Deaths
- January 30 - Barbara La Marr, actress (born 1896)
- February 6 - Carrie Clark Ward, actress (born 1862)
- April 20 - Billy Quirk, actor (born 1873)
- March 2 - Victory Bateman, actress (born 1865)
- July 22 - Willard Louis, actor (born 1882)
- August 22 - Joe Moore, actor, brother of Mary, Matt, Owen & Tom Moore
- August 23 - Rudolph Valentino, actor (born 1895)
- August 30 - Eddie Lyons, American actor (born 1886)
- September 11 - Matsunosuke Onoe, actor (born 1875)
- October 31 - Harry Houdini, magician & actor (born 1874)
- November 1 - Lester Cuneo, actor (born 1888)
- November 7 - Tom Forman, silent film actor & director (born 1893)
- November 8 - James K Hackett, stage & silent film actor (born 1869)
- November 17 - Harold Vosburgh, silent film actor (born 1870)
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
—Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)
“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)