Deaths
Date | Name | Age | Broadcast credibility |
---|---|---|---|
1 January | Edmund Purdom | 84 | Actor |
11 January | David Vine | 73 | Sports presenter |
13 January | Patrick McGoohan | 80 | Actor (The Prisoner, Danger Man, Columbo) |
16 January | Sir John Mortimer | 85 | Barrister, writer, novelist and dramatist (Rumpole of the Bailey) |
18 January | Tony Hart | 83 | Children's TV presenter |
24 January | Diane Holland | 78 | Actress (Hi-De-Hi!) |
26 February | Wendy Richard | 65 | Actress (EastEnders, Are You Being Served?) |
14 March | Terence Edmond | 69 | Actor (Z-Cars) |
18 March | Natasha Richardson | 45 | Actress |
22 March | Jade Goody | 27 | Reality TV star (Big Brother) |
24 March | Timothy Brinton | 79 | British broadcaster and Conservative Party politician |
8 April | Lennie Bennett | 70 | Comedian and game show host (Punchlines) |
18 April | Stephanie Parker | 22 | Actress (Belonging) |
20 May | Lucy Gordon | 28 | Actress |
28 May | Terence Alexander | 86 | Actor |
31 May | Danny La Rue | 81 | Entertainer |
20 June | Colin Bean | 82 | Actor (Dad's Army) |
1 July | Mollie Sugden | 86 | Comedy actress (Are You Being Served?, Grace & Favour, The Liver Birds, Coronation Street) |
12 July | Donald MacCormick | 70 | Broadcast journalist and presenter (Newsnight) |
13 July | Vince Powell | 80 | Sitcom writer (Love Thy Neighbour) |
24 July | Harry Towb | 83 | Actor |
16 August | Laurie Rowley | 68 | Comedy writer (The Two Ronnies, Not the Nine O'Clock News) |
29 August | Simon Dee | 74 | Television interviewer and radio disc jockey |
13 September | Felix Bowness | 87 | Actor (Hi-de-Hi!) |
14 September | Keith Floyd | 65 | Chef (Saturday Kitchen) |
15 September | Troy Kennedy Martin | 77 | Screenwriter (Z-Cars, Edge of Darkness) |
16 September | Brian Barron | 69 | BBC journalist and war correspondent |
22 September | Peter Denyer | 62 | Actor (Please Sir!) |
30 September | Robert S. Baker | 87 | Producer (The Saint) |
16 November | Edward Woodward | 79 | Actor (Callan, The Equaliser) |
2 December | Maggie Jones | 75 | Actress (Coronation Street) |
24 December | George Cowling | 89 | Britain television's first weather presenter |
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
—Robert Frost (18741963)
“There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldiers sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
—Philip Caputo (b. 1941)
“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 deaththat is, they attempt suicidetwice as often as men, though men are more successful because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
—Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)