August 2 2014 in the United Kingdom

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drummer rod de ath



1 august

norman cornish, 94, artist.
rod de ath, 64, drummer (rory gallagher).
mike smith, 59, television , radio presenter (bbc radio 1).


2 august – sir alan peacock, 92, economist.
3 august

tony clunn, 68, army officer , archaeologist.
james mcclure, 88, politician, chairman of democratic unionist party.
charles simeons, 92, politician, mp luton (1970–1974).
david smail, 76, clinical psychologist.


5 august

chapman pincher, 100, journalist , historian.
ronnie stonham, 87, army officer , broadcasting adviser.


6 august

gabrielle blunt, 95, actress. (death announced on date)
frank shipway, 79, conductor.
jimmy walsh, 83, footballer.


7 august

michael kerrigan, 61, television director.
voytek, 89, television director , production designer.


8 august

ralph bryans, 72, motorcycle racer, grand prix world champion (1965).
charles keating, 72, emmy award-winning actor (all children, world).
j. j. murphy, 86, actor (mickybo , me, angela s ashes, dracula untold).
simon scott, 47, artist , musician.


10 august

peter chippindale, 69, newspaper journalist (the guardian) , author.
dame kathleen ollerenshaw, 101, mathematician , politician, lord mayor of manchester (1975–1976), mentor , advisor margaret thatcher.


11 august – dame julia polak, 75, pathologist.
13 august

laurence mee, 63, marine scientist, director of sams.
jean wilks, 97, educator, headmistress of king edward vi high school girls, president of hmc (1972–1974).


15 august

timothy cathcart, 20, rally driver.
ken hawley, 87, industrial historian.
dare wilson, 95, army general (sas).


16 august – andy macmillan, 85, architect
17 august

sammy conn, 52, footballer (airdrieonians, falkirk).
michael a. hoey, 79, producer, director , screenwriter.
nicholas russell, 6th earl russell, 45, aristocrat , disability rights campaigner.


18 august

sam galbraith, 68, politician, mp , msp strathkelvin , bearsden.
james alexander gordon, 78, radio broadcaster (bbc radio 5 live).


19 august

sam foster, 82, politician, mla fermanagh , south tyrone (1998–2003).
geoffrey leech, 78, linguist.
candida lycett green, 71, author.
tom pevsner, 87, film producer.
david st john thomas, 84, publisher , writer.


21 august

gerry anderson, 69, broadcaster (bbc northern ireland).
helen bamber, 89, psychotherapist.
don clark, 96, footballer (bristol city).
john macklin, 66, hispanist.
jean redpath, 77, folk singer-songwriter.


22 august

sir philip dowson, 90, architect.
peter hopkirk, 83, journalist , author (the great game).
alan reynolds, 88, painter.


24 august

richard attenborough, 90, actor, film director , film producer (gandhi, brighton rock, jurassic park, great escape)
alexander monteith currie, 86, university administrator.


26 august

simon featherstone, 56, diplomat, high commissioner malaysia (2010–2014), ambassador switzerland , liechtenstein (2004–2008).
caroline kellett, 54, fashion journalist.
sir douglas morpeth, 90, accountant.
jim petrie, 82, cartoonist (minnie minx).


27 august

bobby kinloch, 79, footballer (hibernian).
jimmy nesbitt, 79, police detective, investigated shankill butchers.
sandy wilson, 90, composer , lyricist (the boy friend).


28 august

glenn cornick, 67, bassist (jethro tull).
mary featherstonhaugh frampton, 86, civil servant.
alan reynolds, 88, artist.


29 august – sir jasper hollom, 96, banker, chief cashier of bank of england (1962–66), deputy governor of bank of england (1970-80).
30 august

andrew v. mclaglen, 94, film , television director.
sir david mitchell, 86, politician, mp basingstoke (1964–1983) , north west hampshire (1983–1997).


31 august

bobbie clarke, 74, british rock drummer.
john crosslé, 82, racecar driver , manufacturer (crosslé car company).
jonathan williams, 71, racing driver.








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