Deaths
- 9 January – Dave Dee, singer (Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich), 67
- 14 January – Angela Morley, conductor and composer, 84
- 15 January - Jean Adebambo, singer, 46 (suicide)
- 29 January – John Martyn, singer/songwriter, 60
- 9 February – Vic Lewis, jazz guitarist, 89
- 19 February - Kelly Groucutt, bass guitarist (Electric Light Orchestra), 63
- 1 March – Joan Turner, singer and actress, 86
- 10 April - Richard Arnell, composer, 91
- 17 July – Gordon Waller, singer (Peter and Gordon), 64
- 7 October - Helen Watts, operatic contralto, 81
- 12 October - Ian Wallace, singer, 90
- 15 November – Derek B, rapper, 44
- 24 November - Amy Black, operatic mezzo-soprano, 36 (heart condition)
- 2 December – Eric Woolfson, musician (The Alan Parsons Project), 64
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“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.”
—Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)
“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)