Deaths
- March 7 — Pee Wee King, 86, singer-songwriter (heart attack)
- March 14 — Tommy Collins, 69, singer and songwriter who helped create the Bakersfield Sound
- April 21 — Neal Matthews, Jr., 70, member of The Jordanaires (heart attack)
- November 5 — Jimmie Davis, 101, the "Singing Governor", two-term governor of Louisiana from 1944–1948 and again from 1960-1964 (natural causes)
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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)
“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)
“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)