Deaths
- 3 January – Dustin Gee, comedian (born 1942)
- 4 January
- Phil Lynott, Irish singer and former Thin Lizzy frontman (born 1949)
- Christopher Isherwood, novelist (born 1904)
- 10 March – Ray Milland, actor (born 1907)
- 3 April – Peter Pears, tenor (born 1910)
- 29 April – Wallis, The Duchess of Windsor (born 1896)
- 23 April – Jim Laker, cricketer (born 1922)
- 8 May - Manny Shinwell, Baron Shinwell, former trade union official and Labour MP (born 1884)
- 25 June - Laurie Fishlock, former cricketer and footballer (born 1907)
- 18 July – Sir Stanley Rous, former president of FIFA and former secretary of the Football Association (born 1894)
- 31 August – Henry Moore, sculptor (born 1898)
- 18 September – Pat Phoenix, actress (born 1923)
- 5 October – James H. Wilkinson, mathematician (born 1919)
- 16 October – Ted Sagar, former footballer (born 1910)
- 28 October
- John Braine, novelist (born 1922)
- Ian Marter, actor and writer (born 1944)
- 29 November – Cary Grant, actor (born 1904)
- 22 December – David Penhaligon, Liberal MP (born 1944)
- 29 December – Harold Macmillan, former Prime Minister (born 1894)
- 31 December - Geoffrey John Audley Miles, senior Royal Navy admiral and veteran of both world wars (born 1890)
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)