2010) 7 March – Matthew Fisher (Procol Harum) 21 March – Ray Dorset (Mungo Jerry) 1 April – Ronnie Lane, singer, songwriter and guitarist (The Faces) (died 1997) 2 April – Raymond Gubbay, classical music promoter 4 April – Dave Hill, guitarist (Slade) 11 April – Bob Harris, DJ 10 May Donovan, folk singer Graham Gouldman, singer and songwriter (10cc) Dave Mason, singer-songwriter and guitarist (Traffic and Fleetwood Mac) 15 May – Aly Bain, Scottish fiddler (The Boys of the Lough) 16 May – Robert Fripp, guitarist, composer and record producer 18 May – Bruce Gilbert, guitarist (Wire and Dome) 15 June - Noddy Holder, singer and songwriter (Slade) 19 July – Alan Gorrie, Scottish singer and bass player (Average White Band and Forever More) 23 July – Andy Mackay, saxophonist, oboist, and composer 10 August – Peter Karrie, star of West End musical productions 1 September – Barry Gibb, singer and songwriter 5 September – Freddie Mercury, singer (Queen) (died 1991) 23 September – Duster Bennett, blues singer and musician (died 1976) 28 September – Helen Shapiro, singer 14 October Justin Hayward, guitarist, singer and songwriter (The Moody Blues) Dan McCafferty (Nazareth) 29 October – Peter Green, guitarist and singer 8 November – Roy Wood, singer and songwriter (The Move, Wizzard) 11 November – Chip Hawkes, vocalist and guitarist (The Tremeloes) 24 November – Bev Bevan, drummer (Electric Light Orchestra, Black Sabbath) 1 December – Gilbert O'Sullivan, singer-songwriter 10 December – Ace Kefford, bass player 12 December – Clive Bunker, drummer (Jethro Tull, Electric Sun, Solstice, and Aviator) 14 December – Jane Birkin, French-based actress and singer 16 December – Trevor Pinnock, harpsichordist and conductor 29 December – Marianne Faithfull, singer and actress Deaths 29 January – Sidney Jones, conductor and composer, 84 20 February – Hugh Allen, organist and choral conductor, 76 13 March – Thomas Dunhill, composer and music writer, 69 13 April – W. H. Bell, composer and conductor, 72 1 May Edward Bairstow, organist and composer, 71 Percy Whitlock, organist and composer, 42 (tuberculosis) 16 October – Sir Granville Bantock, composer, 78 10 November – Nicholas Gatty, composer and music critic, 72 5 December – Tom Clare, music hall singer and pianist, 70 15 December – Frederic Norton, composer, 77 See also 1946 in British television 1946 in the United Kingdom List of British films of 1946 References British Music, 1946 In British music by