Deaths
- 11 January - Michael Williams, actor (born 1935)
- 30 January - Johnnie Johnson, pilot (born 1915)
- 23 February - Marcus Sieff, Baron Sieff of Brimpton, businessman (born 1913)
- 27 February - Stan Cullis, former footballer and football manager (born 1915)
- 10 March - Michael Woodruff, surgeon and scientist (born 1911)
- 31 March - David Rocastle, former footballer (born 1967)
- 11 April - Harry Secombe, entertainer (born 1921)
- 26 April - Bryon Butler, sports journalist (born 1934)
- 12 May - Simon Raven, novelist (born 1927)
- 30 June - Joe Fagan, former footballer, football coach and football manager (born 1921)
- 17 June - Thomas Winning, Archbishop of Glasgow, (born 1925)
- 28 June - Joan Sims, actress (born 1930)
- 5 August - Aaron Flahavan, footballer (born 1975)
- 6 August - Dorothy Tutin, actress (born 1930)
- 19 August - Les Sealey, football coach and former footballer (born 1957)
- 20 August - Fred Hoyle, astronomer (born 1915)
- 12 October - Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, politician (born 1907)
- 15 October - Jamie Cann, politician (born 1946)
- 5 November - Roy Boulting, film director and producer (born 1913)
- 14 November - Charlotte Coleman, actress (born 1968)
- 23 November - Mary Whitehouse, TV campaigner (born 1910)
- 29 November - George Harrison, musician and film producer (born 1943)
- 7 December - David Astor, newspaper publisher (born 1912)
- 16 December - Stuart Adamson, guitarist, vocalist and songwriter (born 1958)
- 26 December - Nigel Hawthorne, actor (born 1929)
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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)
“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)
“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)