Deaths
- February 11 - Ernest Jones (born 1879), Welsh psychoanalyst
- April 16 - Rosalind Franklin (born 1920), English crystallographer
- August 14 - Frédéric Joliot-Curie (born 1900), French physicist (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1935)
- August 27 - Ernest Lawrence (born 1901), American physicist (Nobel Prize in Physics 1932)
- October 2 - Marie Stopes (born 1880), Scottish-born paleobotanist and pioneer of birth control
- December 12 - Milutin Milanković (born 1879), Serbian geophysicist
- December 15 - Wolfgang Pauli (born 1900), Austrian theoretical physicist
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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)
“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)
“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)