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:
“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)
“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)
“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)