(b. 1935) 9 November Elizabeth Carnegy, Baroness Carnegy of Lour, academic and life peer (b. 1925) Robin Day, furniture designer (b. 1915) 10 November – Jim Farry, football executive (b. 1954) 13 November – Norman Dennis, sociologist (b. 1929) 14 November – Vince Broderick, cricketer (b. 1920) 18 November Jim Cruickshank, footballer (b. 1941) Brian G. Marsden, astronomer (b. 1937) 19 November – Byron Duckenfield, RAF fighter pilot and Battle of Britain veteran (b. 1917) 20 November – Jim Yardley, cricketer (b. 1946) 23 November Joyce Howard, actress (b. 1932) Ingrid Pitt, actress (b. 1937, Poland) 24 November – Michael Samuels, linguist (b. 1920) 25 November Peter Christopherson, musician (b. 1955) Bernard Matthews, businessman (b. 1930) Colin Slee, Anglican prelate, Dean of Southwark Cathedral (b. 1945) 26 November – Gavin Blyth, producer (b. 1969) 29 November David Fleming, environmental writer (b. 1940) John Mantle, Scottish Episcopal bishop (b. 1946) Sir Maurice Wilkes, computer scientist (b. 1913) 30 November Robert Potter, church architect (b. 1909) Monty Sunshine, clarinetist (b. 1928) December 3 December – Donald Pass, painter (b. 1930) 6 December – Tom Crowe, radio presenter (b. 1922, Ireland) 7 December Peter Andry, record producer (b. 1927) John E. Baldwin, astronomer (b. 1931) 8 December – Trev Thoms, guitarist (b. 1950) 12 December Lachhiman Gurung VC, Gurkha soldier (b. 1917, Nepal) Helen Roberts, actress and singer (b. 1912) Tom Walkinshaw, racing driver and team owner (b. 1946) 14 December – Dale Roberts, footballer (b. 1986) 16 December – Richard Adeney, flautist (b. 1920) 17 December Ralph Coates, footballer (b. 1946) Dick Gibson, racing driver (b. 1918) 18 December Gerard Mansell, BBC executive (b. 1921) James Pickles, judge and tabloid columnist (b. 1925) 19 December Anthony Howard, journalist and broadcaster (b. 1934) Roy Romain, Olympic swimmer (b. 1918) 20 December John Alldis, chorus-master and conductor (b. 1929) Brian Hanrahan, journalist and broadcaster (b. 1949) 21 December David Hennessy, 3rd Baron Windlesham, peer and politician (b. 1932) Bertie Lewis, World War II airman and peace campaigner (b. 1920) 22 December David Cockayne, physicist (b. 1942) John Macreadie, trade unionist (b. 1946) 23 December – Jayaben Desai, trade union leader (b. 1933, India) 24 December – Elisabeth Beresford, author, creator of the Wombles (b. 1926) 25 December – Sir Iain Noble, banker and Gaelic activist (b. 1935) 26 December Bill Jones, footballer (b. 1921) Ian Samuel, RAF pilot and diplomat (b. 1915) 27 December