Deaths
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- January 19 – Maria Zaturenska, 80, of heart failure
- March 11 – Horace Gregory, 83
- March 15 – Edgell Rickword (born 1898, English poet, critic, journalist and literary editor who was one of the leading communist intellectuals active in the 1930s
- March 18 – Yaho Kitabatake 北畠 八穂 (born 1903), Japanese, Showa period poet and children's fiction writer
- April 20 – Archibald MacLeish, 89 (born 1892), American
- June 5 – Nishiwaki Junzaburo 西脇順三郎 (born 1894), Japanese, Shōwa period poet and literary critic
- June 6 – Kenneth Rexroth, 76 (born 1905), of a heart ailment, American
- June 18 – Djuna Barnes, 90, American writer and poet
- October 22 – Richard Hugo, 58, of leukemia
- November 13 – Babette Deutsch, 87, American
- December 3 – Bishnu Dey (born 1909) Bengali poet, prose writer and movie critic
- date not known – P'Bitek
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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)
“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)