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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