Deaths
- January 12 – Robert Harbin, author of many books on origami
- March 1 – Paul Scott, Raj Quartet author
- March 24 – Leigh Brackett, science fiction writer
- April 14 – F. R. Leavis, literary critic
- May 1 – Sylvia Townsend Warner, poet and novelist
- May 12 – Louis Zukofsky, modernist poet
- June 18 – Walter C. Alvarez, medical author
- September 15 – Edmund Crispin, crime writer
- September 28 – Pope John Paul I, author of Illustrissimi under his real name of Albino Luciani
- November 15 – Margaret Mead, anthropologist and author
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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)
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“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)