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)
“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)