Deaths
- January – Harry Gordon, popular entertainer (born 1893)
- 9 February – John Axon, railwayman (born 1900)
- 16 February – Leslie Hore-Belisha, 1st Baron Hore-Belisha, statesman after whom Belisha beacons are named (born 1893)
- 7 March – Wyndham Lewis, painter and author (born 1882, Canada)
- 21 March – Charles Kay Ogden, linguist, philosopher and writer (born 1889)
- 23 March – Patrick Abercrombie, town planner (born 1879)
- 21 April – John Graham Kerr, embryologist and politician (born 1869)
- 17 June – Dorothy Richardson, feminist writer (born 1873)
- 27 June – Malcolm Lowry, novelist (born 1909)
- 19 August – David Bomberg, painter (born 1890)
- 20 August – Edward Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans, explorer and admiral (born 1880)
- 1 September – Dennis Brain, Horn player (born 1921)
- 14 October – Fred Russell, "The Father of Modern Ventriloquism" (b. 1862)
- 4 November – William Haywood, architect (born 1876)
- 9 December – Llewellyn Henry Gwynne, first bishop of Egypt and Sudan (born 1863)
- 13 December – Michael Sadleir, novelist (born 1888)
- 21 December – Eric Coates, composer (born 1886)
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“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)