Deaths
- 9 January 9 – Elsie J. Oxenham, British children's novelist (born 1880)
- 12 January – Nevil Shute, English writer (born 1899)
- 8 February – J. L. Austin, British philosopher (born 1911)
- 20 February – Leonard Woolley, English archaeologist (born 1880)
- 29 February – Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma, last Vicereine of India (born 1901)
- 5 April – Peter Llewelyn-Davies, British soldier and inspiration for Peter Pan (born 1897)
- 8 May – J. H. C. Whitehead, British mathematician (born 1904)
- 7 June – Sir Maurice Bonham Carter, English Liberal politician and cricketer (born 1880)
- 27 June
- Harry Pollitt, British communist (born 1890)
- Lottie Dod, English tennis player (born 1871)
- 6 July – Aneurin Bevan, Welsh politician (born 1897)
- 27 September – Sylvia Pankhurst, British suffragette (born 1882)
- 30 September – St. John Philby, British explorer and spy (born 1885)
- 16 November – Gilbert Harding, radio and television personality (born 1907) (in an asthma attack outside Broadcasting House)
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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)
“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)
“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)