January 30th: Stanley Holloway (91), comedian and actor in films including My Fair Lady, This Happy Breed and Major Barbara.
February 16th:Vivion de Valera (71) (above), Fianna Fáil TD, barrister and Irish Press group managing director.
March 5th:John Belushi (33) (above), American comedian and actor.
March 18th:Paddy Smith (81), Fianna Fáil minister.
April 26th: Celia Johnson (73), British actor best known for Brief Encounter .
July 12th: Kenneth More (67), British actor who starred in films including Genevieve, A Night to Remember, The Thirty-Nine Steps and in the BBC's The Forsyte Saga.
August 12th:Henry Fonda, (77) (above) American actor.
August 24th:Eoghan Ó Tuairisc (63), Irish poet and writer.
October 5th: Séamus Ennis (63), uilleann piper, singer and folk-song collector.
November 18th: Hilton Edwards (79), actor, director and co-founder of the Gate Theatre in Dublin.