Deaths
- May 8 - John Kotz, 1941 NCAA Tournament Most Outstanding Player and player for the Sheboygan Red Skins (b. 1919)
- July 8 — Frank Lubin, member of 1936 US Olympic championship team (b. 1910)
- August 7 — Harry Litwack, Hall of fame college coach of the Temple Owls (b. 1907)
- August 19 — Kim Perrot, WNBA Player for the Houston Comets (b. 1967)
- October 8 — John McLendon, Hall of Fame college and ABA coach (b. 1915)
- October 12 — Wilt Chamberlain, player and member of Basketball Hall of Fame. Many believe him to have been the best basketball player in the history of the game (b. 1936)
- October 14 — Jim Jordan, All-American at North Carolina (b. 1925)
- October 15 — Marvin Wood 71, coach of 1954 Indiana state basketball champion Milan, Indiana High School. The story of the 1954 team became the basis for the movie Hoosiers
- October 25 — Forddy Anderson, Final Four college coach at both Bradley and Michigan State. NBA scout for the Boston Celtics (b. 1919)
- December 1 — William "Pop" Gates, Hall of Fame Harlem Renaissance and Harlem Globetrotters player (b. 1917)
- December 23 — Vladimir Kondrashin, FIBA Hall of Fame Russian coach (b. 1929)
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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)
“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)
“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)