1917) October 1 October David Bedford, composer (b. 1937) Georgina Cookson, actress (b. 1918) 5 October Graham Dilley, cricketer (b. 1959) Bert Jansch, guitarist (b. 1943) 6 October Alasdair Turner, computer scientist (b. 1969) Phil Walker, newspaper editor (b. 1944) 7 October George Baker, Bulgarian-born actor (b. 1931) Frederick Cardozo, World War II soldier (b. 1916) David Macey, translator and historian (b. 1949) 8 October – Dorothy Heathcote, academic (b. 1926) 9 October – Mark Kingston, actor (b. 1934) 11 October Adrian Cowell, film maker (b. 1934) Derrick Ward, footballer (b. 1934) 12 October – Peter Hammond, actor (b. 1923) 13 October – Sheila Allen, actress (b. 1932) 14 October – Adam Hunter, golfer (b. 1963) 15 October – Betty Driver, actress (b. 1920) 16 October Henry Bathurst, 8th Earl Bathurst, peer and politician (b. 1927) Antony Gardner, politician (b. 1927) Stanley Mitchell, translator (b. 1932) Caerwyn Roderick, politician (b. 1932) Dan Wheldon, racing driver (accident) (b. 1978) 18 October Bob Brunning, blues musician (b. 1943) Donald McCallum, industrialist (b. 1922) 20 October Sue Lloyd, actress (b. 1939) Peter Taylor, botanist (b. 1926) 21 October George Daniels, horologist (b. 1926) Digby Jacks, trade unionist (b. 1945) Edmundo Ros, Trinidadian-born singer, musician and bandleader (b. 1910) 23 October – John Makin, singer (b. 1950) 24 October – Alan Morgan, Anglican prelate (b. 1940) 25 October Shirley Becke, police officer, first woman police commander in Britain (b. 1917) Bernard Verdcourt, botanist (b. 1925) Norrie Woodhall, actress (b. 1905) 28 October Campbell Christie, former general secretary of the Scottish Trades Union Congress (b. 1937) Beryl Davis, big band singer and actress (b. 1924) 29 October – Sir Jimmy Savile, DJ and television presenter (b. 1926) 30 October – Cyril Parfitt, artist (b. 1914) 31 October – Mick Anglo, comic book writer and artist, creator of Marvelman (b. 1916) November 1 November – Richard Gordon, horror film producer (b. 1925) 3 November Timothy Raison, politician (b. 1929) John Young, politician (b. 1930) 5 November – Sir Gordon Higginson, academic and engineer (b. 1929) 6 November Gordon Beck, jazz pianist and composer (b. 1935) Philip Gould, Baron Gould of Brookwood, politician (b. 1950) 8 November Jimmy Adamson, footballer (b. 1929) Sean Cunningham, RAF flight lieutenant and Red Arrows pilot (b. 1976) Katherine Grant, 12th Countess of Dysart, peer (b. 1918) Sir David Jack, pharmacologist (b. 1924) 9 November Wilfred G. Lambert, archaeologist (b. 1926) Sir