– Brian May, guitarist 14 August – Maddy Prior, folk singer 17 September – Lol Creme, singer (10cc) 27 September – Barbara Dickson, singer 25 October – Glenn Tipton, rock guitarist 5 November – Peter Noone, singer, "Herman" of Herman's Hermits 10 November – Greg Lake (Emerson, Lake & Palmer) (died 2016) 29 December – Cozy Powell, drummer (died 1998) 30 December – Jeff Lynne, singer, songwriter and producer (The Move, Electric Light Orchestra) Deaths 11 March – Victor Hely-Hutchinson, South African-born British composer, 45 (pneumonia) 2 May – Louie Henri, singer and actress, 83 3 May – Katie Moss, violinist, pianist, singer, and composer of "The Floral Dance", 66 30 May – Sir Sydney Nicholson, choir director, organist and composer, 72 2 June – Herman Darewski, composer and conductor, 64 24 July – Ernest Austin, composer, 72 11 September – Walter Galpin Alcock, organist and composer, 85 29 October – Theodore Holland, composer, 69 14 December – Will Fyffe, comedian and singer, 62 (fell from hotel room window) See also 1947 in British television 1947 in the United Kingdom List of British films of 1947 References British Music, 1947 In British music by year