Beauty. Andrea Levy's novel Small Island David Mitchell's novel Cloud Atlas Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels A Hat Full of Sky and Going Postal. The Liberal Democrat tract The Orange Book: Reclaiming Liberalism edited by Paul Marshall and David Laws. Births 2 February – Shola Shoretire, English footballer 8 February – Hannah Moncur, Scottish actress 19 February – Millie Bobby Brown, actress and model 8 March – Kit Connor, actor 9 April – TommyInnit, internet personality 19 June – Millie Gibson, English actress 25 September – Prince Odysseas-Kimon of Greece and Denmark 9 November – Mohammad Sahil Saeed, kidnap victim 21 November – Jack Henderson, Scottish graphic artist and charity fundraiser 21 December – Estella Taylor, daughter of Lady Helen Taylor Deaths January 3 January – Lillian Beckwith, writer (born 1916) 4 January Joan Aiken, writer (born 1924) Brian Gibson, film director (born 1944) Jeff Nuttall, actor, poet, and painter (born 1933) 5 January – Norman Heatley, biologist and biochemist (born 1911) 6 January John Evans, footballer (born 1929) Reg Smith, footballer and football manager (born 1912) 11 January – Mervyn Pike, Baroness Pike, politician (born 1918) 13 January Tom Hurndall, political activist (murdered) (born 1981) Harold Shipman, serial killer (suicide) (born 1946) 21 January Kenneth Hubbard, RAF pilot (born 1920) John T. Lewis, Welsh physicist (born 1932) 26 January Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, artist (born 1912) Hugh Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Putney, politician (born 1908) 27 January Rikki Fulton, comedian and actor (born 1924) Hugh Scanlon, trade union leader (born 1913) 29 January M. M. Kaye, writer (born 1908) James Saunders, playwright (born 1925) 30 January – George Bennions, Battle of Britain Spitfire pilot (born 1913) February 1 February – Ally MacLeod, former manager of the Scotland national football team (born 1931) Bob Stokoe, former footballer and football manager (born 1930) 2 February – Alan Bullock, Baron Bullock, historian (born 1914) 4 February – William MacQuitty, film producer (born 1905) 5 February Nicholas Evans, artist (born 1907) Frances Partridge, writer and last surviving member of the Bloomsbury Group (born 1900) 6 February – Humphry Osmond, psychiatrist (born 1917) 7 February – Norman Thelwell, cartoonist (born 1923) 12 February – Martin Booth, poet (born 1944) 13 February – Peter Gellhorn, pianist and conductor (born 1912) 18 February – Ivor Stanbrook, politician and barrister (born 1924) 20 February Fred Brown, virologist (born 1925) Ted Paige, physicist (born 1930) 22 February – Colin Eaborn, molecular