Deaths
- March 11 — Buddy Jeannette, Hall of Fame NBA, NBL and BAA player (born 1917)
- March 17 — Cliff Barker, American basketball player (born 1921)
- May 15 — Earl "Goat" Manigault, legendary street player (born 1944)
- August 8 — Sam Balter, member of 1936 US Olympic team (born 1909)
- November 6 — Jack Hartman, American Kansas State University coach (born 1925)
- November 13 — Red Holzman, American Basketball Hall of Fame coach who won two NBA championships with the New York Knicks (born 1920)
- December 6 — Radomir Shaper, Serbian player and administrator and FIBA Hall of Fame member (born 1925)
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“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)
“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)