25 April John Cooke, RAF officer (b. 1922) Lawrence Lee, stained glass artist (Coventry Cathedral) (b. 1909) Poly Styrene, rock musician (b. 1957) 26 April Henry Leach, Admiral of the Fleet (b. 1923) Islwyn Morris, Welsh actor (b. 1920) 29 April – David Mason, trumpeter (b. 1926) 30 April Richard Holmes, military historian (b. 1946) Eddie Turnbull, footballer and football manager (b. 1923) May 1 May Sir Henry Cooper, boxer (b. 1934) Ted Lowe, snooker commentator (b. 1920) 2 May – Eddie Lewis, footballer (b. 1935) 4 May – Sammy McCrory, footballer (b. 1924) 5 May Leslie Audus, botanist (b. 1911) Claude Choules, Royal Navy seaman, last living World War I combat veteran (b. 1901) Dana Wynter, German-born actress (b. 1931) 6 May Sir Geoffrey Dhenin, air marshal and physician (b. 1918) Bill Hopkins, novelist (b. 1928) 7 May – Big George, musician and broadcaster (b. 1957) 8 May Wallace Clark, sailor and author (b. 1926) Ronald Waterhouse, judge (b. 1926) 9 May – David Cairns, Labour MP for Inverclyde (since 2005) (b. 1966) 10 May – David Weston, artist (b. 1935) 11 May – Elisabeth Svendsen, animal welfare advocate, founder of the Donkey Sanctuary (b. 1930) 12 May – Noreen Murray, molecular geneticist (b. 1935) 13 May – Bob Litherland, politician (b. 1930) 15 May – Martin Woodhouse, scriptwriter (b. 1932) 16 May Ralph Barker, writer (b. 1917) Edward Hardwicke, actor (b. 1932) 17 May – Frank Upton, footballer (b. 1934) 19 May – Kathy Kirby, singer (b. 1938) 20 May – William Elliott, Baron Elliott of Morpeth, politician and life peer (b. 1920) 21 May – Gordon McLennan, politician (b. 1924) 22 May – Suzanne Mizzi, Malta-born model, artist and interior designer (b. 1967) 24 May – Blair Stewart-Wilson, courtier (b. 1929) 25 May – Leonora Carrington, British-born Mexican artist (b. 1917) 27 May Janet Brown, comedian and impressionist (b. 1923) Michael Willoughby, 12th Baron Middleton, peer (b. 1921) 28 May Ann McPherson, physician (b. 1945) Dame Barbara Mills, barrister (b. 1940) 29 May Simon Brint, musician (b. 1950) Billy Crook, footballer (b. 1926) 31 May John Martin, Royal Navy officer (b. 1918) Hugh Stewart, film editor (b. 1910) Jennifer Worth, nurse and author (b. 1935) June 2 June Josephine Hart, Irish-born writer (b. 1942) Philip Rahtz, archaeologist (b. 1921) 3 June Pat Jackson, film director (b. 1916) Miriam Karlin, actress (b. 1925) Ray Pahl, sociologist (b. 1935)