Deaths
- 11 January - Barbara Pym, novelist (born 1913)
- 18 January - Sir Cecil Beaton, photographer (born 1904)
- 17 February - Graham Sutherland, artist (born 1903)
- 1 March - Dixie Dean, football player (born 1907)
- 29 April - Alfred Hitchcock, film director (born 1899)
- 14 May - Hugh Griffith, actor (born 1912)
- 18 May - Ian Curtis, musician and singer (Joy Division) (born 1956)
- 7 June - Elizabeth Craig, writer (born 1883)
- 12 June - Billy Butlin, founder of Butlins (born 1899, South Africa)
- 23 June - John Laurie, actor (born 1897)
- 1 July - C. P. Snow, novelist and physicist (born 1905)
- 24 July - Peter Sellers, actor (born 1925)
- 26 July - Kenneth Tynan, theatre critic (born 1927)
- 24 August - Yootha Joyce, actress (born 1927)
- 25 September - John Bonham, drummer (Led Zeppelin) (born 1948)
- 6 October - Hattie Jacques, Carry On films actress (heart attack) (born 1922)
- 4 November - Johnny Owen, boxer (born 1956)
- 22 November - Norah McGuinness, painter and illustrator (born 1901)
- 26 November - Rachel Roberts, actress (suicide) (born 1927)
- 3 December - Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists (born 1896)
- 8 December - John Lennon, singer, songwriter, and guitarist (The Beatles) (murdered) (born 1940)
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