Deaths
- 24 January - Michael Scott, architect (born 1905).
- 27 January - Dónall Mac Amhlaigh, writer (born 1926).
- January - Jackie Wright, comedian (born 1905).
- 11 March - Simon Curley, cricketer (born 1917).
- 7 April - Frank Cluskey, former leader of the Labour Party (born 1930).
- 15 June - Ray McAnally, actor (born 1926).
- July - Eddie Gannon, soccer player (born 1921).
- 3 August - Dominic Behan, songwriter, novelist and playwright (born 1928).
- 10 August - H. Montgomery Hyde, barrister, author and Ulster Unionist MP (born 1907).
- 12 September - Seamus Twomey, twice chief of staff of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (born 1919).
- 4 November - Vivian Mercier, literary critic (born 1919).
- 14 December - Gerry Healy, British Trotskyist leader (born 1913).
- 22 December - Samuel Beckett, Nobel Prize in Literature 1969, playwright, novelist and poet (born 1906).
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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)
“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)
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)