Deaths
- January 4: Shohachi Ishii, wrestler
- January 23: Shōjirō Iida, general
- February 14: Kitsuju Ayabe, general
- February 22: Sadaaki Akamatsu, officer and ace fighter pilot in the Imperial Japanese Navy
- March 16: Susumu Kimura, admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy
- May 21: Hiroshi Inagaki, filmmaker
- October 10: Tameichi Hara, Imperial Japanese naval commander
- October 21: Kanjūrō Arashi, actor
- December 28: Nobuzo Tohmatsu, admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy
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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)
“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)
“This is the 184th Demonstration.
...
What we do is not beautiful
hurts no one makes no one desperate
we do not break the panes of safety glass
stretching between people on the street
and the deaths they hire.”
—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)