Deaths
- 20 January - Peter Adamson, actor (born 1929)
- 9 February - Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, sister of the Queen (born 1930)
- 16 February - Sir Walter Winterbottom, footballer and football manager (born 1913)
- 21 February - John Thaw, actor (born 1942)
- 27 February - Spike Milligan, comedian, writer and poet (born 1918)
- 4 March
- Claire Davenport, actress (born 1933)
- Eric Flynn, actor and singer (born 1939)
- c.21 March - Amanda Dowler, murder victim (born 1988); body found 18 September
- 26 March - Kenneth Wolstenholme, retired sports commentator (born 1920)
- 27 March - Dudley Moore, comedian and actor (born 1935)
- 30 March - Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, consort of George VI and mother of Elizabeth II (born 1900)
- 31 March - Barry Took, comedian, writer and television presenter (born 1928)
- 16 April - Billy Ayre, football coach, manager and former player (born 1952)
- 11 May - Diane Pretty, right-to-die campaigner (born 1958)
- 27 June - John Entwistle, bassist (The Who) (born 1944)
- 28 July - Archer John Porter Martin, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1910)
- 4 August -
- - Carmen Silvera, actress (born 1922)
- - Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman (both born 1991), victims of Soham Murders; bodies found 17 August
- 31 August - George Porter, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1920)
- 23 September - Vernon Corea, broadcaster (born 1927)
- 28 October - Thomas Patrick Russell, judge (born 1926)
- 2 November - Charles Sheffield, author and physicist (born 1935)
- 3 November - Lonnie Donegan, musician (King of Skiffle (born 1931)
- 15 November - Myra Hindley, Moors Murderer (born 1942)
- 18 December - Bert Millichip, former Football Association chairman (born 1914)
- 22 December - Joe Strummer, musician and singer (The Clash) (born 1952)
- 30 December - Mary Wesley, novelist (born 1912)
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“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)
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What we do is not beautiful
hurts no one makes no one desperate
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—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)