Ann West, media campaigner (born 1929) 20 February – Sarah Kane, playwright (born 1971) 23 February – David Chilton Phillips, biologist (born 1924) 24 February Derek Nimmo, actor (accident) (born 1930) David Eccles, 1st Viscount Eccles, politician (born 1904) 2 March – Dusty Springfield, singer (born 1939) 5 March – Tom Denning, Baron Denning, judge (born 1899) 6 March – Dennis Viollet, footballer (born 1933); died in the United States 7 March – Stanley Kubrick, film director (born 1928 in the United States) 9 March – Arnold Machin, artist, coin and stamp designer (born 1911) 17 March – Rod Hull, entertainer (accident) (born 1935) 21 March – Ernie Wise, comedian (born 1925) 3 April – Lionel Bart, composer (born 1930) 4 April – Bob Peck, actor (born 1945) 14 April – Anthony Newley, actor, singer and songwriter (born 1931) 26 April – Jill Dando, journalist and television presenter (murdered) (born 1961) 28 April – Sir Alf Ramsey, footballer and manager (born 1920) 2 May – Oliver Reed, actor (born 1938) 6 May – Johnny Morris, television presenter (born 1916) 8 May – Dirk Bogarde, actor and author (born 1921) 19 May – James Blades, orchestral percussionist (born 1901) 1 June – Christopher Cockerell, inventor (born 1910) 8 June – Christina Foyle, bookshop owner (born 1911) 16 June – David Sutch ("Screaming Lord Sutch"), musician and founder of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party (suicide) (born 1940) 17 June – Cardinal Basil Hume, Archbishop of Westminster (since 1976) (born 1923) 23 June – Buster Merryfield, actor (born 1920) 1 July – William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw, politician (born 1918) 12 July – Bill Owen, actor (born 1914) 21 July – David Ogilvy, businessman (born 1911) 9 August Bob Herbert, original manager of the Spice Girls (car accident) (born 1942) Helen Rollason, television sports presenter (born 1956) 10 August – Jennifer Paterson, television chef, one half of the Two Fat Ladies (born 1928) 15 August – Hugh Casson, architect, writer and artist (born 1910) 5 September – Alan Clark, Conservative Member of Parliament and former government minister (born 1928) 14 September – Charles Crichton, film director and film editor (born 1910) 17 September – Frankie Vaughan, singer and actor (born 1928) 7 October – Deryck Guyler, actor (born 1914) 15 October – Josef Locke, tenor (born 1917 in Northern Ireland); died in Ireland 3 November – Ian Bannen, Scottish actor (car accident)