Deaths
- 24 January - Patrick Hogan, Irish Labour Party, TD, Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann (born 1886).
- 30 March - James Foley, cricketer (born 1898).
- 1 April - Francis de Groot, upstaged New South Wales Premier Jack Lang at the 1932 official opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge (born 1888).
- 8 April - James Duffy, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1917 at Kereina Peak, Palestine (born 1889).
- 22 June - Thomas J. O'Connell, trade unionist, Irish Labour Party leader, TD and Senator (born 1882).
- 4 August - Stanley Bergin, cricketer (born 1926).
- September - Cecilia Thackaberry, Presentation Sisters nun, killed in Nigeria performing relief work (born 1909).
- 4 October - Cathal O'Shannon, politician, trade unionist and journalist (born 1893).
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“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)
“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)