Deaths
- January 2: Cecilia Muñoz-Palma, Supreme Court Associate Justice and Constitutional Commission president (born 1914)
- January 11: Amir bin Muhammad Baraguir, Sultan of Maguindanao (born 1960)
- January 23: Ernie Baron, television journalist, host, and inventor (born 1940)
- January 29: Andrew Gonzalez, educator and linguist (born 1940)
- February 14: Ramon Bagatsing, longest serving Mayor of Manila from 1971–1986, Plaza Miranda bombing survivor (born 1916)
- April 5: Don Antonio Madrigal, father of Senator Jamby Madrigal (born 1918)
- April 23: Chat Silayan, actress and former beauty queen (born 1960)
- April 12: Luzviminda Puno, Clerk of Court of the Supreme Court and wife of Chief Justice Puno. (born 1940)
- May 6: Allen Cudal, 24, guitarist of Greyhoundz (born 1982)
- May 29: Sotero Llamas, politician (born 1951)
- July 26: Romualdo Vicencio, incumbent congressman, 2nd district of Northern Samar (born 1934)
- August 14: Analiza "Hazel" Recheta, Arnel Guiao and Ismael Cabugayan, television journalists
- August 25: Gregorio Cendana, chief information officer during Marcos presidency (born 1930)
- August 28: Joey Rufino, former executive director of LAKAS (born 1954)
- September 18: Eddie Mercado, television host (born 1938)
- September 19: Conrado M. Vasquez, Supreme Court Associate Justice and Ombudsman (born 1913)
- September 20: Jojo Lapus, newspaper journalist and television scriptwriter (born 1945)
- October 3: Alberto Ramento, bishop of the Philippine Independent Church (born 1937)
- October 7: Dan Campilan, television journalist (born 1980)
- November 2: Rafael Donato, educator and linguist (born 1938)
- November 11: James Bersamin, Board Member of the 2nd District of Abra (born 1950)
- November 24: Maximo V. Soliven, newspaper journalist and publisher (born 1933)
- November 28: Rosita Quinto Stecza, 1950s actress under the screen name Rosa Mia (born 1924)
- November 29: Victoria Quirino-Delgado, acted as First Lady of the Philippines during term of her widowered father (born 1929)
- November 30: Rafael Buenaventura, former governor of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (born 1938)
- December 4: Ernesto Gidaya, retired general and Veterans Freedom Party incumbent congressman (born 1926)
- December 16: Luis Bersamin, incumbent congressman, lone district of Abra (born 1944)
- December 21: Ramon Obusan, choreographer, National Artist for Dance (born 1938)
- December 22: Danilo Ayala Bernardo, journalist (born 1948)
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
—Philip Caputo (b. 1941)
“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)
“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)