Deaths
- 5 January – Mal Evans, Beatles' former roadie and patron of Badfinger (born 1935)
- 12 January – Agatha Christie, writer (born 1890)
- 13 January – Margaret Leighton, actress (born 1922)
- 11 February – Charlie Naughton, actor (born 1886)
- 12 February – John Lewis, Marxist philosopher (born 1889)
- 23 February – L. S. Lowry, artist (born 1887)
- 19 March – Paul Kossoff, guitarist (Free) (born 1950)
- 24 March – Bernard Montgomery, field marshal (born 1897)
- 22 April – Colin MacInnes, novelist (born 1914)
- 28 April – Richard Hughes, novelist (born 1900)
- 14 May – Keith Relf, musician (The Yardbirds) (born 1943)
- 9 June – Sybil Thorndike, actress (born 1882)
- 28 June – Sir Stanley Baker, actor (born 1928)
- 19 August – Alastair Sim, actor (born 1900)
- 30 August – David Rees-Williams, 1st Baron Ogmore, politician (born 1903)
- 14 October – Edith Evans, actress (born 1888)
- 4 December – Benjamin Britten, composer (born 1913)
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“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)
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