Deaths
- 15 February: Kevin Smith, actor.
- 22 February: Sir Raymond Firth, ethnologist.
- 14 March: Cherry Barbara Grimm, fantasy and science-fiction writer under the pseudonym Cherry Wilder.
- 28 May: Norman King, politician.
- 23 July: William Bell, cricketer.
- 24 August: Alan Brash, church leader.
- 3 October: Dalvanius Prime, entertainer.
- 31 October: David Henry Lewis, doctor, sailor and Polynesian scholar (in Queensland).
- 15 November J.J. Stewart, rugby coach.
- 29 December: Don Clarke, rugby player.
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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)
“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)
“This is the 184th Demonstration.
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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)