Deaths
- February 3 – Robert Duncan, poet
- February 28 – Kylie Tennant, Australian novelist, playwright and historian
- March – Máirtín Ó Direáin, Irish language poet
- April 12 – Alan Paton, novelist
- April 21 – I. A. L. Diamond, comedy writer
- May 8 – Robert A. Heinlein, science fiction author
- June 10 – Louis L'Amour, western novelist
- July 12 – Joshua Logan, stage and film writer
- August 28 – Max Shulman, novelist, short-story writer and dramatist
- September 28 – Charles Addams, American cartoonist
- October 1 – Sacheverell Sitwell, art critic, brother of Edith Sitwell and Osbert Sitwell
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- Unknown date
- Frank Bonham, American western and young adult novelist
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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
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—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)