Deaths
- 4 February - Alex Harvey, musician (born 1935)
- 21 March Harry H. Corbett, actor (born 1925)
- 31 March - Dave Clement, footballer (born 1948)
- 15 April - Arthur Lowe, actor (born 1915)
- 25 April - Celia Johnson, actress (born 1908)
- 1 May - William Primrose, violist (born 1903)
- 28 May - Lieutenant-Colonel Herbert Jones, Falklands War casualty and posthumous recipient of Victoria Cross (born 1940)
- 12 June - Ian McKay, Falklands War casualty and posthumous recipient of Victoria Cross (born 1953)
- 4 July - Terry Higgins, early British casualty of AIDS
- 12 July - Kenneth More, actor (born 1914)
- 5 September - Douglas Bader, World War II fighter pilot (born 1910)
- 20 October - Jimmy McGrory, former footballer (born 1904)
- 8 November - Jimmy Dickinson, former footballer (born 1925)
- 16 November - Arthur Askey, comedian (born 1900)
- 2 December - Marty Feldman, comedian and actor (born 1934)
- 16 December - Colin Chapman, automotive engineer (born 1928)
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“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
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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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“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.”
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