20 August – Jon Egging, RAF flight lieutenant and Red Arrows pilot (crash at Bournemouth Air Festival) (b. 1978) 22 August – John Howard Davies, child screen actor and television comedy director (b. 1939) 23 August Clare Hodges, cannabis activist (b. 1957) David Lunn-Rockliffe, businessman (b. 1924) 25 August – Anne Sharp, opera singer (b. 1916) 26 August George Band, mountaineer (b. 1929) C. K. Barrett, theologian (b. 1917) John McAleese, soldier involved in the Iranian Embassy siege (b. 1949) 27 August John Parke, footballer (b. 1937) N. F. Simpson, playwright (b. 1919) 28 August Billy Drake, World War II fighter pilot (b. 1917) Len Ganley, snooker referee (b. 1943) Tony Sale, computer museum curator (b. 1931) 29 August John Bancroft, architect (b. 1923) Mark Ovendale, footballer (b. 1973) 31 August Dave Petrie, politician (b. 1946) Peter Twiss, test pilot (b. 1921) September 1 September – Mark Blackburn, numismatist (b. 1953) 6 September – Ted Longshaw, businessman (b. 1926) 7 September – Max Boisot, architect (b. 1943) 8 September – Sir Hilary Synnott, diplomat (b. 1945) 9 September Graham Collier, jazz bassist (b. 1937) Laurie Hughes, footballer (b. 1924) Herbert Lomas, poet (b. 1924) Peter Sneath, microbiologist (b. 1923) 11 September Douglas Allen, Baron Croham, civil servant and life peer (b. 1917) Ralph Gubbins, footballer (b. 1932) Andy Whitfield, actor (b. 1972) 13 September – Richard Hamilton, artist (b. 1922) 14 September – Frank Parkin, sociologist and novelist (b. 1931) 16 September Sir Brian Burnett, Royal Air Force Air Secretary (b. 1913) Sir William Hawthorne, aeronautical engineer (b. 1913) 17 September – Peter Wright, police officer, Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police (1983–1990) (b. 1929) 18 September – Paul Bach, journalist and editor (b. 1938) 19 September – Ginger McCain, horse trainer (b. 1930) 20 September Michael Jarvis, horse trainer (b. 1938) Robert Whitaker, photographer (b. 1939) 21 September – John Du Cann, rock guitarist (b. 1946) 22 September – Jonathan Cecil, actor (b. 1939) 23 September – Douglas Stuart, 20th Earl of Moray, peer (b. 1928) 24 September Emanuel Litvinoff, writer and activist (b. 1915) George Palliser, Battle of Britain air ace (b. 1919) 25 September – Gusty Spence, Ulster loyalist politician (b. 1933) 27 September – David Croft, television writer, director and producer (b. 1922) 28 September – Patrick Collinson, historian (b. 1929) 29 September – Iain Sproat, politician (b. 1938) 30 September – Arthur Norman, industrialist (b.