Deaths
- 31 January – A. A. Milne, author (born 1882)
- 25 March – Robert Newton, film actor (born 1905)
- 30 March – Edmund Clerihew Bentley, inventor (born 1875)
- 17 May – Austin Osman Spare, magician (born 1886)
- 18 May – Maurice Tate, cricketer (born 1895)
- 20 May – Max Beerbohm, theatre critic (born 1872)
- 22 June – Walter de la Mare, poet, short story writer and novelist (born 1873)
- 22 September – Frederick Soddy, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1877)
- 16 December – Nina Hamnett, artist (born 1890)
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“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)
“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)