Deaths
- January 20 - Johnny Weissmuller, Austro-Hungarian-born American actor
- January 29 - Frances Goodrich, American screenwriter
- February 15 - Ethel Merman, American singer, actress
- March 1 - Jackie Coogan, American actor
- March 5 - William Powell, American actor
- March 24 - Sam Jaffe, American actor
- April 1 - George Glass, American producer, publicist
- May 16 - Andy Kaufman, American actor, comedian
- May 21 - Andrea Leeds, American actress
- May 21 - Ann Little, American actress
- June 18 - Luis Moglia Barth, Argentine director
- July 25 - Akihiko Hirata, Japanese actor
- July 27 - James Mason, English actor
- August 4 - Mary Miles Minter, American actress
- August 5 - Richard Burton, Welsh actor
- August 29 - Pina Menichelli, Italian actress
- September 17 - Richard Basehart, American actor
- September 25 - Walter Pidgeon, Canadian actor
- October 21 - François Truffaut, French film director
- October 23 - Oskar Werner, Austrian actor
- October 25 - Pascale Ogier, French actress
- December 24 - Peter Lawford, English-born American actor
- December 28 - Sam Peckinpah, American director
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“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)
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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
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