(b. 1916) Jet Harris, musician (The Shadows) (b. 1939) 19 March Raymond Garlick, poet (b. 1926) Leonard Webb, politician (b. 1921) 20 March – Johnny Pearson, composer and pianist (b. 1925) 22 March – George Alfred Walker, businessman, founder of Brent Walker (b. 1929) 23 March Frank Lampl, Czech-born businessman (b. 1926) Richard Leacock, film director (b. 1921) Elizabeth Taylor, actress (b. 1932) Fred Titmus, cricketer (b. 1932) 26 March – Diana Wynne Jones, English writer (b. 1934) 27 March – H. R. F. Keating, writer (b. 1926) 29 March – Robert Tear, operatic tenor (b. 1939) 31 March Ishbel MacAskill, Scottish Gaelic singer (b. 1941) Edward Stobart, haulage company owner (b. 1954) April 1 April Jane Gregory, Olympic equestrian (b. 1959) Brynle Williams, Welsh politician and activist (b. 1949) 3 April – Martin Horton, cricketer (b. 1934) 4 April John Niven, Scottish footballer (b. 1921) Craig Thomas, Welsh thriller writer (b. 1942) 6 April Johnny Morris, footballer (b. 1923) F. Gordon A. Stone, chemist (b. 1925) 7 April – Hugh FitzRoy, 11th Duke of Grafton, peer (b. 1919) 9 April – Nicholas Goodhart, rear-admiral and aviator (b. 1919) 10 April – Phil Solomon, music executive (b. 1924) 11 April Jimmy Briggs, footballer (b. 1937) Billy Gray, footballer (b. 1927) Simon Milton, politician (b. 1961) Doug Newlands, footballer (b. 1931) Angela Scoular, actress (b. 1945) 12 April Lee Bradley Brown, tourist (died in police custody) (b. 1971) Ronnie Coyle, footballer (b. 1964) 13 April – Danny Fiszman, businessman (b. 1945) 14 April – Trevor Bannister, actor (b. 1934) 17 April Bob Block, scriptwriter (b. 1921) Alan Haines, actor (b. 1924) Eddie Leadbeater, cricketer (b. 1927) Ken Taylor, scriptwriter (b. 1922) 18 April – Bob Plant, World War II soldier (b. 1915) 19 April Anne Blonstein, poet and translator (b. 1958) Lisa Head, soldier (killed in Afghanistan) (b. 1981) Elisabeth Sladen, actress (b. 1946) 20 April Allan Brown, footballer (b. 1926) Tim Hetherington, journalist (killed in the Libyan civil war) (b. 1970) Tul Bahadur Pun, Nepalese World War II soldier (b. 1923) 21 April Reginald C. Fuller, Roman Catholic priest and writer (b. 1908) W. J. Gruffydd, poet and former Archdruid of Wales (b. 1916) 23 April James Casey, comedian (b. 1922) Terence Longdon, actor (b. 1922) Geoffrey Russell, 4th Baron Ampthill, peer and businessman (b. 1921) John Sullivan, writer (b. 1946) 24 April – Denis Mahon, art historian (b. 1910)