Deaths
- 15 September – John Matshikiza, actor, director, poet and journalist, dies at the age of 53 after suffering a heart attack at a restaurant in Melville, Johannesburg
- 27 October – Es'kia Mphahlele
- 10 November – Miriam Makeba, 76, South African singer dies of heart attack after a concert in Italy.
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“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)
“This is the 184th Demonstration.
...
What we do is not beautiful
hurts no one makes no one desperate
we do not break the panes of safety glass
stretching between people on the street
and the deaths they hire.”
—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)