Deaths
- January 4 – Albert Camus, novelist, 46 (car accident)
- January 12 – Nevil Shute, novelist, 60 (stroke)
- January 14 – Ralph Chubb, poet, printer and artist, 67
- January 28 – Zora Neale Hurston, African-American folklorist, anthropologist, and author, 69
- May 30 – Boris Pasternak, novelist, poet and translator, 70
- August 29 - Vicki Baum, Austrian novelist, 72
- November 20 - Ya'akov Cohen, Israeli poet, 79
- November 28 – Richard Wright, controversial African-American writer, 52 (heart attack)
- December 26 - Tetsuro Watsuji, Japanese philosopher, 71
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“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)