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)
“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)
“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)