Deaths
- February 23 - W. A. C. Bennett, Premier of British Columbia (b.1900)
- March 26 - Lionel Bertrand, politician, journalist and newspaper editor (b.1906)
- May 9 - Cyrus S. Eaton, investment banker, businessman and philanthropist (b.1883)
- May 15 - Dora Mavor Moore, actor, teacher and director (b.1888)
- May 29 - Mary Pickford, actress and studio co-founder (b.1892)
- July 11 - Claude Wagner, judge and politician (b.1925)
- August 16 - John Diefenbaker, politician and 13th Prime Minister of Canada (b.1895)
- September 28 - John Herbert Chapman, scientist and space researcher (b.1921)
- November 24 - John Robert Cartwright, jurist and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada (b.1895)
- December 19 - Donald Creighton, historian (b.1902)
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