Deaths
- February 16 - Aleksandar Tišma, Serb novelist
- February 26 - Quentin Keynes, bibliophile
- March 11 - Brian Cleeve, writer and broadcaster
- September 3 - Alan Dugan, poet
- March 12 - Howard Fast, American novelist
- April 7 - Cecile de Brunhoff, children's author
- June 21 - George Axelrod, dramatist and screenwriter
- June 21 - Leon Uris, novelist
- July 10 - Winston Graham, novelist
- July 16 - Carol Shields, novelist
- November 9 - Binod Bihari Verma, Maithili littérateur
- December 2 - Alan Davidson, food writer
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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)
“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)
“Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
—Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)