Deaths
- January 12 - Bobby Phills, Cleveland Cavaliers and Charlotte Hornets guard (born 1969)
- February 21 - Antonio Díaz-Miguel, Hall of Fame Spanish coach (born 1933)
- March 7 - Darrell Floyd, American college basketball player and national scoring champion (Furman)
- March 8 - Joe Mullaney, American college coach (Providence College) (born 1925)
- March 12 - Aleksandar Nikolić, Hall of Fame Serbian coach (born 1924)
- April 6 - Stan Watts, Hall of Fame college coach at Brigham Young University (born 1911)
- April 9 - Jack Gardner, Hall of Fame college coach at Kansas State and Utah (born 1910)
- May 5 - Bill Musselman, former ABA, NBA and college coach. The first head coach of the Minnesota Timberwolves franchise (born 1940)
- May 9 - John Nucatola, Hall of Fame college and professional referee (born 1907)
- May 20 - Malik Sealy, Minnesota Timberwolves guard (born 1970)
- June 9 - John "Brooms" Abramovic, First college player to score 2000+ points and early professional (born 1919)
- July 10 - Conrad McRae, former Syracuse forward who played in Europe (born 1971)
- August 25 - Leo Barnhorst, Two-time NBA All-Star with the Indianapolis Olympians (born 1924)
- September 13 - Duane Swanson, member of 1936 US Olympic championship team (born 1913)
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
—Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)
“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)