Deaths
- April 23 – Manuel Alcalde (47), Spanish race walker (b. 1956)
- December 4 – June Maston (76), Australian sprinter and athletics coach (b. 1928)
- December 25 – Ian Syster (28), South African long-distance runner (b. 1976)
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)