Deaths
- 9 January 9 – Elsie J. Oxenham, British children's novelist (born 1880)
- 12 January – Nevil Shute, English writer (born 1899)
- 8 February – J. L. Austin, British philosopher (born 1911)
- 20 February – Leonard Woolley, English archaeologist (born 1880)
- 29 February – Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma, last Vicereine of India (born 1901)
- 5 April – Peter Llewelyn-Davies, British soldier and inspiration for Peter Pan (born 1897)
- 8 May – J. H. C. Whitehead, British mathematician (born 1904)
- 7 June – Sir Maurice Bonham Carter, English Liberal politician and cricketer (born 1880)
- 27 June
- Harry Pollitt, British communist (born 1890)
- Lottie Dod, English tennis player (born 1871)
- 6 July – Aneurin Bevan, Welsh politician (born 1897)
- 27 September – Sylvia Pankhurst, British suffragette (born 1882)
- 30 September – St. John Philby, British explorer and spy (born 1885)
- 16 November – Gilbert Harding, radio and television personality (born 1907) (in an asthma attack outside Broadcasting House)
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
—Philip Caputo (b. 1941)
“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)