Deaths
- February 1 – The crew of STS-107
- Michael P. Anderson (b. 1959)
- David McDowell Brown (b. 1956)
- Kalpana Chawla (b. 1961)
- Laurel Clark (b. 1961)
- Rick Husband (b. 1957)
- William C. McCool (b. 1961)
- Ilan Ramon (b. 1954)
- February 14 – Dolly the sheep (b. 1996), the world's first cloned mammal.
- March 29 – Carlo Urbani (b. 1956), physician, discoverer of SARS.
- April 17 – Dr. Robert Atkins (b. 1930), nutritionist.
- May 28 – Ilya Prigogine (b. 1917), chemist, Nobel laureate in chemistry.
- May 28 – Oleg Makarov (b. 1933), cosmonaut
- September 9 – Edward Teller (b. 1908), physicist, inventor of the hydrogen bomb.
- October 15 – Bertram N. Brockhouse (b. 1918), physicist.
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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)
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)