Deaths
- January 15 – Sydney Goodsir Smith, poet, dramatist and novelist, 59 (heart attack)
- February 14
- Julian Huxley, biologist and author, brother of Aldous Huxley, 87
- Sir P. G. Wodehouse (born 1881), English comic novelist – creator of Jeeves and Wooster, 93
- February 20 – Ivan Sokolov-Mikitov, Russian author, 92
- March 3 - T. H. Parry-Williams, poet, 87
- March 13 – Ivo Andrić (born 1892), Serbo-Croatian novelist and Nobel laureate of 1961
- May 21 - A. H. Dodd, hanesydd, 83
- June 8 – Murray Leinster, science fiction writer, 78
- September 20 – Saint-John Perse, poet and Nobel laureate of 1960
- October 5 – Constance Malleson, actress and writer
- October 22 – Arnold J. Toynbee, historian, 86
- November 13 – R. C. Sherriff, dramatist, 79
- November 19 – Elizabeth Taylor, novelist, 63 (cancer)
- November 27 – Ross McWhirter, journalist and joint author of the Guinness Book of Records, 50 (assassinated by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA).)
- December 4 – Hannah Arendt, philosopher, 69
- December 7 – Thornton Wilder, novelist and dramatist, 78
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“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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“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)