Deaths
- February 6 – James Hadley Chase, novelist
- March 15 – Radha Krishna Choudhary, Indian historian and writer
- April 7 – Carl Schmitt, political theorist
- July 16 – Heinrich Böll, German writer, Nobel laureate
- August 14 – Alfred Hayes, novelist and poet
- August 30 – Taylor Caldwell, novelist
- October 24 – László Bíró, inventor of the ballpoint pen
- November 3 – John Michael Wallace-Hadrill, historian
- November 25 – Geoffrey Grigson, poet and critic
- December 7 – Robert Graves
- date unknown
- Hedley Bull, economist
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
—Philip Caputo (b. 1941)
“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)