Deaths
- 10 April – Stuart Sutcliffe, English artist and musician (The Beatles) (born 1940)
- 5 May – Ernest Tyldesley, English cricketer (born 1889)
- 2 June – Vita Sackville-West, English writer and landscape gardener (born 1892)
- 12 June – John Ireland, English composer (born 1879)
- 13 June – Eugène Aynsley Goossens, English composer (born 1893)
- 21 July – G.M. Trevelyan, English historian (born 1876)
- 27 July – Richard Aldington, English poet (born 1892)
- 15 December – Charles Laughton, English actor and director (born 1899)
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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)