Deaths
- January 4 - Violet and Daisy Hilton, conjoined twins, actresses, appeared in film Freaks
- January 8 - Leslie Goodwins, director
- February 2 - Boris Karloff, actor
- February 4 - Thelma Ritter, actress
- February 11 - James Lanphier, actor
- February 27 - John Boles, actor
- May 24 - Mitzi Green, actress
- May 27 - Jeffrey Hunter, actor
- June 8 - Robert Taylor, actor
- June 10 - Frank Lawton, actor
- June 13 - Martita Hunt, actress
- June 19 - Natalie Talmadge, silent screen actress
- June 22 - Judy Garland, actress
- July 5 - Leo McCarey, director
- July 8 - Gladys Swarthout, actress
- August 1 - Donald Keith, film actor
- August 9 - Sharon Tate, actress, murdered by Charles Manson Family, wife of director Roman Polanski
- August 14 - Sigrid Gurie, actress
- August 15 - William Goetz, producer, studio executive
- October 12 - Sonja Henie, actress, former Olympic ice skater
- October 15 - Rod La Rocque, silent screen actor
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)