 1946) • 14 December –
Dale Roberts, footballer (b. 1986) • 16 December –
Richard Adeney, flautist (b. 1920) • 17 December •
Ralph Coates, footballer (b. 1946) •
Dick Gibson, racing driver (b. 1918) • 18 December •
Gerard Mansell, BBC executive (b. 1921) •
James Pickles, judge and tabloid columnist (b. 1925) • 19 December •
Anthony Howard, journalist and broadcaster (b. 1934) •
Roy Romain, Olympic swimmer (b. 1918) • 20 December •
John Alldis, chorus-master and conductor (b. 1929) •
Brian Hanrahan, journalist and broadcaster (b. 1949) • 21 December •
David Hennessy, 3rd Baron Windlesham, peer and politician (b. 1932) •
Bertie Lewis, World War II airman and peace campaigner (b. 1920) • 22 December •
David Cockayne, physicist (b. 1942) •
John Macreadie, trade unionist (b. 1946) • 23 December –
Jayaben Desai, trade union leader (b. 1933, India) • 24 December –
Elisabeth Beresford, author, creator of
the Wombles (b. 1926) • 25 December – Sir
Iain Noble, banker and Gaelic activist (b. 1935) • 26 December •
Bill Jones, footballer (b. 1921) •
Ian Samuel, RAF pilot and diplomat (b. 1915) • 27 December •
Keith Andrew, cricketer (b. 1929) •
Maureen Lehane, opera singer and music festival founder (b. 1932) •
David Aubrey Scott, diplomat (b. 1919) • 28 December –
Jeff Taylor, footballer (b. 1930) • 30 December •
Miranda Guinness, Countess of Iveagh, aristocrat (b. 1939) •
Jenny Wood-Allen, runner, oldest woman to finish a marathon (b. 1911) ==See also==