Deaths
- January 1 – Townes Van Zandt, Country-folk music singer-songwriter (born 1944)
- March 4 - Carey Loftin, actor and stuntman (born 1914)
- April 21 – Thomas H. D. Mahoney, professor and politician (born 1913)
- September 27 – Adriana Marines, murder victim (born 1992)
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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)
“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)
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)