Deaths
- February 19 - Georgios Papanikolaou (born 1883), Greek American inventor of the Pap smear.
- March 24 - Auguste Piccard (born 1884), Swiss physicist and explorer.
- May 13 - Henry Trendley Dean (born 1893), American dental researcher.
- November 18 - Niels Bohr (born 1885), Danish physicist.
- December 20 - Emil Artin (born 1898), Austrian-born mathematician.
- December 24 - Wilhelm Ackermann (born 1896), German mathematician.
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“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)