Deaths
- January 1 - Maurice Chevalier, French actor/singer
- January 8 - Wesley Ruggles, movie director, producer
- January 17 - Rochelle Hudson, actress
- February 2 - Jessie Royce Landis, actress
- February 7 - Walter Lang, director
- February 19 - John Grierson, Scots documentary filmmaker (b. 1898)
- March 20 - Marilyn Maxwell, actress
- April 5 - Isabel Jewell, actress
- April 5 - Brian Donlevy, actor
- April 25 - George Sanders, British actor (b. 1906)
- April 30 - Gia Scala, actress
- May 3 - Bruce Cabot, actor
- May 15 - Nigel Green, actor
- May 21 - Margaret Rutherford, actress
- July 6 - Brandon De Wilde, actor
- August 7 - Joi Lansing, actress
- October 9 - Miriam Hopkins, actress
- October 16 - Leo G. Carroll, actor (b. 1886)
- October 24 - Claire Windsor, actress (b. 1897)
- November 5 - Reginald Owen, actor (b. 1887)
- November 16 - Vera Karalli, actress
- November 23 - Marie Wilson, actress
- December 9 - Louella Parsons, Hollywood columnist
- December 26 - Harry S. Truman, president/actor
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“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
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“I sang of death but had I known
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Before he came to meet his own!”
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