Deaths
- 1 May – David Webster, an academic at the University of the Witwatersrand and an anti-apartheid activist, was shot dead outside his home in Eleanor Street, Troyeville, Johannesburg
- 12 September – Anton Lubowski, advocate and secretary-general of the South West Africa People's Organization is shot dead outside his home in Windhoek, South West Africa
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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)
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“This is the 184th Demonstration.
...
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)