Warner, engineer (b. 1910) 5 July David Fanshawe, composer (b. 1942) Pete Morgan, poet (b. 1919) Elton Younger, Army major-general (b. 1919) 6 July – Roy Waller, radio presenter (b. 1940) 8 July – John Moore, Royal Navy officer and writer (b. 1921) 9 July Mark Bytheway, Quizzing World Champion (2008) (b. 1963) Basil Davidson, historian (b. 1914) Marrack Goulding, diplomat (b. 1936) 10 July David Gay, Army major and cricketer (b. 1920) Leonard Hemming, cricketer (b. 1916) 12 July – James P. Hogan, science fiction writer (b. 1941) 13 July Ken Barnes, footballer (b. 1929) Alan Hume, cinematographer (b. 1924) 16 July – Verily Anderson, author and biographer (b. 1915) 17 July – Sir Simon Hornby, businessman (b. 1934) 18 July – Mary Brancker veterinary surgeon (b. 1914) 20 July Iris Gower, writer (b. 1935) Robin McLaren, diplomat (b. 1934) 21 July Edna Healey, writer and filmmaker (b. 1918); wife of Denis Healey Anthony Rolfe Johnson, opera singer (b. 1940) 24 July – Alex Higgins, snooker player (b. 1949) 26 July – Eric Hill, cricketer (b. 1923) 28 July – Ivy Bean, centenarian (b. 1905) 29 July – Carl Dooler, rugby league player (b. 1943) 31 July – John Gorst, politician (b. 1928) August 3 August – James L. Gray, engineer (b. 1926) 6 August Julian Besag, statistician (b. 1945) Tony Judt, historian (b. 1948) John Louis Mansi, actor (b. 1926) 7 August – John Nelder, statistician (b. 1924) 8 August Alan Myers, translator (b. 1933) Jack Parnell, musician and bandleader (b. 1923) 9 August – Robin Warwick Gibson, art historian (b. 1944) 10 August Jimmy Reid, trade union activist (b. 1932) Adam Stansfield, footballer (b. 1978) 11 August Gretel Beer, cookery writer (b. 1921, Austria) Geoffrey Johnson-Smith, politician (b. 1924) James Mourilyan Tanner, paediatrician (b. 1920) 12 August Laurence Gardner, author and lecturer (b. 1943) Andrew Roth, biographer and journalist (b. 1919) 13 August – Albert Frost, businessman (b. 1914) 14 August – Mervyn Alexander, Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1925) 15 August - Paul Briscoe, schoolteacher and writer (b. 1930) 16 August – Christopher Freeman, economist (b. 1921) 17 August John Amyas Alexander, archaeologist (b. 1922) Bill Millin, bagpiper at the D-Day Normandy landings (b. 1922) Edwin Morgan, poet (b. 1920) 20 August – Carys Bannister, neurosurgeon (b. 1935) 21 August – Peter Gwynn-Jones, herald, Garter Principal King of Arms (b. 1940) 22 August Raymond Hawkey, graphic designer