Deaths
- 12 February - Bhakti Barve, actress (born 1948).
- 13 May - R.K. Narayan, novelist (born 1906).
- 21 July - Sivaji Ganesan, actor (born 1927).
- 25 July - Phoolan Devi, bandit turned politician, assassinated (born 1963).
- 28 October - Pradeep Kumar, actor (born 1925).
- 5 December - Dharam Singh, field hockey player (born 1919).
- 10 December - Ashok Kumar, actor (born 1911).
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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)
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)