Deaths
- 7 January - The famous Lime tree at Canterbury's St Lawrence Ground.
- 27 February - Allan Rae, 82, Jamaica and West Indies
- 1 March - Brian Luckhurst, Kent County Cricket Club and England
- 5 March - David Sheppard,75, Sussex County Cricket Club and England
- 25 March - Ken Suttle, Sussex County Cricket Club, who played a record played 423 consecutive County Championship matches
- 30 May - Fazal Mahmood, 78, Pakistan medium-pace bowler, Wisden Cricketer of the Year 1955
- 18 June - Syed Mushtaq Ali, 90, India, the first Indian batsman to score a Test century away from home.
- 26 June - Eknath Solkar, 57, India all-rounder, described by Cricinfo as "one of India's greatest close-in fielders"
- 5 July - Baloo Gupte, 70, India leg spinner, record-holder of Duleep Trophy best bowling figures with nine for 55
- 30 November - Denis Lindsay, 66, South Africa wicket-keeper.
- 30 December - Eddie Barlow, 65, South African opening batsman .
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“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)
“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)