Deaths
- 6 February – George VI (born 1895)
- 4 March – Charles Scott Sherrington, physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1857)
- 15 March – Nevil Sidgwick, chemist (born 1873)
- 21 April – Sir Stafford Cripps, Chancellor of the Exchequer (born 1889)
- 6 September – Gertrude Lawrence, actress (born 1898)
- 29 September – John Cobb, racing car and motorboat driver (born 1899)
- 30 September – Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor, businessman and politician (born 1879)
- 23 October – Windham Wyndham-Quin, 5th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, politician (born 1857)
- 28 October – William Morris Hughes, Welsh-descended Prime Minister of Australia (born 1862)
- 15 December – Sir William Goscombe John, sculptor (born 1860)
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“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)