Deaths
- 22 January - Alfred Maudslay, colonial diplomat, explorer and archaeologist (born 1850)
- 11 February - Charles Algernon Parsons, inventor (born 1854)
- 5 March - Arthur Tooth, Anglican clergyman prosecuted for Ritualist practices in the 1870s (born 1839)
- 17 March - James Stewart, Scottish Labour Party politician, MP for Glasgow St. Rollox 1922–1931 (born 1863)
- 27 March - Arnold Bennett, novelist (born 1867)
- 30 April - Sammy Woods, cricketer (born 1867)
- 13 June - Jesse Boot, 1st Baron Trent, businessman (born 1850)
- 5 September - John Thomson, footballer (born 1909)
- 2 October - Thomas Lipton, merchant and yachtsman (born 1850)
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“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)
“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)