Deaths
- January 21 - Cecil B. DeMille, American director & producer
- February 1 - Madame Sul-Te-Wan, actress
- February 4 - Una O'Connor, actress
- March 3 - Lou Costello, comedian and actor, half of Abbott and Costello comedy team
- February 5 - Gwili Andre, actress
- June 16 - George Reeves, actor (Superman)
- June 18 - Ethel Barrymore, actress
- August 6 - Preston Sturges, American director
- October 7 - Mario Lanza, singer/actor
- October 14 - Errol Flynn, actor
- October 23 - Gerda Lundequist, actress
- November 20 – Sylvia Lopez, European actress
- November 25 - Gérard Philipe, French actor
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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)
“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)