Deaths
- February 20 - George Periolat, American actor (born 1874)
- March 5 - Maxine Elliott, American actress (born 1868)
- April 9 - Mrs. Patrick Campbell, English actress (born 1858)
- May 25 - Joe De Grasse, Canadian-born American film director (born 1873)
- July 1 - Ben Turpin, American actor (born 1869)
- July 15 - Donald Calthrop, English actor (born 1888)
- September 25 - Marguerite Clark, American actress (born 1883)
- October 10 - Berton Churchill, Canadian actor (born 1876)
- October 12 - Tom Mix, American actor (born 1880)
- December 5 - Wilfred Lucas, Canadian-born American actor, screenwriter, director (born 1871)
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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)
“There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
—Philip Caputo (b. 1941)
“On almost the incendiary eve
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—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)