Deaths
- 1 January - Alexis Korner, musician (born 1928)
- 10 March - Maurice Macmillan, Conservative Party MP and son of former prime minister Harold Macmillan (born 1921)
- 12 March - Arnold Ridley, playwright and actor (born 1896)
- 5 April - Arthur Travers Harris, Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of RAF Bomber Command during World War 2 (born 1892)
- 15 April
- Tommy Cooper, comedian and magician (born 1921)
- Alexander Trocchi, writer (born 1925)
- 4 May - Diana Dors, actress (born 1931)
- 19 May - John Betjeman, poet (born 1906)
- 28 May - Eric Morecambe, comedian (born 1926)
- 7 July - Flora Robson, actress (born 1902)
- 27 July - James Mason, actor (born 1909)
- 5 August - Richard Burton, actor (born 1925)
- 14 August - J. B. Priestley, writer and broadcaster (born 1894)
- 21 August - Bernard Youens, actor (born 1914)
- 5 October - Leonard Rossiter, actor (born 1926)
- 12 October - Anthony Berry, Member of Parliament (killed in the Brighton hotel bombing) (born 1925)
- 14 October - Martin Ryle, radio astronomer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (born 1918)
- 20 October - Paul Dirac, physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (born 1902)
- unknown - Jean Bain of Crathie, Aberdeenshire, last speaker of Deeside Gaelic (born Jean McDonald, 1890)
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“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)
“This is the 184th Demonstration.
...
What we do is not beautiful
hurts no one makes no one desperate
we do not break the panes of safety glass
stretching between people on the street
and the deaths they hire.”
—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)