Deaths
- 19 March – Arthur C. Clarke (b. 1917), British science fiction author, futurist and inventor.
- 8 April – Graham Higman (b. 1917), British mathematician.
- 13 April – John Wheeler (b. 1911), American theoretical physicist, coined the terms black hole and wormhole.
- 16 April – Edward Norton Lorenz (b. 1917), American mathematician and meteorologist, coined the term butterfly effect.
- 29 April – Albert Hofmann (b. 1906), Swiss chemist, synthesizer of LSD.
- 15 May – Willis Lamb (b. 1913), American physicist, winner of the 1955 Nobel Prize in Physics.
- 22 July – Victor A. McKusick (b. 1921), American geneticist, known as the "Father of Genetic Medicine".
- 5 August – Neil Bartlett (b. 1932), British chemist who prepared the first compound of a noble gas.
- 14 November – Adrian Kantrowitz (b. 1918), American cardiac surgeon.
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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)
“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)