Deaths
- January 21: Ikki Kajiwara, author, manga writer, and film producer
- February 3: Prince Takamatsu
- March 8: Iwao Yamawaki, photographer
- April 5: Tsuneko Nakazato, novelist
- April 15: Masatoshi Nakayama, master of Shotokan karate
- April 21: Haruyasu Nakajima, baseball player
- May 10: Sadamichi Hirasawa, tempera painter
- June 6: Mori Mari, author
- June 16: Kōji Tsuruta, actor
- July 17: Yujiro Ishihara, actor
- July 20: Ichirō Arishima, comedian and actor
- August 5: Tatsuhiko Shibusawa, novelist, art critic, and translator of French literature
- August 7: Nobusuke Kishi, former prime minister
- August 10: Prince Yamashina Takehiko
- August 16: Sumiko Kurishima, actress and master of traditional Japanese dance
- November 11: Hiroshi Kawaguchi, actor
- December 29: Jun Ishikawa, author
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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)
“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)
“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)