War II marine commando and politician (born 1916) 18 May – Enid Marx, artist and designer (born 1902) 10 June – Hammond Innes, author (born 1914) 11 June – Catherine Cookson, author (born 1906) 13 June Alfred Horace Gerrard, sculptor (born 1899) Kadamba Simmons, actress and model (born 1974); murdered Reg Smythe, cartoonist (born 1917) 22 June – Benny Green, writer, radio broadcaster and saxophonist (b. 1927). 5 July – Johnny Speight, television scriptwriter (born 1920) 9 July – Katherine Russell, social worker and university teacher (born 1909) 11 July – John Boyd-Carpenter, Baron Boyd-Carpenter, politician (born 1908) 18 July – Betty Marsden, comedy actress (born 1919) 23 July – John Hopkins, screenwriter (born 1931); accidentally killed in the United States 25 July – Tiny Rowland, businessman (born 1917) 27 July – Binnie Barnes, actress (born 1903) 3 August – Alan Walsh, physicist, developer of atomic absorption spectroscopy (born 1913) 4 August – Richard Dunn, CEO of Thames Television (born 1943) 9 August – George Child Villiers, 9th Earl of Jersey, peer (born 1910) 22 August – Evelyn Denington, Baroness Denington, politician (born 1907) 2 September – Jackie Blanchflower, footballer (born 1933) 4 September – Lal Waterson, folk singer-songwriter (born 1943) 19 September – Ran Laurie, physician and Olympic rowing champion, father of Hugh Laurie (born 1915) 3 October – Roddy McDowall, actor (born 1928) 6 October – Joseph J. Sandler, psychoanalyst (born 1927) 10 October – Jackie Forster, journalist and lesbian rights activist (born 1926) 17 October – Joan Hickson, actress (born 1906) 20 October – Frank Gillard, radio broadcaster (born 1909) 22 October – Eric Ambler, novelist and playwright (born 1909) 28 October Tommy Flowers, electrical engineer (born 1905) Ted Hughes, poet laureate and children's writer (born 1930) 2 November – Janet Arnold, costume designer (born 1932) 7 November Margaret Gowing, historian (born 1921) John Hunt, Baron Hunt, World War II army officer and leader of the 1953 British Mount Everest Expedition (born 1910) 12 November – Roy Hollis, footballer (born 1925) 13 November – Doug Wright, English cricketer (b. 1914) 24 November – John Chadwick, linguist (born 1920) 29 November – Martin Ruane, British professional wrestler (b. 1947) 1 December – Freddie Young, cinematographer (born 1902) 2 December – Brian Stonehouse, painter and World War II secret agent (born 1918) 7 December – Michael Craze, actor (born 1942) 13 December – Lew Grade, showbusiness impresario and television