Deaths
- January 9 - Pierre Fresnay, French actor
- January 18 - Gertrude Olmstead, American actress
- January 24 - Larry Fine, American actor, original member of the Three Stooges
- January 27 - Bill Walsh, American film producer and writer
- February 20 – Robert Strauss, actor
- March 4 - Renée Björling, Swedish actress
- March 7 - Ben Blue, Canadian-born American actor
- March 14 - Susan Hayward, American actress
- April 3 - Mary Ure, Scottish actress
- April 10 - Marjorie Main, American actress
- April 13 - Larry Parks, American actor
- April 15 - Richard Conte, American actor
- May 4 - Moe Howard, American actor, original member of the Three Stooges
- June 4 - Evelyn Brent, American actress
- June 28 - Rod Serling, writer and creator of The Twilight Zone (1959-64) and Night Gallery (1969-73); screenplay writer for Seven Days in May (1964)
- October 31 - Joseph Calleia, Maltese actor
- November 2 - Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian film director
- November 5 - Annette Kellerman, Australian swimmer, and silent film actress, portrayed by Esther Williams
- December 13 - Cyril Delevanti, British character actor
- December 24 - Bernard Herrmann, American film composer
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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)
“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“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)