Deaths
- 24 January - Michael Scott, architect (born 1905).
- 27 January - Dónall Mac Amhlaigh, writer (born 1926).
- January - Jackie Wright, comedian (born 1905).
- 11 March - Simon Curley, cricketer (born 1917).
- 7 April - Frank Cluskey, former leader of the Labour Party (born 1930).
- 15 June - Ray McAnally, actor (born 1926).
- July - Eddie Gannon, soccer player (born 1921).
- 3 August - Dominic Behan, songwriter, novelist and playwright (born 1928).
- 10 August - H. Montgomery Hyde, barrister, author and Ulster Unionist MP (born 1907).
- 12 September - Seamus Twomey, twice chief of staff of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (born 1919).
- 4 November - Vivian Mercier, literary critic (born 1919).
- 14 December - Gerry Healy, British Trotskyist leader (born 1913).
- 22 December - Samuel Beckett, Nobel Prize in Literature 1969, playwright, novelist and poet (born 1906).
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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)
“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)
“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)