Bowel cancer, age 65. I really only came to know of him in the last couple years when some of his shows were shown on American public television, but I sure enjoyed the few I saw. Erudite and intolerant of fools in a fond way, and always with a glass of wine in hand.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/15/keith-floyd-british-tv-ch_n_286971.html