Deaths
- January 31 – Gordon R. Dickson, science fiction writer
- February 7 – Anne Morrow Lindbergh, author, aviator
- February 14 – Alan Ross, 78, poet and editor
- March 12 – Robert Ludlum, author
- May 11 – Douglas Adams, author (heart attack) (born 1952)
- May 13 – R.K. Narayan, 94, Indian novelist
- June 1 – Hank Ketcham, 81, cartoonist, creator of Dennis the Menace
- June 27 – Tove Jansson, children's author
- July 3 – Mordecai Richler
- August 1 – Poul Anderson – fantasy / sci-fi author
- August 6 – Jorge Amado, 88, Brazilian writer
- August 20 – Fred Hoyle, Astronomer and science fiction writer
- November 10 – Ken Kesey, 66, author.
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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)
“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)