Deaths
- January 24: Masazumi Inada, lieutenant general in the Japanese Imperial Army
- February 16: Ryusaburo Umehara, artist
- February 21: Shigechiyo Izumi, supercentenarian
- February 24: Iwaichi Fujiwara, officer in the Imperial Japanese Navy
- April 8: Yukiko Okada, idol singer
- April 21: Matsunobori Shigeo, sumo wrestler
- May 13: Katsuji Matsumoto, illustrator and shōjo manga artist
- May 17: Masaji Kitano, medical doctor, microbiologist and the lieutenant general
- June 26: Kunio Maekawa, architect
- June 30: Soichi Ichida, philatelist
- July 31: Chiune Sugihara, diplomat and 'Japanese Schindler'
- September 10: Koji Shima, film director and screenwriter
- September 26: Noboru Terada, freestyle swimmer
- October 14: Takahiko Yamanouchi, theoretical physicist
- October 25: Tadao Tannaka, mathematician
- November 12: Fumiko Enchi, author
- November 26: Kaku Takagawa, Go player
- December 25: Hamao Umezawa, scientist
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“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)