Deaths
- 8 February - Iris Murdoch, novelist and philosopher (born 1919)
- 6 March - Dennis Viollet, footballer (born 1933)
- 17 March - Rod Hull, entertainer (born 1935)
- 21 March - Ernie Wise, comedian (born 1925)
- 14 April - Anthony Newley, actor, singer and songwriter (born 1931)
- 26 April - Jill Dando, journalist and television presenter (murdered) (born 1961)
- 28 April - Sir Alf Ramsey, footballer and football manager, (born 1920)
- 2 May - Oliver Reed, actor (born 1938)
- 8 May - Dirk Bogarde, actor and author (born 1921)
- 1 June - Christopher Cockerell, inventor (born 1910)
- 8 June - Christina Foyle, bookshop owner (born 1911)
- 16 June - David Sutch ("Screaming Lord Sutch"), musician and founder of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party (born 1940)
- 12 July - Bill Owen, actor (born 1914)
- 5 September - Alan Clark, Conservative Member of Parliament and former government minister (born 1928)
- 11 November - Vivian Fuchs, explorer (born 1908)
- 19 December - Desmond Llewelyn, actor (born 1914)
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“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)