page_title: 2015 in the United Kingdom
section_title: October
hierarchical_section_title: 2015 in the United Kingdom / Deaths / October
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of Flight Lieutenant Michael Beetham taken in May 1944 whilst Beetham was serving on No. 50 Squadron RAF.
context_page_description: Events from the year 2015 in the United Kingdom.
context_section_description: 1 October
  Illtyd Harrington, 84, politician.
  Joe Wark, 67, footballer (Motherwell).
  2 October
  Brian Friel, 86, dramatist.
  Alex Giannini, 52, actor (Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Legend).
  Coleridge Goode, 100, jazz bassist.
  Arthur Lawson Johnston, 3rd Baron Luke, 82, peer and politician.
  Johnny Paton, 92, footballer (Brentford, Watford, Celtic), coach and manager (Arsenal 'A').
  Fred Ridgway, 92, cricketer (Kent, MCC, England).
  3 October
  Denis Healey, Lord Healey, 98, politician, Labour MP (1952–1992), Secretary of State for Defence (1964–1970), and Chancellor of the Exchequer (1974–1979).
  Christopher Tambling, 50–51, composer and choirmaster.
  4 October
  Jack McKee, 71, politician, Mayor of Larne (1984–1985).
  Sir John Severne, 90, Royal Air Force officer.
  5 October
  Joe Henson, 82, farmer and conservationist.
  Niall Rudd, 88, classical scholar.
  6 October – Trevor Lloyd, 91, rugby union player (Aberavon Quins, Maesteg).
  7 October
  W. R. Mitchell, 87, writer and editor (Dalesman).
  Clive Young, 67, Anglican prelate, Bishop of Dunwich (1999–2013).
  8 October
  Richard Davies, 89, actor.
  Jim Diamond, 64, singer-songwriter ("I Should Have Known Better").
  Dora Holzhandler, 87, painter.
  Hugh Scully, 72, television presenter (Antiques Roadshow).
  9 October
  Wil Handford, 24, mixed martial artist.
  Gordon Honeycombe, 79, newscaster, author and actor.
  Geoffrey Howe, Baron Howe of Aberavon, 88, politician, Conservative MP (1964–1992), Chancellor of the Exchequer (1979–1983) and Foreign Secretary (1983–1989).
  Julia Jones, 92, scriptwriter (Quiet as a Nun, Our Mutual Friend).
  10 October
  Kane Ashcroft, 29, footballer (York City).
  Sir David Penry-Davey, 73, jurist.
  Maggie Riley, 79, actress (Hazell, Grange Hill).
  11 October
  David Hunt, 55, racing driver.
  Carey Lander, 33, keyboard player and singer (Camera Obscura).
  Andrew Sayers, 58, curator, Director of the National Portrait Gallery of Australia (1998–2010).
  12 October
  Paul King, 63, manager (The Police, Dire Straits).
  Martin Lange, 71, football executive (Brentford).
  Alexei Likhtman, 44, mathematician.
  13 October
  Duncan Druce, 76, composer and musicologist.
  Sue Lloyd-Roberts, 62, television journalist (BBC, ITN).
  Michael J. H. Walsh, 88, Army general and Scouting leader, Chief Scout (1982–1988).
  Michael John Wise, 97, geographer.
  14 October
  Bobby Braithwaite, 78, footballer (Linfield, Middlesbrough, Northern Ireland).
  Sol Roper, 79, rugby league footballer (Workington Town).
  15 October – Stella Sutherland, 91, poet.
  16 October
  David Drew, 77, ballet dancer.
  Julia Wilson Dickson, 66, dialect coach (Braveheart, In Bruges, Chocolat).
  17 October
  Johnny Hamilton, 66, footballer (Hibernian, Rangers, St Johnstone)
  Howard Kendall, 69, football player and manager (Blackburn Rovers, Everton).
  Jacky Sutton, 50, journalist.
  18 October – Paul West, 85, novelist and poet.
  19 October
  Ron Greener, 81, footballer (Darlington).
  Patricia Kern, 88, mezzo-soprano and voice teacher.
  Dick Sharples, 88, scriptwriter.
  20 October
  Michael Meacher, 75, politician, MP for Oldham West (1970–1997) and Oldham West and Royton (1997–2015).
  Don Rendell, 89, jazz musician.
  Ian Steel, 87, cyclist.
  Jane Wardle, 64, clinical psychologist.
  21 October
  Peter Baldwin, 82, actor (Coronation Street).
  Francis Kiddle, 73, philatelist.
  Norman W. Moore, 92, conservationist.
  William Murray, 8th Earl of Mansfield and Mansfield, 85, nobleman and politician.
  Diana Pullein-Thompson, 90, writer.
  22 October
  Ted Ingram, 95, paperboy, certified world's oldest. (death announced on this date).
  Bryan Lowe, 89, cricketer (Cheshire).
  Joe Moss, 72, music manager (The Smiths, Johnny Marr).
  23 October
  John Bossy, 82, historian.
  Michel Couriard, 61, Jersey civil servant.
  Antony Hignell, 87, sportsman.
  Peter Price, 83, footballer (Ayr United, St Mirren).
  24 October
  John Adie, 69, festival promoter, co-founder of Two Moors Festival.
  Sir Michael Beetham, 92, air marshal, Chief of the Air Staff (1977–1982).
  Kirsty Howard, 20, fundraiser.
  25 October
  David Cesarani, 58, Jewish historian.
  Ken Graveney, 90, cricketer (Gloucestershire).
  Lisa Jardine, 70, early modern histo
caption: Sir Michael Beetham (1923–2015) in 1944, when he was a flight lieutenant
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