Deaths
- 8 February - Iris Murdoch, novelist and philosopher (born 1919)
- 6 March - Dennis Viollet, footballer (born 1933)
- 17 March - Rod Hull, entertainer (born 1935)
- 21 March - Ernie Wise, comedian (born 1925)
- 14 April - Anthony Newley, actor, singer and songwriter (born 1931)
- 26 April - Jill Dando, journalist and television presenter (murdered) (born 1961)
- 28 April - Sir Alf Ramsey, footballer and football manager, (born 1920)
- 2 May - Oliver Reed, actor (born 1938)
- 8 May - Dirk Bogarde, actor and author (born 1921)
- 1 June - Christopher Cockerell, inventor (born 1910)
- 8 June - Christina Foyle, bookshop owner (born 1911)
- 16 June - David Sutch ("Screaming Lord Sutch"), musician and founder of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party (born 1940)
- 12 July - Bill Owen, actor (born 1914)
- 5 September - Alan Clark, Conservative Member of Parliament and former government minister (born 1928)
- 11 November - Vivian Fuchs, explorer (born 1908)
- 19 December - Desmond Llewelyn, actor (born 1914)
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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)
“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
—Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)
“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)