Deaths
- 15 February: Kevin Smith, actor.
- 22 February: Sir Raymond Firth, ethnologist.
- 14 March: Cherry Barbara Grimm, fantasy and science-fiction writer under the pseudonym Cherry Wilder.
- 28 May: Norman King, politician.
- 23 July: William Bell, cricketer.
- 24 August: Alan Brash, church leader.
- 3 October: Dalvanius Prime, entertainer.
- 31 October: David Henry Lewis, doctor, sailor and Polynesian scholar (in Queensland).
- 15 November J.J. Stewart, rugby coach.
- 29 December: Don Clarke, rugby player.
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“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)