Deaths
- 2 February - Sid Vicious, musician (Sex Pistols) (drug overdose) (born 1957)
- 14 February - Reginald Maudling, politician (born 1917)
- 19 March - Richard Beckinsale, actor (born 1947)
- 23 March - Ted Anderson, footballer (born 1911)
- 30 March - Airey Neave, politician (assassinated) (born 1916)
- 8 June - Norman Hartnell, fashion designer (born 1901)
- 16 July - Alfred Deller, countertenor (born 1912)
- August - Ivon Hitchens, painter (born 1893)
- 8 August - Nicholas Monsarrat, novelist (born 1910)
- 11 August - James Gordon Farrell, novelist (born 1935)
- 27 August - Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, last Viceroy of India (assassinated) (born 1900)
- 27 September:
- Gracie Fields, singer and comedian (born 1898)
- Jimmy McCulloch, musician (born 1953)
- 10 October - Dr Christopher Evans, psychologist and computer scientist (born 1931)
- 13 October - Rebecca Helferich Clarke, composer and violist (born 1886)
- 30 October - Barnes Wallis, aeronautical engineer (born 1887)
- 23 November - Merle Oberon, actress (born 1911)
- 30 November - Joyce Grenfell, actress, comedian and singer-songwriter (born 1910)
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“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)
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)