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This answers the title rather than the detail of the question, but the Labour leader John Smith's death in 1994 really affected me at the time.
I grew up with Labour parents under a Conservative Government and in John Smith I thought that finally Britain had a left wing statesman that the electorate would vote for. He was considered a man of integrity - decent and honest, and respected by politicians on both sides of the House.
I honestly went around for days feeling like it was all a cruel joke and someone, somewhere was laughing up their sleeve at those of us who felt we were living in a single party state. I suppose it affected me more than a celebrity death because he genuinely had the opportunity to make a difference to my life when he was alive.
In the end we only had to wait another 3 years, but even now it seems a shame that we lost the chance to have this man as our Prime Minister.
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