Deaths
- 8 February - Enoch Powell, politician (born 1912)
- 16 March - Derek Harold Richard Barton, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918)
- 5 April - Cozy Powell, rock musician (born 1947)
- 11 April - Francis Durbridge, playwright and author (born 1912)
- 16 April - Fred Davis, snooker and billiards player (born 1913)
- 2 May -
- - Kevin Lloyd, actor (born 1949)
- - Justin Fashanu, former footballer (born 1961)
- 10 June - Hammond Innes, author (born 1914)
- 11 June - Catherine Cookson, author (born 1906)
- 13 June - Reg Smythe, cartoonist (born 1917)
- 18 July - Betty Marsden, comedy actress (born 1919)
- 2 September - Jackie Blanchflower, footballer (born 1933)
- 3 October - Roddy McDowall, actor (born 1928)
- 17 October - Joan Hickson, actress (born 1906)
- 22 October - Eric Ambler, novelist and playwright (born 1909)
- 28 October - Ted Hughes, poet and children's writer (born 1930)
- December - Brian Stonehouse, painter and World War II secret agent (born 1918)
- 7 December - Michael Craze, actor (born 1942)
- 13 December - Lew Grade, showbusiness impresario and television company executive (born 1906, Ukraine)
- 20 December - Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1914)
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