Deaths
- January 2 - Frank Muir, comedy writer, 77
- January 11 - John Wells, satirical writer, 61
- January 23 - John Forbes, Australian poet
- January 27 - Geoffrey Trease, historical novelist
- February 7 - Lawrence Sanders, author
- February 17 - Ernst Jünger, novelist and war memoirist
- March 15 - Dr Benjamin Spock, childcare expert
- April 11- Francis Durbridge, playwright, 85
- April 19 - Octavio Paz, winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature, 84
- April 27 - Pauline Réage, journalist and novelist, 90
- April 27 - Carlos Castaneda, anthropologist and spiritual author, 72
- May 9 - Nat Perrin, comedy writer, 93
- June 10 - Hammond Innes, novelist, 84
- June 11 - Dame Catherine Cookson, bestselling novelist, 91
- July 1 - Martin Seymour-Smith, biographer, 70
- July 5 - Johnny Speight, comedy writer, 78
- July 9 - Ian Wallace, science fiction author
- July 14 - Miroslav Holub, Czech poet, 74
- July 23 - John Hopkins, film and television writer
- September 28 - Eric Malling, journalist
- October 22 - Eric Ambler, spy novelist, 89
- October 28 - Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate of Great Britain, 68
- November 3 - Bob Kane, comics artist and writer, creator of Batman, 83
- November 8 - Rumer Godden, novelist, 90
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“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)
“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)