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:
“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)
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)