Deaths
- March 17 — Norm Mager, NBA player (Baltimore Bullets) and college champion (CCNY) (born 1926)
- April 18 — Clarence Gaines, Basketball Hall of Fame coach (born 1923)
- May 1 — George Mikan, Basketball Hall of Fame player (born 1924)
- August 25 — Teo Cruz, Puerto Rican player, BSN legend, five-time olympian (born 1942)
- August 16 — Aleksandr Gomelsky, Basketball Hall of Fame coach (born 1928)
- August 4 — Sue Gunter, women's coach for Louisiana State University for 22 seasons (born 1939)
- September 26 — Shawntinice Polk, Arizona Wildcats women's player (born 1983)
- October 15 — Jason Collier, Atlanta Hawks center (born 1977)
- November 23 — Nate Hawthorne, NBA player (Los Angeles Lakers, Phoenix Suns) (born 1951)
- December 27 — Giancarlo Primo, Italian coach and FIBA Hall of Fame member (born 1924)
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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)
“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)
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)