Deaths
- January 18 - Rudyard Kipling, British writer and Nobel Laureate (1907) (born 1865)
- February 8 - Rahel Sanzara, German dancer, actress and novelist (born 1894; cancer)
- February 23 - Lidia Veselitskaya (V. Mikulich), Russian novelist, short story writer, memoirist, and translator (born 1857)
- March 1 - Mikhail Kuzmin, Russian poet, musician and novelist (born 1872)
- March 16 - Marguerite Durand, French actress and journalist (born 1864)
- April 30 - A. E. Housman, poet (born 1859)
- June 11 - Robert E. Howard, American fantasy writer (born 1906; suicide)
- June 12 - M. R. James, writer of ghost stories (born 1862)
- June 14
- G. K. Chesterton, journalist, poet, critic and Christian apologist (born 1874)
- Maxim Gorky, Russian dramatist (born 1868)
- August 15 - Grazia Deledda, Sardinian writer and Nobel Laureate (1926) (born
- August 19 - Federico García Lorca, dramatist and poet (born 1898; shot by Nationalist militia)
- November 12 - Stefan Grabiński, Polish horror writer ("the Polish Poe"; born 1887)
- December 10 - Luigi Pirandello, dramatist and novelist (born 1867)
- December 28 - John Cornford, Communist poet (born 1915; killed in Spanish Civil War, circumstances uncertain)
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“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)
“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.”
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