Deaths
- January 14 – Anaïs Nin, novelist and diarist
- February 27 – John Dickson Carr, crime novelist
- April 7 – Jim Thompson, pulp fiction author
- April 11 – Jacques Prévert, poet
- May 9 – James Jones, American novelist (born 1921)
- July 2 – Vladimir Nabokov, Russian/American novelist
- September 4 – E. F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful author
- September 12 – Robert Lowell, poet
- October 27 – James M. Cain, novelist, newspaperman
- November 10 – Dennis Wheatley, occult novelist
- November 30 – Terence Rattigan, dramatist
- December 22 – Frank Thiess, German writer
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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)
“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)