Deaths
- May 14 - Walter Pitts (born 1923), American logician and cognitive psychologist.
- June 24 - Willy Ley (born 1906), German American scientific populariser.
- August 8 - Otmar von Verschuer (born 1896), German eugenicist.
- August 17 - Otto Stern (born 1888), German physicist, Nobel laureate in Physics in 1943.
- September 16 - Henry Fairfield Osborn, Jr. (born 1887), American conservationist.
- September 24 - Warren Sturgis McCulloch (born 1898), American neurophysiologist and cybernetician.
- October 21 - Wacław Sierpiński (born 1882), Polish mathematician.
- November 12 - William F. Friedman (born 1891), Russian American cryptanalyst.
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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)
“This is the 184th Demonstration.
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What we do is not beautiful
hurts no one makes no one desperate
we do not break the panes of safety glass
stretching between people on the street
and the deaths they hire.”
—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)