Deaths
- February 8 — Shelby Metcalf, former college coach at Texas A&M (born 1930)
- February 21 — Barry Stevens, former NBA player (born 1963)
- February 22 — Dennis Johnson, Boston Celtics player (born 1954)
- March 1 — Bobby Speight, All-American at NC State (born 1930)
- March 24 — June Bernardino, basketball player, journalist and executive (born 1947)
- April 18 — Harry Miller, Toronto Huskies player (born 1923)
- May 27 — Howard Porter, former NBA player and 1971 NCAA Tournament Most Outstanding Player (born 1948)
- July 26 — Skip Prosser, College coach of the Wake Forest Demon Deacons (born 1950)
- August 17 — Eddie Griffin, former Seton Hall and NBA player (born 1982)
- August 22 — Butch van Breda Kolff, former college and NBA coach (born 1922)
- November 29 — Ralph Beard, All-American at Kentucky. Two-time National Champion and Olympic Gold Medalist (born 1927)
- December 28 — Aidin Nikkhah Bahrami, Iran national basketball team player (born 1982)
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“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)
“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)