Deaths
- January 3 - Johnny Most, Famed announcer for the Boston Celtics (born 1923)
- January 15 - Henry "Hank" Iba, Hall of Fame coach of the two-time national champion Oklahoma A&M Aggies and three-time Olympic coach (born 1904)
- January 19 - Chris Street, Iowa Hawkeyes forward (born 1972)
- January 22 - Jim Pollard, Hall of Fame player for the Minneapolis Lakers (born 1922)
- March 8 - Don Barksdale, College basketball's first African-American consensus All-American at UCLA (born 1923)
- March 9 - Vanya Voynova, Bulgarian women's player and FIBA Hall of Fame member (born 1934)
- April 28 - Jim Valvano, Coach of the 1983 National Champion NC State Wolfpack (born 1946)
- June 3 - Joe Fortenberry, member of 1936 US Olympic champion team (born 1911)
- June 7 - Dražen Petrović, Croatian basketball star of the New Jersey Nets (born 1964)
- June 16 - Arad McCutchan, Hall of Fame coach of the five-time NCAA College Division national champion Evansville Purple Aces (born 1912)
- July 27 - Reggie Lewis, NBA All-Star from the Boston Celtics (born 1965)
- October 26 - Everett Dean, Hall of Fame coach of the 1942 NCAA Champion Stanford Indians (born 1898)
- November 28 - Robert "Bubbles" Hawkins, NBA player (born 1954)
- December 9 - Matt Guokas, Sr., player for the Philadelphia Warriors and basketball announcer. Father of Matt Guokas, NBA head coach (born 1915)
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“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)