Deaths
- January 8 - Andrei Bely, novelist, poet and critic
- January 15 - Hermann Bahr, dramatist and critic
- January 30 - Frank Nelson Doubleday, publisher
- February 8 - Ferenc Móra, novelist and journalist
- March 10 - F. Anstey, Vice Versa author
- April 9 - Safvet-beg Bašagić, poet
- April 11 - Gerald du Maurier, actor-manager, son of George du Maurier and father of Daphne du Maurier
- April 12 - Robert Clyde Packer, newspaper magnate
- June 21 - Thorne Smith, humorist and fantasy author
- June 26 - Naito Torajiro, historian
- June 30 - Fritz Gerlich, anti-Hitler journalist
- July 23 - Karl Joel, philosopher
- July 29 - Frane Bulić, historian
- August 13 - Mary Hunter Austin, travel writer
- September 9 - Roger Fry, art critic
- October 1 - Shakeb Jalali, Famous URDU poet
- November 23 - Arthur Wing Pinero, dramatist
- December 15 - Gustave Lanson, historian and literary critic
- date unknown - Julian Hawthorne, journalist and novelist
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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)
“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)