Deaths
- 10 February - Grace Williams, composer, 70
- 26 March - Madeleine Dring, composer and actress (b. 1923)
- 13 June – Matthew Garber, former child star of Mary Poppins, 21 (pancreatitis)
- 16 September - Marc Bolan, singer-songwriter (car crash) (b. 1947)
- 11 October - Joseph Wheeler, musicologist (b. 1927)
- 14 November - Richard Addinsell, Warsaw Concerto composer (b. 1904)
- 25 December - Charlie Chaplin, actor and composer (b. 1889)
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