Deaths
- January 27 - Masahisa Takenaka, 4th kumicho of the Yamaguchi-gum
- March 30 - Kenkichi Oshima, athlete
- March 30 - Yaeko Nogami, author
- April 12 - Seiji Miyaguchi, actor
- June 24 - Kuninori Marumo, admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy
- July 7 - Shōzō Sakurai, general
- August 12 - Kyu Sakamoto, singer and actor
- August 17 – Matsuo Kishi, film critic, filmmaker
- September 11 - Masako Natsume, model and actress
- September 27 - Ryūtarō Ōtomo, film actor
- October 13 - Eiji Kanie, voice actor
- October 26 - Kikuko Kawakami, author
- December 21 – Kamatari Fujiwara, actor
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“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)
“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)