page_title: 2016 in the United Kingdom
section_title: April
hierarchical_section_title: 2016 in the United Kingdom / Deaths / April
caption_attribution_description: Arnold Wesker at the Durham Book Festival, 24 October 2008
context_page_description: Events from the year 2016 in the United Kingdom.
context_section_description: 1 April
  Alan Carter, 86, civil servant, Director of Immigration of Hong Kong (1983–1989).
  Tony Whittaker, 81, solicitor and politician.
  2 April – Gareth Jones, 85, legal academic.
  3 April
  John Vane, 11th Baron Barnard, 92, nobleman.
  Martin Lampkin, 65, motorcycle trials rider.
  John Waite, 74, footballer (Grimsby).
  4 April
  Royston Nash, 82, conductor (D'Oyly Carte Opera Company).
  Ken Waterhouse, 85, footballer (Preston North End, Rotherham United).
  5 April
  Henry Hobhouse, 91, journalist and historian (Seeds of Change: Five Plants That Transformed Mankind).
  Mick Sullivan, 82, rugby league footballer (Wigan), world champion (1954, 1960).
  6 April – Sid Nathan, 93, boxer and referee (death reported on this date).
  7 April
  Adrian Greenwood, 42, art dealer and author.
  Rachel Johnson, 93, last native of the Scottish island of St Kilda (death reported on this date).
  Garry Jones, 65, footballer (Bolton Wanderers).
  Charles Thomas, 87, archaeologist.
  Ruth Westbrook, 85, cricket player and coach (England).
  8 April
  Mildred Gordon, 92, politician, MP for Bow and Poplar (1987–1997).
  Fred Middleton, 85, footballer (Lincoln City).
  David Swift, 85, actor (Drop the Dead Donkey).
  9 April
  Patrick (Paddy) J. O'Donnell, 68, academic.
  Martin Roberts, 48, rugby union player (Gloucester Rugby).
  10 April
  Howard Marks, 70, cannabis smuggler, writer and campaigner.
  Adrian St John, 22, cricketer.
  11 April
  Emile Ford, 78, singer (Emile Ford and the Checkmates).
  Nicholas Gargano, 81, boxer, Olympic bronze medallist (1956).
  Dame Marion Kettlewell, 102, naval officer, Director of the Wrens (1966–1970).
  12 April
  Alan Loveday, 88, violinist (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Academy of St Martin in the Fields).
  Sir Arnold Wesker, 83, playwright.
  13 April
  Srinivas Aravamudan, 54, academic.
  Steve Quinn, 64, rugby league player (York Wasps, Featherstone Rovers).
  Jock Scot, 64, poet and recording artist.
  Gareth Thomas, 71, actor (Blake's 7, Children of the Stones, Star Maidens).
  Gwyn Thomas, 79, poet and academic, National Poet of Wales (2006–2008).
  14 April
  David Collischon, 78, executive (Filofax).
  Martin Fitzmaurice, 75, darts personality.
  Ted Gundry, 81, radio broadcaster (BBC).
  Sir David MacKay, 48, author, scientist and professor (University of Cambridge).
  Phil Sayer, 62, voice artist ("Mind the gap").
  15 April
  Morag Siller, 46, actress (Emmerdale, Memphis Belle, Casualty).
  Guy Woolfenden, 78, composer and conductor.
  16 April
  Richard Smith, 84, painter.
  Kit West, 79, special effects artist (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Dragonheart, Return of the Jedi, Enemy at the Gates), Oscar winner (1982).
  18 April
  Adrian Berry, 4th Viscount Camrose, 78, peer and journalist.
  Barry Davies, 71, soldier and extractor of Lufthansa Flight 181 hostages.
  Karina Huff, 55, actress (The House of Clocks, Time for Loving, Voices from Beyond) and television personality.
  Sir John Leslie, 4th Baronet, 99, aristocrat and media personality.
  19 April
  Harry Elderfield, 72, geochemist and professor (University of Cambridge).
  Billy Redmayne, 25, motorcycle racer.
  20 April
  Cynthia Cooke, 96, nurse, Matron-in-Chief of the Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service (1973–1976).
  Guy Hamilton, 93, film director (James Bond, Battle of Britain, Evil Under the Sun).
  Avril Henry, 81, academic.
  Victoria Wood, 62, comedian and actress (New Faces, Victoria Wood As Seen on TV, dinnerladies).
  Jack Tafari, 69, activist.
  21 April – John Walton, Baron Walton of Detchant, 93, peer.
  22 April
  David Beresford, 68, journalist.
  John Lumsden, 55, footballer (Stoke City).
  Sir Denys Wilkinson, 93, nuclear physicist.
  23 April
  Patrick George, 92, painter.
  Sir Richard Parsons, 88, diplomat, Ambassador to Hungary, Spain and Sweden.
  Maurice Peston, Baron Peston, 85, peer, politician and economist.
  26 April – Mark Farmer, 53, actor (Grange Hill, Minder, Johnny Jarvis).
  27 April
  Harold Cohen, 87, computer artist (AARON).
  Angela Flanders, 88, perfumer.
  Herta Groves, 96, milliner.
  28 April
  Sir Edward Ashmore, 96, Royal Naval officer, First Sea Lord (1974–1977).
  Jenny Diski, 68, writer (Nothing Natural, Rainforest, London Review o
caption: Sir Arnold Wesker (1932–2016) at the Durham Book Festival in 2008
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