George Trevelyan, 4th Baronet, educational pioneer (born 1906) 11 February Cyril Poole, cricketer (born 1921) Bob Shaw, Northern Irish science fiction writer (born 1931) 14 February – Bob Paisley, footballer and manager (born 1919) 16 February – Kenneth Robinson, politician (born 1911) 27 February Iain Murray, 10th Duke of Atholl, Scottish peer (born 1931) Pat Smythe, show jumper (born 1928) 6 March Simon Cadell, actor (born 1950) Douglas Jay, Baron Jay, politician (born 1907) 8 March – Jack Churchill, British Army officer (born 1906 in Hong Kong) 11 March – Sir Charles Oatley, physicist (born 1904) 15 March – Helen Chadwick, sculptor (born 1953) 18 March – Jacquetta Hawkes, prehistoric archaeologist (born 1910) 25 March – John Snagge, radio personality (born 1904) 4 April – Winifred Shotter, actress (born 1904) 6 April – Greer Garson, actress (born 1904) 8 April – Donald Adams, actor and opera singer (born 1928) 13 April – George Mackay Brown, Scottish poet and dramatist (born 1921) 18 April – Mike Leander, songwriter and record producer (born 1941) 20 April – Christopher Robin Milne, author and bookseller (born 1920) 23 April – P. L. Travers, novelist (Mary Poppins) (born 1899 in Australia) 25 April – John Lorne Campbell, Scottish historian (born 1906) 1 May – Eric Houghton, English footballer and manager (born 1910) 2 May – Peter Swales, businessman and football chairman (born 1932) 6 May – Wally Nightingale, guitarist (born 1956) 7 May – Albert Meltzer, anarchist writer (born 1920) 14 May – Vera Chapman, writer (born 1898) 19 May – Margaret Rawlings, actress (born 1906) 20 May – Jon Pertwee, actor (born 1919) 23 May – Patrick Cargill, actor (born 1918) 29 May – Jeremy Sinden, actor (born 1950) 2 June – Leon Garfield, children's author (born 1921) 3 June – Peter Glenville, actor and director (born 1913) 7 June – Percy Edwards, animal impersonator (born 1908) 15 June – Allenby Chilton, former footballer and football manager (born 1918) 19 June – Vivian Ellis, composer and lyricist (born 1903) 20 June – John Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir, peer (born 1911) 29 June – Pamela Mason, actress and screenwriter (born 1916) 1 July – Alfred Marks, actor and comedian (born 1921) 12 July – Walter Hassan, automotive engineer (born 1907) 17 July Chas Chandler, musician and record producer (born 1938) Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe, landscape architect (born 1900) 21 July – Wolfe Morris, actor (born 1925)