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:
“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)
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“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)