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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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“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)