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:
“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)
“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)