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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...
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
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