Deaths
- 3 January - William Joyce, Irish American fascist propagandist (born 1906) (hanged at Wandsworth Prison for treason)
- 5 February - George Arliss, English actor (born 1868)
- 3 April - Alf Common, English footballer (born 1880)
- 21 April - John Maynard Keynes, economist (born 1883)
- 14 June - John Logie Baird, Scottish television pioneer (born 1888)
- 11 July - Paul Nash, artist (born 1889)
- 15 July - Razor Smith, English cricketer (born 1877)
- 13 August - H.G. Wells, English writer (born 1866)
- 31 August - Harley Granville-Barker, actor, playwright and critic (born 1877)
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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)
“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)