Deaths
- January 12: Shunsaku Kudō, Imperial Japanese Navy officer
- January 29: Yusuke Hagihara, astronomer
- February 24: Yoshie Shiratori, murderer
- March 25: Akinoumi Setsuo, sumo wrestler
- March 26: Iwao Matsuda, senior officer in the Imperial Japanese army
- April 17: Yukio Tsuda, football player
- May 23: Hiroshi Ohshita, professional baseball player
- May 29: Eddie Imazu, art director
- July 8: Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, physicist
- July 20: Shōji Yamagishi, photography critic, curator, and magazine editor
- July 27: Sōkichi Takagi, admiral and political figure
- August 24: Shigeharu Nakano, author and Communist Party politician
- August 25: Sōgen Asahina, Rinzai zen master
- September 17: Mitsuru Yoshida, author and naval officer
- September 30: Shiina Etsusaburo, foreign minister of Japan from 1964 to 1966
- October 22: Mieko Kamiya, psychiatrist
- December 25: Kenji Tomiki, aikido and judo teacher
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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)
“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)