Deaths
- February 3 – Robert Duncan, poet
- February 28 – Kylie Tennant, Australian novelist, playwright and historian
- March – Máirtín Ó Direáin, Irish language poet
- April 12 – Alan Paton, novelist
- April 21 – I. A. L. Diamond, comedy writer
- May 8 – Robert A. Heinlein, science fiction author
- June 10 – Louis L'Amour, western novelist
- July 12 – Joshua Logan, stage and film writer
- August 28 – Max Shulman, novelist, short-story writer and dramatist
- September 28 – Charles Addams, American cartoonist
- October 1 – Sacheverell Sitwell, art critic, brother of Edith Sitwell and Osbert Sitwell
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- Unknown date
- Frank Bonham, American western and young adult novelist
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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)
“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.”
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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
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