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- 24 January - Michael Scott, architect (b.1905).
- January - Jackie Wright, comedian (b.1905).
- 11 March - Simon Curley, cricketer (b.1917).
- 7 April - Frank Cluskey, former leader of the Labour Party (b.1930).
- 15 June - Ray McAnally, actor (b.1926).
- July - Eddie Gannon, soccer player (b.1921).
- 3 August - Dominic Behan, songwriter, novelist and playwright (b.1928).
- 10 August - H. Montgomery Hyde, barrister, author and Ulster Unionist MP (b.1907).
- 12 September - Seamus Twomey, twice chief of staff of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (b.1919).
- 4 November - Vivian Mercier, literary critic (b.1919).
- 14 December - Gerry Healy, British Trotskyist leader (b.1913).
- 22 December - Samuel Beckett, Nobel Prize in Literature 1969, playwright, novelist and poet (b.1906).
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