Deaths
- 6 February – Manchester United players in the Munich air disaster:
- Roger Byrne team captain (born 1929)
- Geoff Bent (born 1932)
- Eddie Colman (born 1936)
- Mark Jones (born 1933)
- David Pegg (born 1935)
- Tommy Taylor (born 1932)
- Liam Whelan (born 1935)
- Journalist Frank Swift (born 1913), former Manchester City and England goalkeeper
- 11 February – Ernest Jones, Welsh psychoanalyst (born 1879)
- 13 February – Christabel Pankhurst, English suffragette (born 1880)
- 21 February – Duncan Edwards, Manchester United footballer (born 1936)
- 26 March – Phil Mead, English cricketer (born 1887)
- 16 April – Rosalind Franklin, British crystallographer (born 1920)
- 19 April – Billy Meredith, Welsh footballer (born 1874)
- 3 May – Frank Foster, English cricketer (born 1889)
- 19 May – Ronald Colman, English actor (born 1891)
- 9 June – Robert Donat, English film and stage actor (born 1905)
- 13 June – Edwin Keppel Bennett, British writer (born 1887)
- 28 June – Alfred Noyes, English poet (born 1880)
- 20 July – Margaret Haig Thomas, Viscountess Rhondda, political campaigner and businesswoman (born 1883)
- 26 August – Ralph Vaughan Williams, British composer (born 1872)
- 25 September – Henry Arthur Evans, Welsh Conservative politician (born 1898)
- 2 October – Marie Stopes, birth control advocate, suffragette and palaeontologist (born 1880)
- 17 October – Charlie Townsend, English cricketer (born 1876)
- 24 October – G. E. Moore, British philosopher, author of Principia Ethica (born 1873)
- 30 October – Rose Macaulay, novelist (born 1881)
- 24 November – Lord Robert Cecil, English politician and diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (born 1864)
- 2 December – Alan McKibbin, Northern Irish politician (born 1892)
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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)
“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.”
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