Deaths
- January 7 — Ken Durrett, former NBA player and All-American at La Salle University (born 1948)
- January 26 — Al McGuire, Hall of Fame coach at Marquette and famed college basketball announcer (born 1928)
- February 19 — Guy Rodgers, Hall of Fame player for the Philadelphia and San Francisco Warriors (born 1935)
- February 20 — Harry Boykoff, former St. John's and early NBA player (born 1922)
- April 29 — Andy Phillip, Hall of Fame NBA player (born 1922)
- May 15 — Ralph Miller, Hall of Fame college coach at Wichita State, Iowa and Oregon State (born 1919)
- June 26 — George Senesky, NBA player and coach for the Philadelphia Warriors (born 1922)
- August 1 — Dwight Eddleman, All-American at Illinois and two-time NBA All-Star (born 1922)
- September 14 — George Ireland, coach of the 1963 NCAA national champion Loyola Ramblers (born 1913)
- October 20 — Nebojša Popović, Serbian player, coach and administrator and FIBA Hall of Fame member (born 1923)
- November 18 — Renato Righetto, Brazilian referee and FIBA Hall of Fame member (born 1921)
- November 23 — Gus Broberg, two-time All-American forward at Dartmouth College (born 1920)
- December 8 — Mirza Delibašić, FIBA Hall of Fame player from Bosnia and 1980 Olympic Gold Medalist (born 1954)
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“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)
“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)