Hewlett, actor (born 1907) 6 March – Ursula Torday, novelist (born 1912) 9 March Terry Nation, Welsh screenwriter (born 1930) Dame Veronica Wedgwood, historian (born 1910) 13 March – Ronald Fraser, actor (born 1930) 16 March – John Montague Stow, colonial official (born 1911) 21 March – Rev. W. V. Awdry, children's writer (born 1911) 29 March George William Gregory Bird, physician (born 1916) Norman Pirie, biochemist (born 1907) 1 April – Norman Carr, English environmentalist and author (born 1912) 22 April Reg Gammon, English painter and illustrator (born 1894) Nancy Seear, Baroness Seear, English politician (born 1913) 23 April – Denis Compton, footballer and cricketer (born 1918) 25 April – Dudley Pope, author (born 1925) 27 April – Peter Winch, philosopher (born 1926) 29 April – Isabel Graham Bryce, public servant (born 1902) 6 May – John Edwards Hill, mammologist (born 1928) 8 May Pat Hughes, tennis player (born 1902) Michael Shersby, Member of Parliament (born 1933) 13 May – Laurie Lee, poet and author (born 1914) 2 June – Eddie Thomas, Welsh boxer (born 1925) 19 June – Julia Smith, television producer (born 1927) 30 June – Dame Sylvia Crowe, landscape architect (born 1901) 4 July – John Zachary Young, biologist (born 1907) 7 July – Royston Tickner, English actor (born 1922) 10 July – Ivor Allchurch, former footballer (born 1929) 15 July – Rosamund Greenwood, actress (born 1907) 18 July – Sir James Goldsmith, financier and politician, founder of the Referendum Party (born 1933) 19 July – Frank Farrell, rock bassist (born 1947) 24 July – Brian Glover, actor (born 1934) 28 July – Rosalie Crutchley, actress (born 1920) 29 July – Jack Archer, former sprinter (born 1921) 13 August – Marjorie Lynette Sigley, artist, writer, actress, choreographer and theatre director (born 1928) 18 August – Don Knight, actor (born 1933) 23 August – John Kendrew, molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (born 1917) 24 August – Louis Essen, physicist (born 1908) 31 August Dodi Fayed, Egyptian film producer and heir to Harrods department store (born 1955); died in Paris car crash Diana, Princess of Wales (born 1961); died in hospital after being seriously injured in the same crash 4 September Jeffrey Bernard, journalist (born 1932) Belle Stewart, Scottish singer (born 1906) 6 September – P. H. Newby, novelist (born 1918) 8 September – Derek Taylor, journalist and record producer (born 1932) 17 September