Deaths
- January 13 - Blanche Ring, 89, American singer and actress
- February 2 - Anna May Wong, 56, American actress
- February 17 - Nita Naldi, 63, American actress
- March 6 - George Formby, 56, British actor, entertainer
- March 12 - Belinda Lee, 25, British actress
- May 4 - Anita Stewart, 66, American actress
- May 13 - Gary Cooper, 60, American actor
- May 22 - Joan Davis, 53, American actress
- June 17 - Jeff Chandler, 42, American actor
- August 4 - Maurice Tourneur, 88, French film director
- August 17 - Violet Kemble-Cooper, 75, British actress
- August 27 - Gail Russell, 36, American actress
- August 30 - Charles Coburn, 84, American actor
- September 10 - Leo Carrillo, 81, American actor
- September 22 - Marion Davies, 64, American actress
- October 11 - Chico Marx, 74, American actor, member of the Marx Brothers
- October 13 - Maya Deren, 44, American experimental filmmaker
- October 18 - Tsuru Aoki, 69, Japanese-born American actress
- October 22 - Joseph Schenck, 82, Russian-born American pioneer motion picture executive
- November 15 - Elsie Ferguson, 78, American stage and film actress
- November 24 - Ruth Chatterton, 67, American actress
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
—Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)
“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)