Deaths
- February 15 – Edgar Snow, journalist, 66 (cancer)
- March 4 – Richard Church, poet and novelist, 78
- March 9 – Violet Trefusis, English writer and lover of Vita Sackville-West, 77
- March 11 – Fredric Brown, science fiction and mystery author, 65
- April 10 – Laurence Manning, science fiction author, 72
- May 22 – Cecil Day-Lewis, Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, 68
- June 24 – R. F. Delderfield, novelist and historian, 60
- August 22 – Ernestine Hill, travel writer, 73
- September 21 – Henry de Montherlant, French essayist, novelist and dramatist, 77
- September 27 – S. R. Ranganathan, influential Indian librarian, 80
- November 1 – Ezra Pound, poet, 87
- December 10 – Mark Van Doren, poet, 78
- December 13 – L. P. Hartley, novelist, 76
- December 23 – Abraham Joshua Heschel, theologian, 65
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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)
“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)
“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)