Deaths
- January 8 — Paul Endacott, Hall of Fame player for the Kansas Jayhawks (b. 1902)
- February 2 — Raimundo Saporta, former head of Real Madrid basketball and FIBA Hall of Fame member (b. 1926)
- March 6 — Roger Brown, player for Indiana Pacers (b. 1942)
- April 18 — Francis Johnson, member of 1936 US Olympic champion team (b. 1910)
- May 16 — Bones McKinney, former coach of the Wake Forest Demon Deacons and early NBA player (b. 1919)
- December 23 — Lester Harrison, Hall of Fame coach of the 1951 NBA Champion Rochester Royals (b. 1904)
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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)
“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)