Deaths
- 9 January – Peter Tinniswood, 66, radio and TV comedy scriptwriter, and author
- 12 January – Maurice Gibb, 53, actor/songwriter of the Bee Gees.
- 13 March – Elisabeth Croft, actor play Edith Tatum in ATV soap Crossroads (soap opera).
- 22 March – Terry Lloyd, 50, news reporter, killed during Iraq War skirmish.
- 30 March – Gaby Rado, 48, news reporter, killed during Iraq War.
- 19 June – Laura Sadler, 22 Sandy Harper in Holby City after falling from a balcony.
- 24 August – Kent Walton, 86, television sports commentator and presenter
- 23 September –- Sarah Parkinson, 41, producer and writer of radio and television programmes
- 4 October – James Forlong, 44, dismissed Sky News journalist accused of faking Iraq War report, commits suicide.
- 29 December – Bob Monkhouse, 75, Comedian & Entertainer. (The Golden Shot, Bob's Your Uncle, Family Fortunes, Bob's Full House, Bury Your Hatchet, Opportunity Knocks, Celebrity Squares, Carnival Time, The Big Breakfast and Wipeout)
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“On almost the incendiary eve
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