Lang, actress and radio presenter (b. 1921) 3 April – Tia Rigg, murder victim (b. 1998) 4 April – Sir Alec Bedser, cricketer (b. 1918) 5 April – William Neill, poet (b. 1922) 6 April James Aubrey, actor (b. 1947, Austria) David Quayle, entrepreneur, co-founder of B&Q (b. 1936) Corin Redgrave, actor and political activist (b. 1939) Sid Storey, footballer (b. 1919) 7 April – Christopher Cazenove, actor (b. 1943) 8 April Mark Colville, 4th Viscount Colville of Culross, peer and judge (b. 1933) Antony Flew, philosopher (b. 1923) Malcolm McLaren, impresario and former Sex Pistols manager (b. 1946) 9 April John Griffiths, museum curator (b. 1952) Kenneth McKellar, tenor (b. 1927) Peter Ramsbotham, 3rd Viscount Soulbury, peer and diplomat, Governor of Bermuda (1977–1980) (b. 1919) 10 April – Sir Gordon Shattock, British veterinarian, Conservative politician and survivor of the Brighton hotel bombing (b. 1928) 11 April – John Batchelor, racing driver and politician (b. 1959) 12 April – Stuart Robbins, basketball player (b. 1976) 13 April – Gerald Stapleton, World War II air ace (b. 1920) 14 April Tom Ellis, politician (b. 1924) Greville Starkey, jockey (b. 1939) 16 April Bryn Knowelden, rugby league player (b. 1919) R. D. Middlebrook, electrical engineer (b. 1929) 18 April – Tom Fleming, actor (b. 1927) 21 April Sammy Baird, footballer and football manager (b. 1930) Sir Idwal Pugh, civil servant (b. 1918) 22 April – Peter B. Denyer, electronics engineer (b. 1953) 23 April Edward Lyons, politician (b. 1926) George Townshend, 7th Marquess Townshend, Britain's longest-serving peer (b. 1916) 24 April – Angus Maddison, economist (b. 1926) 25 April – Alan Sillitoe, writer (b. 1928) 27 April Peter Cheeseman, theatre director (b. 1932) Morris Pert, musician (b. 1947) 29 April – Sandy Douglas, computer scientist (b. 1921) 30 April – Antony Grey, gay rights activist (b. 1927) May 2 May – Lynn Redgrave, actress (b. 1943) 3 May Jimmy Gardner, actor (b. 1924) Peter O'Donnell, comic strip writer (b. 1920) 4 May – Peter Heathfield, trade unionist (b. 1929) 6 May – Dennis Sharp, architect (b. 1923) 7 May – Pamela Green, actress (b. 1929) 8 May – Alan Watkins, political journalist (b. 1933) 10 May Jack Birkett, dancer, singer, mime artist and actor (b. 1934) Charles Currey, Olympic sailor (b. 1916) 15 May – John Shepherd-Barron, inventor of the automatic teller machine (b. 1925) 16 May – Frank Dye, sailor (b.