Deaths
- January 14 – Dorothea Mackellar, poet
- April 16 – Edna Ferber
- April 25 – Donald Davidson
- May 1 – Harold Nicolson, biographer and husband of Vita Sackville-West
- May 30 – Martin Noth, Hebraist
- June 1 – Helen Keller
- October 13 – Sir Stanley Unwin, publisher
- October 30 – Conrad Richter, novelist
- November 17 – Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast author
- November 25 – Upton Sinclair
- December 5 – Anna Kavan
- December 20 – John Steinbeck
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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.
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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)