Deaths
- April 24 - Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian novelist and creator of Anne of Green Gables, 67
- May 20 - Nini Roll Anker, Norwegian novelist and playwright, 69
- May 26 - Libero Bovio, Neapolitan dialect poet, 58
- June 30 - Léon Daudet, French journalist, son of Alphonse Daudet, 74
- July 20 - Moses Annenberg, newspaper publisher, 65
- September 19 - Condé Nast, magazine publisher, 69
- September 26 - Oskar Kraus, Czech philosopher, 70
- October 14 - Cosmo Hamilton, dramatist and novelist, 72
- October 20 - Friedrich Münzer, German classical scholar, 74
- November 4 - Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson, Greyfriars Bobby author, 79
- December 23 - Konstantin Balmont, Russian Symbolist poet and translator, 75
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“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.”
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“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)