Deaths
- 26 January - Stan Nichols, English cricketer (born 1900)
- 6 March - George Formby, British singer, comedian and actor (born 1904)
- 8 March - Thomas Beecham, English conductor (born 1879)
- 7 April - Vanessa Bell, English artist and interior designer (born 1879)
- 28 June - Huw Menai, Welsh poet (born 1886)
- 1 October - Sir William Reid Dick, Scottish sculptor (born 1879)
- 13 October
- Augustus John, Welsh artist (born 1878)
- John MacCormick, Scottish lawyer (born 1904)
- 24 December - Charles Hamilton, English children's story writer (born 1876)
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“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)
“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)