Deaths
- January 9 - Bill Naughton, playwright and novelist
- February 10 - Alex Haley, Roots author
- February 16 - Angela Carter, author
- April 6 - Isaac Asimov, author
- April 21 - Väinö Linna, Finnish novelist
- April 28 - Iceberg Slim, novelist
- May 22 - Elizabeth David, cookery writer
- July 22 - Reginald Bretnor, science fiction writer
- September 5 - Fritz Reuter Leiber Jr., American writer of fantasy and science fiction
- November 7 - Richard Yates, American novelist and short-story writer
- December 25 - Monica Dickens, novelist
- December 27 - Kay Boyle, writer, educator, political activist
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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)
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“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)