Deaths
- January 19 - James Dickey, poet, novelist
- February 3 - Bohumil Hrabal, author
- April 5 - Allen Ginsberg, poet
- August 2 - William S. Burroughs, novelist
- August 27 - Johannes Edfelt, poet, translator and critic
- October 14 - Harold Robbins, novelist
- October 16 - James A. Michener, novelist and historian
- November 6 - Leon Forrest, novelist and essayist
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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)
“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)
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)