16 October Vincent Brome, writer (born 1910) Harold Perkin, social historian (born 1926) 18 October – Nancy Carline, artist (born 1909) 20 October – Lynda Lee-Potter, Daily Mail columnist (born 1935) 23 October – Bill Nicholson, footballer and football manager (born 1919) 25 October – John Peel, DJ and radio presenter (born 1939) 29 October Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, member of the Royal Family and last surviving aunt of The Queen (born 1901) Peter Twinn, mathematician, World War II codebreaker and entomologist (born 1916) 31 October – Roland Gibbs, head of the British Army from 1976 to 1979 (born 1921) November 1 November – James Hanson, Baron Hanson, industrialist (born 1922) 4 November – Robert Heaton, songwriter and drummer (New Model Army) (born 1961) 5 November – Basil McIvor, politician (born 1928) 6 November Fred Dibnah, steeplejack and television personality (born 1938) Robert Lang, actor (born 1934) 9 November – Emlyn Hughes, footballer, football manager and TV gameshow captain (born 1947) 13 November John Balance, English singer-songwriter (Coil) (born 1962) Keith Weller, footballer (born 1946) 14 November – David Stanley Evans, astronomer (born 1916) 19 November – John Robert Vane, pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1927) 22 November Reginald Coates, civil engineer (born 1920) Arthur Hopcraft, screenwriter (born 1932) 24 November – Janet Kear, ornithologist (born 1933) 25 November – Denis Richards, historian (born 1910) 26 November – C. Walter Hodges, writer, artist and Shakespearean scholar (born 1909) 27 November – John Dunn, radio presenter (born 1934) 28 November – Molly Weir, actress (born 1910) 30 November – Bill Brown, football goalkeeper (born 1931) December 2 December Kevin Coyne, singer and composer (born 1944) Alicia Markova, ballerina (born 1910) 6 December Frank Reginald Carey, World War II air ace (born 1912) Adrian Morris, artist (born 1929) 8 December – Leslie Scarman, Baron Scarman, judge (born 1911) 13 December – David Wheeler, computer scientist (born 1927) 14 December – Harry Bowcott, rugby union player and manager (born 1907) 15 December Harry Errington, only London firefighter to receive the George Cross in World War II (born 1910) Sidonie Goossens, harpist (born 1899) 17 December – Dick Heckstall-Smith, saxophonist (born 1934) 18 December – Anthony Sampson, writer and journalist (Mandela: The Authorised Biography) (born 1926) 23 December Richard Abel Smith, army officer (born 1933) John W. Duarte, composer and guitarist (born 1919) Ifor James, horn player