Deaths
- January 14 - Barry Fitzgerald, 72, Irish actor
- January 22 - Herbert Marshall, 75, British actor
- January 31 - Elizabeth Patterson, 90, American actress
- February 1 - Buster Keaton, 70, American actor and film director
- February 1 - Hedda Hopper, 80, American gossip columnist and former actress
- February 9 - Sophie Tucker, 82, Russian-born American singer and actress
- February 26 - Mientje Kling, 71, Dutch actress
- June 5 - Natacha Rambova, 69, American actress
- June 19 - Ed Wynn, 79, American actor
- July 23 - Montgomery Clift, 45, American actor
- July 23 - Douglass Montgomery, 59, American actor
- August 3 - Lenny Bruce, 40, American satirist, Father of modern stand up
- August 15 - Jan Kiepura, 64, Polish tenor and actor
- August 15 - Seena Owen, 71, American actress
- August 23 - Francis X. Bushman, 83, American actor
- October 13 - Clifton Webb, 76, American actor
- October 16 - George O'Hara, 67, American actor
- October 24 - Hans Dreier, 81, German art director of European and American films
- December 14 - Richard Whorf, 60, American actor and director
- December 15 - Walt Disney, 65, American producer and cartoonist
- September 14 - Nikolay Cherkasov, 63, Soviet actor
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“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)