page_title: 2011 in the United Kingdom
section_title: October
hierarchical_section_title: 2011 in the United Kingdom / Deaths / October
caption_attribution_description: Bert Jansch performing at the Green Man FestivalIMG_2314
context_page_description: Events from the year 2011 in the United Kingdom.
context_section_description: 1 October
  David Bedford, composer (b. 1937)
  Georgina Cookson, actress (b. 1918)
  5 October
  Graham Dilley, cricketer (b. 1959)
  Bert Jansch, guitarist (b. 1943)
  6 October
  Alasdair Turner, computer scientist (b. 1969)
  Phil Walker, newspaper editor (b. 1944)
  7 October
  George Baker, Bulgarian-born actor (b. 1931)
  Frederick Cardozo, World War II soldier (b. 1916)
  David Macey, translator and historian (b. 1949)
  8 October – Dorothy Heathcote, academic (b. 1926)
  9 October – Mark Kingston, actor (b. 1934)
  11 October
  Adrian Cowell, film maker (b. 1934)
  Derrick Ward, footballer (b. 1934)
  12 October – Peter Hammond, actor (b. 1923)
  13 October – Sheila Allen, actress (b. 1932)
  14 October – Adam Hunter, golfer (b. 1963)
  15 October – Betty Driver, actress (b. 1920)
  16 October
  Henry Bathurst, 8th Earl Bathurst, peer and politician (b. 1927)
  Antony Gardner, politician (b. 1927)
  Stanley Mitchell, translator (b. 1932)
  Caerwyn Roderick, politician (b. 1932)
  Dan Wheldon, racing driver (accident) (b. 1978)
  18 October
  Bob Brunning, blues musician (b. 1943)
  Donald McCallum, industrialist (b. 1922)
  20 October
  Sue Lloyd, actress (b. 1939)
  Peter Taylor, botanist (b. 1926)
  21 October
  George Daniels, horologist (b. 1926)
  Digby Jacks, trade unionist (b. 1945)
  Edmundo Ros, Trinidadian-born singer, musician and bandleader (b. 1910)
  23 October – John Makin, singer (b. 1950)
  24 October – Alan Morgan, Anglican prelate (b. 1940)
  25 October
  Shirley Becke, police officer, first woman police commander in Britain (b. 1917)
  Bernard Verdcourt, botanist (b. 1925)
  Norrie Woodhall, actress (b. 1905)
  28 October
  Campbell Christie, former general secretary of the Scottish Trades Union Congress (b. 1937)
  Beryl Davis, big band singer and actress (b. 1924)
  29 October – Sir Jimmy Savile, DJ and television presenter (b. 1926)
  30 October – Cyril Parfitt, artist (b. 1914)
  31 October – Mick Anglo, comic book writer and artist, creator of Marvelman (b. 1916)
caption: Bert Jansch
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