Deaths
- 2 March – Howard Carter, archaeologist (born 1874)
- 26 June – Ford Madox Ford, novelist, poet, critic and editor (born 1873)
- 6 September – Arthur Rackham, illustrator (born 1867)
- 3 December – Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, daughter of Queen Victoria (born 1848)
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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)
“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)