Deaths
- 9 January – Peter Tinniswood, 66, radio and TV comedy scriptwriter, and author
- 12 January – Maurice Gibb, 53, actor/songwriter of the Bee Gees.
- 13 March – Elisabeth Croft, actor play Edith Tatum in ATV soap Crossroads (soap opera).
- 22 March – Terry Lloyd, 50, news reporter, killed during Iraq War skirmish.
- 30 March – Gaby Rado, 48, news reporter, killed during Iraq War.
- 19 June – Laura Sadler, 22 Sandy Harper in Holby City after falling from a balcony.
- 24 August – Kent Walton, 86, television sports commentator and presenter
- 23 September –- Sarah Parkinson, 41, producer and writer of radio and television programmes
- 4 October – James Forlong, 44, dismissed Sky News journalist accused of faking Iraq War report, commits suicide.
- 29 December – Bob Monkhouse, 75, Comedian & Entertainer. (The Golden Shot, Bob's Your Uncle, Family Fortunes, Bob's Full House, Bury Your Hatchet, Opportunity Knocks, Celebrity Squares, Carnival Time, The Big Breakfast and Wipeout)
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“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)
“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)