Deaths
- January 15: Eduardo Hontiveros, 84, Jesuit composer and musician (born 1923)
- January 28: Crisologo Abines, 60, former Congressman, 2nd District of Cebu (born 1947)
- February 2: Billy Balbastro, 68, entertainment columnist and DZMM anchor (born 1940)
- February 4: Larry Cruz, 66, restaurateur, founder of LJC Restaurant Group (born 1941)
- February 8: Victor Dominguez, 69, incumbent Congressman, Lone District, Mountain Province (born 1938)
- February 22: Gilberto Teodoro, Sr., 80, former SSS Administrator and father of Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro (born 1927)
- March 28: Nemesio Prudente, 80, former PUP president and political prisoner (born 1927)
- April 14: Olivia Cenizal, 82, film actress (born 1926)
- April 16: Lucia "Aling Lucing" Cunanan, 79, inventor of sisig (born 1928)
- April 19: Lou Salvador, Jr., 67, film actor (born 1941)
- April 23: Loreto Paras-Sulit, 89, writer of short fiction (born 1908)
- May 8: Jose Feria, 91, retired Supreme Court Associate Justice (born 1917)
- May 16: Henry Canoy, 74, founder of Radio Mindanao Network; grandson of ABS-CBN reporter Jeff Canoy (born 1923)
- May 20: Crispin Beltran, 75, incumbent congressman and labor leader (born 1933)
- May 26: Dolly Aglay, 32, journalist with Reuters and Philippine Star (born 1966)
- May 26: Howlin' Dave, 54, radio disc jockey (born 1955)
- May 29: Romeo Brawner, 73, incumbent COMELEC Commissioner (born 1935)
- June 7: Rudy Fernandez, 56, Filipino actor (born 1952)
- June 7: Danilo Lagbas, 56, incumbent Congressman (born 1952)
- July 22: Gilbert Perez, 49, movie and TV director (born 1959)
- August 16: Lucrecia Kasilag, 90, National Artist of the Philippines (born 1918)
- August 28: Mang Pandoy, 62, street vendor and media icon (born 1945)
- August 28: Zorayda Sanchez, 56, film and TV comedian (born 1952)
- September 1: Dely Magpayo, 88, radio host best known as "Tia Dely" (born 1920)
- September 26: Cirio H. Santiago, 72, film director (born 1936)
- October 13: Khryss Adalia, 62, film and television director (born 1946)
- October 18: Alfredo E. Evangelista, archaeologist, discovered the Laguna Copper Plate
- November 27: Armand Fabella, Secretary of Education (1992–1994), president of Jose Rizal University
- December 7: Marky Cielo, 20, StarStruck 3's Ultimate Male Survivor and Ultimate Soul Survivor (born 1988)
- December 10: Didith Reyes, 60, singer (born 1948)
- December 23: Narciso Bernardo, 72, basketball player and Olympian (born 1937)
- December 24: Ricardo Manapat, 55, author & director of the National Archives (born 1953)
- December 31: Rosendo delas Alas, 88, father of comedienne Ai-Ai de las Alas (born 1920)
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“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)
“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)