22 July – Rob Collins, musician (born 1963); died in a car accident 4 August – Geoff Hamilton, television presenter (born 1936) 6 August – Ossie Clark, fashion designer (born 1942; murdered) 8 August – Sir Neville Francis Mott, physicist (born 1905) 9 August – Sir Frank Whittle, RAF officer and inventor (born 1907) 14 August – Albert Neuberger, biochemist (born 1908, German Empire) 27 August – Abram Games, graphic designer (born 1914) 29 August – Phyllis Pearsall, cartographer and creator of the A–Z (born 1906) 3 September – Julian Amery, Baron Amery of Lustleigh, politician (born 1919) 4 September – Joan Clarke, cryptanalyst and numismatist (born 1917) 10 September – Plantagenet Somerset Fry, historian (born 1931; suicide) 13 September – Jane Baxter, actress (born 1909) 19 September – Douglas Hyde, journalist and writer (born 1911) 23 September – Stuart Piggott, archaeologist (born 1910) 24 September – Mark Frankel, actor (born 1962); accidentally killed 26 September – Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson, chemist (born 1921) 29 September – Leslie Crowther, comedian and TV presenter (born 1933) 6 October – Winifred Drinkwater, aviator and aeroplane engineer (born 1913) 9 October – Roy Lewis, writer and small press printer (born 1913) 11 October – Terry Patchett, Labour Member of Parliament (born 1940) 13 October – Beryl Reid, actress (born 1919) 16 October – Eric Malpass, novelist (born 1910) 22 October – Matthew Harding, businessman (born 1953) 24 October – Gladwyn Jebb, diplomat and politician (born 1900) 3 November – Barry Porter, Conservative Member of Parliament (born 1939) 6 November – Tommy Lawton, footballer (born 1919) 9 November – Roger Makins, 1st Baron Sherfield, diplomat (born 1904) 10 November – Marjorie Proops, journalist (born 1911) 16 November Reginald Bevins, politician (born 1908) Jack Popplewell, playwright (born 1909) 24 November – Sorley MacLean, Scottish Gaelic poet (born 1911) 26 November – Michael Bentine, comedian and comic actor (born 1922) 29 November – Denis Jenkinson, motorsports journalist (born 1920) 9 December Mary Leakey, archaeologist (born 1913) Ivor Roberts-Jones, sculptor (born 1913) 11 December Willie Rushton, comedian, actor and cartoonist (born 1937) W. G. G. Duncan Smith, World War II pilot (born 1914) 15 December – Dave Kaye, pianist (born 1906) 16 December – Quentin Bell, biographer and art historian (born 1910) 17 December – Ruby Murray, Northern Irish singer (born 1925) 18 December – Gwilym Hugh Lewis, World War I air ace (born 1897) 23 December –