Deaths
- 3 January – Princess Alice, daughter of Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany; and the longest living grandchild of Queen Victoria (born 1883)
- 6 January – A. J. Cronin, Scottish novelist (born 1896)
- 11 February – Franz Sondheimer, German-born British-Israeli chemist.(born 1926)
- 6 March – George Geary, English cricketer (born 1893)
- 11 March – Maurice Oldfield, intelligence chief (born 1915)
- 16 April- Marquess oc Cambridge (born 1895)
- 5 May – Bobby Sands, IRA member and MP (born 1954)
- 9 May – Ralph Allen, footballer (born 1906)
- 17 June – Sir Richard O'Connor, British General in WWII (born 1889)
- 8 September – Bill Shankly, Scottish football manager (born 1913)
- 22 November – Sir Hans Adolf Krebs, German-born British physician and biochemist and Nobel laureate (born 1900)
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
—Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)
“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)
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)