Deaths
- January 6 - Fred Taylor, Hall of Fame coach of the 1960 National Champion Ohio State Buckeyes (born 1924)
- January 18 - Alex Hannum, Hall of Fame pro basketball coach (born 1923)
- June 3 - Cecil Hankins, NBA player (St. Louis Bombers, Boston Celtics) (born 1922)
- July 7 - Bison Dele, NBA player (born 1969)
- July 17 - Ubiratan Pereira Maciel, Hall of Fame Brazilian basketball player (born 1944)
- August 8 - Chick Hearn, television and radio announcer for the Los Angeles Lakers (born 1916)
- September 2 - Abe Lemons, Former college coach at Oklahoma City University and Texas (born 1922)
- September 14 - Jim Barnes, Former #1 overall NBA Draft pick and 1964 Olympic Gold medalist (born 1941)
- December 17 - Hank Luisetti, college basketball player and inventor of the layup; first player to score 50 points in a game (born 1916)
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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)
“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)
“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)