– Douglas John Foskett, librarian (born 1918) 9 May – Percy M. Young, composer and musicologist (born 1912) 10 May – Dennis Wilshaw, footballer (born 1926) 11 May – Danny McLennan, footballer and coach (born 1925) 14 May Anna Lee, actress (born 1913) Shaun Sutton, television executive (born 1919) 15 May – Clint Warwick, bassist (The Moody Blues) (born 1940) 16 May – Peter Hill-Norton, Baron Hill-Norton, Admiral of the Fleet (born 1915) 20 May – Len Murray, Baron Murray of Epping Forest, trade union leader (born 1922) 23 May Sally Gilmour, ballerina (born 1921) Adele Leigh, opera singer (born 1928) 27 May Jim Marshall, politician (born 1941) Ronald Smith, pianist (born 1922) 29 May – Jack Rosenthal, playwright (born 1931) June 3 June – Frances Shand Kydd, mother of Diana, Princess of Wales and grandmother of Princes William and Harry (born 1936) 5 June – Iona Brown, violinist and conductor (born 1941) 6 June – Judy Campbell, actress (born 1916) 7 June – Don Potter, sculptor and potter (born 1902) 12 June Stanley O'Toole, film producer (born 1939) Geoffrey Thompson, businessman (born 1936) 13 June – Stuart Hampshire, philosopher (born 1914) 15 June – J. Gwyn Griffiths, poet and Egyptologist (born 1911) 18 June – Frederick Jaeger, actor (born 1928, Germany) 19 June – Colin McCormack, actor (born 1941) 23 June – Doris Thompson, businesswoman, owner of Blackpool Pleasure Beach (born 1903) 26 June – Muriel Angelus, actress (born 1912) 27 June – Hugh B. Cave, science fiction writer (born 1910) 28 June – Anthony Buckeridge, writer (born 1912) July 1 July Peter Barnes, playwright and screenwriter (born 1931) Richard May, judge (born 1938) 3 July – John Barron, actor (born 1920) 5 July – Robert Burchfield, lexicographer (Oxford English Dictionary) (born 1923) 6 July – Peter Birks, academic lawyer (born 1941) 14 July – Arnold Ziff, businessman and philanthropist (born 1927) 16 July – Frank Farmer, physicist (born 1912) 17 July – Pat Roach, wrestler and actor (born 1937) 18 July – Paul Foot, journalist and nephew of former Labour Party leader Michael Foot (born 1937) 21 July – Julian Ridsdale, politician (born 1915) 23 July – Alan Cook, physicist (born 1922) 28 July Francis Crick, scientist, discoverer of the structure of DNA (born 1916) Margo McLennan, actress (born 1938) August 1 August – Laurence Stark, World War II flying ace (born 1920) 4 August – Robert Yewdall