Deaths
- January 18 - Sydney Greenstreet, English actor (born 1879)
- February 12 - Dziga Vertov, Russian filmmaker (born 1896)
- March 30 - Pauline Brunius, Swedish actress, director and screenwriter (born 1881)
- April 10 - Auguste Lumiere, French film pioneer (born 1862)
- July 24 - Effie Shannon, American stage and film actress (born 1867)
- November 15 - Lionel Barrymore, American actor (1878)
- December 8 - Gladys George, American actress (born 1904)
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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)
“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)