Mark, police officer (b. 1917) October 1 October Ian Buxton, footballer and cricketer (b. 1938) Lan Wright, science fiction writer (b. 1923) 2 October Brenda Cowling, actress (b. 1925) Sam Lesser, journalist and Spanish Civil War veteran (b. 1915) Gillian Lowndes, ceramics sculptor (b. 1936) 3 October Philippa Foot, philosopher (b. 1920); granddaughter of Grover Cleveland Sir Louis Le Bailly, admiral and director-general of intelligence (b. 1915) 4 October Gordon Lewis, aeronautical engineer (b. 1924) Peter Warr, racing driver (b. 1938, Iran) Sir Norman Wisdom, actor (b. 1915) 5 October Roy Axe, car designer (b. 1937) Roy Ward Baker, film director (b. 1916) 8 October Reg King, singer-songwriter (b. 1945) Linda Norgrove, aid worker (killed in Afghanistan) (b. 1974) Neil Richardson, composer (b. 1930) 10 October Les Gibbard, political cartoonist (b. 1945, New Zealand) John Graysmark, production designer (b. 1935) Richard Lyon-Dalberg-Acton, 4th Baron Acton, peer and politician (b. 1941) Alison Stephens, mandolin player (b. 1970) 11 October – Claire Rayner, broadcaster and writer (b. 1931) 12 October – Austin Ardill, politician (b. 1917) 13 October Eddie Baily, footballer (b. 1925) Mary Malcolm, television journalist (b. 1918) 14 October – Simon MacCorkindale, actor (b. 1952) 15 October – Malcolm Allison, footballer and football manager (b. 1927) 18 October David Fontana, psychologist (b. 1934) Mel Hopkins, footballer (b. 1934) 19 October Graham Crowden, actor (b. 1922) John Waterlow, physiologist (b. 1916) 20 October Eva Ibbotson, novelist (b. 1925) D. Geraint James, doctor (b. 1922) Robert Paynter, cinematographer (b. 1928) Julian Roberts, librarian (b. 1930) 21 October – Howard Harry Rosenbrock, electrical engineer (b. 1920) 22 October – Bill Henderson, politician (b. 1924) 24 October – Andy Holmes, rower (b. 1959) 25 October – David Burgess, immigration lawyer (murdered) (b. 1947) 27 October – William Griffiths, field hockey player (b. 1922) 28 October Robert Dickie, boxer (b. 1964) Gerard Kelly, actor (b. 1959) Maurice Murphy, trumpeter (b. 1935) 29 October Ronnie Clayton, footballer (b. 1934) Geoffrey Crawley, journalist and editor (b. 1926) Mervyn Haisman, screenwriter (b. 1928) 30 October – John Benson, footballer (b. 1942) November 1 November Julia Clements, flower arranger and writer (b. 1906) Diana Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington, World War II intelligence officer (b. 1922) 5 November Rozsika Parker, psychotherapist and art historian (b. 1945) Martin Starkie, actor (b. 1922) 6 November – Peter Hilton, mathematician, discoverer of Hilton's theorem (b. 1923) 7 November – Chris Goudge, Olympic athlete