Deaths
- February 11 — Harry Vines, American wheelchair basketball coach (born 1938)
- March 17 — Ray Meyer Hall of Fame coach of the DePaul University men's team (born 1913)
- April 30 — Harold "Bunny" Levitt, player for the Harlem Globetrotters who once sank 499 consecutive free throws
- April 28 — Ron Mather, Scottish coach
- April 6 — Maggie Dixon, women's coach at Army (born 1977)
- May 6 — Bob Dro, national champion at Indiana and Indianapolis Kautskys player (born 1918)
- May 9 — Grady Wallace, All-American and national scoring champion at South Carolina
- July 3 — Dick Dickey, NBA player and All-American at NC State (born 1926)
- August 17 — Bob Rogers, former Texas A&M coach
- October 28 — Arnold "Red" Auerbach, Hall of Fame coach and president of the Boston Celtics (born 1917)
- November 29 — Gary Alcorn, Former Detroit Pistons and Los Angeles Lakers player (born 1936)
- December 12 — Paul Arizin, Hall of Famer for the Philadelphia Warriors who twice led the NBA in scoring (born 1928)
- December 13 — Lamar Hunt, Last remaining original ownership partner of the Chicago Bulls (born 1932)
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“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)
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)