Deaths
- 14 January
- Anthony Eden, former Prime Minister (born 1897)
- Peter Finch, actor (born 1912)
- 19 February – Anthony Crosland, Politician (born 1918)
- 26 March – Madeleine Dring, composer and actress (born 1923)
- 17 April – William Conway, cardinal (born 1913)
- 2 June – Stephen Boyd, actor (born 1931)
- 3 June – Archibald Vivian Hill, physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1886)
- 19 June – Lady Olave Baden–Powell, Chief Girl Guide (born 1889)
- 4 August – Lord Adrian, physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1889)
- 13 August – Henry Williamson, author (born 1895)
- 29 August – Edward Sinclair, actor (born 1914)
- 6 September – John Littlewood, mathematician (born 1885)
- 13 September – Leopold Stokowski, conductor (born 1882)
- 16 September – Marc Bolan, musician (born 1947)
- 30 November – Terence Rattigan, playwright (born 1911)
- 12 December – Clementine Churchill, widow of Winston Churchill (born 1885)
- 25 December – Charlie Chaplin, comedian (born 1889)
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