Deaths
- 9 January – Dave Dee, singer (Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich), 67
- 14 January – Angela Morley, conductor and composer, 84
- 15 January - Jean Adebambo, singer, 46 (suicide)
- 29 January – John Martyn, singer/songwriter, 60
- 9 February – Vic Lewis, jazz guitarist, 89
- 19 February - Kelly Groucutt, bass guitarist (Electric Light Orchestra), 63
- 1 March – Joan Turner, singer and actress, 86
- 10 April - Richard Arnell, composer, 91
- 17 July – Gordon Waller, singer (Peter and Gordon), 64
- 7 October - Helen Watts, operatic contralto, 81
- 12 October - Ian Wallace, singer, 90
- 15 November – Derek B, rapper, 44
- 24 November - Amy Black, operatic mezzo-soprano, 36 (heart condition)
- 2 December – Eric Woolfson, musician (The Alan Parsons Project), 64
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“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)