Deaths
- March 7 — Franziska Rochat-Moser (35), Swiss long-distance runner
- March 22 — Marcel Hansenne (85), French middle distance runner
- March 27 — Tadeusz Rut (70), Polish hammer thrower
- May 26 — Mamo Wolde (69), Ethiopian runner
- June 17 — Willie Davenport (59), American hurdler
- June 20 — Tinus Osendarp (86), Dutch athlete
- August 1 — Theo Bruce (79), Australian long jumper
- August 12 — Knud Lundberg (82), Danish multi-talented sportsman
- August 31 — Joe McCluskey (91), American athlete
- September 18 — Bob Hayes (59), American sprinter and American football player
- November 15 — Sohn Kee-Chung (90), Korean marathoner
- November 18 — Kim Gallagher (38), American athlete
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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)
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)