Deaths
- 18 January – Anton Rupert, 89, billionaire businessman, philanthropist and founding member of World Wildlife Fund, dies from natural causes.
- 27 February – Tsakani "TK" Mhinga, 27, a Rhythm and blues singer, is found dead in a Bryanston hotel. First reports in the media speculated drug overdose but later reports suggested strangulation.
- 11 October – Butch Kerzner, CEO of Kerzner International and son of Sol Kerzner dies in a helicopter crash near Sosua in the Puerto Plata province of the Dominican Republic
- 31 October – Pieter Willem Botha, Prime Minister of South Africa and State President of South Africa, dies in Wilderness
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“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)