Deaths
- 20 January - Gordon Macdonald MP, politician (born 1885)
- 27 January - Ronald Armstrong-Jones, barrister (born 1899)
- 18 February - Thomas Williams, 1st Baron Williams (born 1892)
- 8 March - Viscount Astor, politician (born 1907)
- 2 April - C.S. Forester, author (born 1899)
- 10 April - Evelyn Waugh, author (born 1903)
- 14 May - Megan Lloyd George MP, politician (born 1902)
- 22 May - Tom Goddard, cricketer (born 1900)
- 13 July - Princess Beatrice (born 1884), granddaughter of Queen Victoria.
- 26 October - Alma Cogan, singer (born 1932)
- 24 December - Sir Donald MacGillivray, last colonial governor of Malaya (born 1906)
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