Deaths
- January 25 – Helen Ware, actress
- June 9 – Owen Moore, actor
- August 23 – Sidney Howard, writer
- September 24 – Carl Laemmle, producer
- October 23 – Zane Grey, writer of novels
- October 28 – Alice Brady, actress
- December 12 – Douglas Fairbanks, actor
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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)
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“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)