Deaths
- January 26 - Bill Barrett, 50, outfielder for the Philadelphia Athletics, Chicago White Sox, Boston Red Sox and Washington Senators between 1921 and 1930.
- February 2 - Bill Sowders, 86, pitcher for three seasons from 1888 to 1890.
- February 6 - Gabby Street, 68, manager of the Cardinals' 1931 World Series champions, previously a catcher for Hall of Fame pitcher Walter Johnson.
- February 20 - Marty Shay, 54, infielder who played for the Chicago Cubs (1916) and the Boston Braves (1924).
- February 25 - Smokey Joe Williams, 64, fireballing Negro Leagues pitcher.
- March 20 - Roscoe Coughlin, 83, pitcher for two seasons in the NL, 1890-1891.
- March 25 - Eddie Collins, 63, Hall of Fame second baseman and a career .333 hitter for the Athletics and White Sox, the 1914 AL MVP, the sixth player to make 3000 hits, and second to Ty Cobb in career stolen bases.
- May 26 - George Winter, pitcher who won 82 games for the Boston Americans/Red Sox from 1901 to 1908, and the only member both of the original 1901 and 1908 teams.
- July 9 - Harry Heilmann, 56, right fielder and four-time American League batting champion who hit .342 in his career, primarily with the Detroit Tigers.
- August 1 - Harry Curtis, 68, catcher for the 1907 New York Giants.
- August 2 - Guy Cooper, 68, pitcher for the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox in the 1910s.
- August 4 - Tony Tonneman, 69, catcher who played briefly for the 1911 Boston Red Sox.
- August 10 - Win Kellum, 75, who in 1901 became the first Opening Day starting pitcher in Boston American League franchise's history.
- September 16 - Bill Klem, 77, named "father of baseball umpires", who worked in a record 18 World Series during a 37-year career, and introduced the inside chest protector.
- October 27 - John Brock, 55, backup catcher for the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1917 and 1918 seasons.
- November 18 - Wally Mayer, 61, catcher who played from 1911 through 1919 for the Chicago White Sox, Boston Red Sox and St. Louis Browns.
- November 19 - Marty Griffin, 50, pitcher for the 1928 Boston Red Sox.
- November 26 - Pete Hill, 71, baseball's first great African American outfielder.
- December 5 - Shoeless Joe Jackson, 63, a career .356 hitter who was the most prominent of the eight players banned from baseball after the Black Sox scandal. He is the first of those eight to die.
- December 8 - Bobby Lowe, 86, second baseman for multiple Boston champions in the 1890s.
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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)
“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)
“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)