Deaths
- Tan Sri S.O.K Ubaidulla Kadir Basha – Former veteran politician and prominent businessman
- Azmi Kamaruddin – Former Supreme Court Judge (1988)
- Muhammad Dahlan Abdul Baing (Arena Wati) – National Laureate (Sasterawan Negara)
- Roslan Shaharum – Bukit Gantang Member of Parliament (MP)
- James Yakub – Malaysian football striker
- Ibrahim Hussein – artist
- Dublin Unting Ingkot – Batang Ai, Sarawak's state assemblyman
- Mohamed Yusoff Mohamed – Former Supreme Court Judge (1988–1992)
- Oo Gin Sun – former Alor Setar MP (1974–1990) and deputy minister
- Laila Taib – wife of Sarawak's chief minister Abdul Taib Mahmud
- Ismail Yaacob – Manek Urai, Kelantan's State Assemblyman
- Yasmin Ahmad – award -winning film director
- Teoh Beng Hock – Political secretary of Seri Kembangan state assemblyman Ean Yong Hian Wah.
- Mohd Hamdan Abdul Rahman – Permatang Pasir, Penang's state assemblyman
- Ustaz Asri (Rabbani) – Rabbani's nasyid vocalist leader
- Tunku Datuk Dr Ismail Jewa – Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) dean
- Prof Datuk Dr Ismail Md Salleh – First disabled senator in Dewan Negara
- Tun Abdul Hamid Omar – Chief Justice of Malaya, Supreme Court and Lord President
- Azman Mohd Noor – Bagan Pinang, Negeri Sembilan's state assemblyman
- Tan Sri Jaafar Abdul – Former deputy Inspector General of Police (1976–1989) and chairman of Cosway Corporation Berhad
- Datuk Ismail Abbas (Amil Jaya) – Sabah laureate
- Dato' Abdul Rahim Abu Bakar – Former Menteri Besar of Pahang
- Abdullah Salleh – Independence fighter and former senator
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“This is the 184th Demonstration.
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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)
“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)
“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 soldiers 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)