Deaths
- 31 January - Robert McCartney, victim of murder allegedly carried out by members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (born 1971).
- 28 April - Mickey Marley, street entertainer
- 13 August - Robbie Millar, chef and restaurateur (born 1967).
- 19 August - Mo Mowlam, 11th British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
- 26 August - Gerry Fitt, founder of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (born 1926).
- 4 October - Jim Gray, former Ulster Defence Association leader in east Belfast (born 1958).
- 25 November - George Best, former Northern Ireland and Manchester United footballer (born 1946).
- 19 December - Charles Brett, lawyer, journalist, author and founding member of the Ulster Architectural Heritage Society (born 1928).
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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)
“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)
“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)