Deaths
- 11 January - Nancy Phelan, author (born 1913)
- 27 March - Alan Collins, short story writer (born 1928)
- 8 April - John Button, politician and author (born 1933)
- 26 April - Pamela Bone, journalist and author (born 1940)
- 29 April - John Hooker, author (born 1932)
- 21 June - Justina Williams, poet (born 1916)
- 24 August - Patricia Rolfe, short story writer and critic (born 1920)
- 30 October - Jacob G. Rosenberg, poet and memoirist (born 1922)
- 15 November - Ivan Southall, children's author (born 1921)
- 10 December - Dorothy Porter, poet (born 1954)
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“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)