Deaths
- 8 February – Robert Robinson, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1886)
- 14 February
- Julian Huxley, biologist (born 1887)
- P. G. Wodehouse, writer (born 1881)
- 26 February – Stephen Tibble, London police officer (shot) (born 1953)
- 3 March – T. H. Parry–Williams, poet (born 1887)
- 3 April – Mary Ure, actress (born 1933)
- 23 April – William Hartnell, actor (born 1908)
- 24 April – Pete Ham, musician (born 1947)
- 20 May – Barbara Hepworth, sculptor (born 1903)
- 21 May – A. H. Dodd, historian (born 1891)
- 7 August – Jim Griffiths, politician (born 1890)
- 10 September – George Paget Thomson, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1892)
- 25 November – Moyna Macgill, actress (born 1895)
- 27 November – Ross McWhirter, co–founder of the Guinness Book of Records (born 1925)
- 29 November
- Tony Brise, racing driver (born 1952)
- Graham Hill, race car driver (born 1929)
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“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)
“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
—Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)