Deaths
- January 16 - Carole Lombard, American actress (born 1908)
- January 31 - Rolf Wenkhaus, German actor (born 1917)
- April 10 - Carl Schenstrøm, Danish actor (born 1881)
- May 29 - John Barrymore, American actor (born 1882)
- August 18 - Rafaela Ottiano, Italian-born American actress (born 1888)
- October 20 - May Robson, Australian-born American stage & film actress (born 1858)
- October 22 - Olga Svendsen, Danish actress (born 1883)
- November 5 - George M. Cohan, American actor, songwriter, entertainer (born 1878)
- November 9 - Edna May Oliver, American stage & film actress (born 1883)
- November 12 - Laura Hope Crews, American stage & screen actress (born 1879)
- December 12 - Helen Westley, American stage & screen actress (born 1875)
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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)
“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)