Deaths
- March 27 - Yuri Gagarin (born 1934), cosmonaut, the first man in space.
- April 1 - Lev Davidovich Landau (born 1908), Russian physicist.
- July 28 - Otto Hahn (born 1879), German chemist who received the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- October 27 - Lise Meitner (born 1878), German physicist, discoverer in 1939, with Otto Hahn, of nuclear fission.
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“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.”
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“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
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“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
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