Deaths
- 10 February - Grace Williams, composer, 70
- 26 March - Madeleine Dring, composer and actress (b. 1923)
- 13 June – Matthew Garber, former child star of Mary Poppins, 21 (pancreatitis)
- 16 September - Marc Bolan, singer-songwriter (car crash) (b. 1947)
- 11 October - Joseph Wheeler, musicologist (b. 1927)
- 14 November - Richard Addinsell, Warsaw Concerto composer (b. 1904)
- 25 December - Charlie Chaplin, actor and composer (b. 1889)
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“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)
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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
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—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)