Deaths
- 20 January - Gordon Macdonald MP, politician (born 1885)
- 27 January - Ronald Armstrong-Jones, barrister (born 1899)
- 18 February - Thomas Williams, 1st Baron Williams (born 1892)
- 8 March - Viscount Astor, politician (born 1907)
- 2 April - C.S. Forester, author (born 1899)
- 10 April - Evelyn Waugh, author (born 1903)
- 14 May - Megan Lloyd George MP, politician (born 1902)
- 22 May - Tom Goddard, cricketer (born 1900)
- 13 July - Princess Beatrice (born 1884), granddaughter of Queen Victoria.
- 26 October - Alma Cogan, singer (born 1932)
- 24 December - Sir Donald MacGillivray, last colonial governor of Malaya (born 1906)
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“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)