Robin Mountfield, civil servant (b. 1939) 10 November – Alan Keen, politician, Labour MP for Feltham and Heston (since 1992) (b. 1937) 11 November – Michael Garrick, jazz pianist and composer (b. 1933) 12 November – Alun Evans, football administrator (b. 1942) 14 November Richard Douthwaite, economist and ecologist (b. 1942) Neil Heywood, businessman (murdered in Hong Kong) (b. 1970) Jackie Leven, musician (b. 1950) 15 November Dulcie Gray, Malaysian-born actress (b. 1915) John Hart, teacher, first male winner of Mastermind (b. 1936) 16 November – Maureen Swanson, actress (b. 1932) 17 November – Peter Reading, poet (b. 1946) 18 November Mark Blaug, Dutch-born economist (b. 1927) David Langdon, cartoonist (b. 1914) 19 November Basil D'Oliveira, South African-born cricketer (b. 1931) John Neville, British-born actor (b. 1925) 20 November Shelagh Delaney, writer (b. 1939) Malcolm Mackintosh, civil servant (b. 1921) 21 November Syd Cain, film production designer (b. 1918) Jim Lewis, Olympic footballer (b. 1927) 23 November Sir Peter Buchanan, admiral and Naval Secretary (b. 1925) Gerald Laing, pop artist and sculptor (b. 1936) 24 November Ross McManus, musician (b. 1927) David Seely, 4th Baron Mottistone, peer (b. 1920) Johnny Williams, footballer (b. 1935) 25 November – Hugh Burnett, television producer (b. 1924) 26 November Keef Hartley, drummer and bandleader (b. 1944) Patrick Mollison, haematologist (b. 1914) 27 November Gary Speed, footballer and manager (b. 1969) Ken Russell, film director (b. 1927) 28 November – Jon Driver, neuroscientist (b. 1962) 30 November – Peter Lunn, Alpine skier and spymaster (b. 1914) December 1 December – Eric Arnott, eye surgeon (b. 1929) 2 December – Christopher Logue, poet (b. 1926) 3 December – Dev Anand, Indian-born actor (b. 1923) 4 December – Allan Cameron, soldier and curler (b. 1917) 5 December Peter Gethin, racing driver (b. 1940) Celia Whitelaw, Viscountess Whitelaw, philanthropist and horticulturalist (b. 1917) 7 December – Peter Croker, footballer (b. 1921) 8 December Gilbert Adair, author (b. 1944) Peter Brown, footballer (b. 1934) Anthony Harbord-Hamond, 11th Baron Suffield, peer, soldier and politician (b. 1922) 9 December – Roy Tattersall, cricketer (b. 1922) 12 December – John Gardner, composer (b. 1917) 14 December Graham Booth, politician (b. 1940) Don Sharp, Australian-born film director (b. 1921) 15 December – Christopher Hitchens, author and journalist (b. 1949) 16 December Henry Kitchener, 3rd Earl Kitchener, soldier and peer, last holder of the title (b. 1919) Nicol Williamson, actor and singer (b. 1936)