Deaths
- January 8 - Eleanor Hibbert, better known as Jean Plaidy and Victoria Holt
- January 22 - Kōbō Abe, novelist and playwright
- March 9 - C. Northcote Parkinson, historian, codifier of Parkinson's Law
- April 15 - Leslie Charteris, creator of "The Saint"
- April 23 - Bertus Aafjes, Dutch poet
- June 19 - William Golding, novelist and poet
- July 10 - Ruth Krauss, children's book author and poet
- August 28 - E. P. Thompson, political historian
- September 7 - Eugen Barbu, novelist, playwright and journalist
- September 16 - Oodgeroo Noonuccal, poet
- November 25 - Anthony Burgess, novelist
- December 4 - Margaret Landon, author of Anna and the King of Siam
- December 28 - William L. Shirer, historian
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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)
“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)
“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)