Deaths
- 11 February — Carl Meinhof, German linguist (born 1857)
- 21 April — Hans-Valentin Hube, German army general (born 1890)
- 21 July — Claus von Stauffenberg, German military and resistance fighter (born 1907)
- 26 August — Adam von Trott zu Solz, German diplomat (executed) (born 1909)
- 16 September — Gustav Bauer, Chancellor of Germany (born 1870)
- 14 October — Erwin Rommel, German Field Marshal (suicide) (born 1891)
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“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)
“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)