Deaths
- 5 January – Mal Evans, Beatles' former roadie and patron of Badfinger (born 1935)
- 12 January – Agatha Christie, writer (born 1890)
- 13 January – Margaret Leighton, actress (born 1922)
- 11 February – Charlie Naughton, actor (born 1886)
- 12 February – John Lewis, Marxist philosopher (born 1889)
- 23 February – L. S. Lowry, artist (born 1887)
- 19 March – Paul Kossoff, guitarist (Free) (born 1950)
- 24 March – Bernard Montgomery, field marshal (born 1897)
- 22 April – Colin MacInnes, novelist (born 1914)
- 28 April – Richard Hughes, novelist (born 1900)
- 14 May – Keith Relf, musician (The Yardbirds) (born 1943)
- 9 June – Sybil Thorndike, actress (born 1882)
- 28 June – Sir Stanley Baker, actor (born 1928)
- 19 August – Alastair Sim, actor (born 1900)
- 30 August – David Rees-Williams, 1st Baron Ogmore, politician (born 1903)
- 14 October – Edith Evans, actress (born 1888)
- 4 December – Benjamin Britten, composer (born 1913)
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“This is the 184th Demonstration.
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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)
“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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“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)