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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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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.”
—Philip Caputo (b. 1941)
“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)
“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)