Deaths
- February 7 — Dock Boggs, 73, influential old-time country singer.
- June 12 — J. E. Mainer, 72, old-time fiddle player and early country music star.
- August 7 - Henry D. "Homer" Haynes, 50, of the Homer and Jethro comedy duo.
- August 20 — Tom Darby, 79, one half of the duo Darby and Tarlton, an early country music duo.
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“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)
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)