Deaths
- January 14 - Douglas Sirk, director
- January 15 - Ray Bolger, actor, singer, dancer
- February 27 - Joan Greenwood, actress
- March 3 - Danny Kaye, actor
- March 21 - Robert Preston, actor, singer
- May 14 - Rita Hayworth, actress
- June 1 - Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, director
- June 22 - Fred Astaire, actor, singer, dancer
- July 3 - Viola Dana, actress
- July 7 - Hannelore Schroth, actress
- July 31 - Joseph E. Levine, producer
- August 1 - Pola Negri, actress
- August 17 - Clarence Brown, director
- August 28 - John Huston, actor, director
- August 29 - Lee Marvin, actor
- September 4 - Richard Marquand, director
- September 13 - Mervyn LeRoy, director
- September 23 - Bob Fosse, director and choreographer
- September 25 - Mary Astor, actress
- September 25 - Emlyn Williams, actor
- October 2 - Madeleine Carroll, actress
- October 13 - Kishore Kumar, actor, singer
- December 4 - Rouben Mamoulian, director
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“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)
“This is the 184th Demonstration.
...
What we do is not beautiful
hurts no one makes no one desperate
we do not break the panes of safety glass
stretching between people on the street
and the deaths they hire.”
—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)