Deaths
- March 25 – Ben Carnevale, Hall of Fame coach of the Navy Midshipmen and North Carolina Tar Heels (born 1915)
- April 1 – Marvin Stone, former Kentucky Wildcats and Louisville Cardinals player (born 1981)
- August 20 – Larry Hennessy, Former Villanova All-American (born 1929)
- August 20 – Kevin Duckworth, Former NBA All-Star with the Portland Trail Blazers (born 1964)
- September 8 – Don Haskins, Hall of Fame coach of the UTEP Miners, 1966 National Champions (born 1930)
- November 17 – Pete Newell, Hall of Fame coach of the California Golden Bears, 1959 National Champions (born 1915)
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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)
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“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)