Deaths
- February 6 – James Hadley Chase, novelist
- March 15 – Radha Krishna Choudhary, Indian historian and writer
- April 7 – Carl Schmitt, political theorist
- July 16 – Heinrich Böll, German writer, Nobel laureate
- August 14 – Alfred Hayes, novelist and poet
- August 30 – Taylor Caldwell, novelist
- October 24 – László Bíró, inventor of the ballpoint pen
- November 3 – John Michael Wallace-Hadrill, historian
- November 25 – Geoffrey Grigson, poet and critic
- December 7 – Robert Graves
- date unknown
- Hedley Bull, economist
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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)
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“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)