Deaths
- 7 January – Frank Adams, mathematician (born 1930)
- 18 January – Bruce Chatwin, novelist and travel writer (born 1940)
- 27 January – Thomas Sopwith, aviation pioneer and yachtsman (born 1888)
- 22 February - Sir Raymond Gower, Conservative Party MP (born 1916)
- 6 March – Harry Andrews, actor (born 1911)
- 23 March - Robert McTaggart, Labour Party MP (born 1989)
- 1 April - George Robledo, Chilean-born, British-based footballer (born 1926)
- 12 April – Gerald Flood, actor (born 1927)
- 19 April – Daphne du Maurier, novelist (born 1907)
- 19 May – C.L.R. James, writer and journalist (born 1901)
- 20 May – John Hicks, economist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1904)
- 26 May – Don Revie, former footballer and former manager of Leeds United and the England national football team (born 1927)
- 27 June – Alfred Ayer, philosopher (born 1910)
- 1 July – Dora Gaitskell, widow of the late Labour Party leader Hugh Gaitskell (born 1901)
- 11 July – Lord Laurence Olivier, acclaimed actor, director and producer (born 1907)
- 15 July – Laurie Cunningham, English professional footballer based in Spain (born 1956)
- 29 August – Peter Scott, ornithologist, conservationist and painter (born 1909)
- 4 October – Graham Chapman, comedian (born 1941)
- 14 November – Jimmy Murphy, former footballer and football coach (born 1910)
- 5 December – John Pritchard, conductor (born 1921)
- 10 December - Sam Barkas, footballer (born 1910)
- 19 December – Stella Gibbons, novelist, journalist, poet and short-story writer (born 1902)
- 28 December – William Scott, Ulster Scots painter (born 1913)
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“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
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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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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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