Deaths
- March 26 - Katharine Lee Bates, lyricist of "America the Beautiful" (born 1859)
- April 16 - Sir John Morris-Jones, Welsh grammarian & poet (born 1864)
- April 21 - Lucy Clifford, British novelist (born 1846)
- June 8 - Bliss Carman, Canadian poet (born 1861)
- June 22 - Alfred Brunswig, German philosopher (born 1877)
- June 25 - Georges Courteline, French dramatist & novelist (born 1858)
- July 15 - Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian novelist & poet (born 1874)
- July 31 - José de Castro, Portuguese journalist (born 1868)
- August - Mary MacLane, Canadian feminist writer (born 1881)
- December 10 - Harry Crosby, American publisher and poet (born 1898) (suicide)
- date unknown
- Max Lehmann, German historian (born 1845)
- Hans Prutz, German historian (born 1843)
- Grace Rhys, Irish novelist & poet (born 1865)
- Dallas Lore Sharp, American nature writer (born 1870)
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“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)
“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)