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:
“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)