Deaths
- 30 January – Miles Kington, bassist, 66
- 28 February - Mike Smith, singer and producer (The Dave Clark Five), 64 (pneumonia)
- 12 March – Alun Hoddinott, composer, 78
- 23 March – Neil Aspinall, music industry executive, 66 (lung cancer)
- 29 March – Allan Ganley, jazz drummer, 77
- 15 April - Brian Davison, drummer (The Nice), 65
- 24 April - Tristram Cary, composer, 82
- 25 April – Humphrey Lyttelton, jazz musician and radio presenter, 86
- 29 April – Micky Waller, drummer, 66
- 17 May – Wilfrid Mellers, musicologist and composer, 94
- 28 May – Danny Moss, jazz saxophonist, 80
- 30 May - Campbell Burnap, jazz trombonist and broadcaster, 68 (cancer)
- 7 July – Hugh Mendl, record producer, 88
- 14 August – Lita Roza, singer, 82
- 7 September - Peter Glossop, opera singer, 80
- 10 September – Vernon Handley, conductor, 77
- 12 September - Marjorie Thomas, contralto, 85
- 15 September – Richard Wright, keyboardist (Pink Floyd), 65
- 10 October - Dave Wright (The Troggs), 64
- 11 October - Russ Hamilton, singer, 78
- 13 October – Gus Chambers, vocalist, 52
- 4 November - Alan Hazeldine, conductor and pianist, 60
- 12 November – Mitch Mitchell, drummer (The Jimi Hendrix Experience), 61
- 23 November – Richard Hickox, conductor, 60 (dissecting thoracic aneurysm)
- 24 November - Michael Lee, drummer (The Cult), 39 (epileptic seizure)
- 15 December - Davey Graham, guitarist, 68
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