Deaths
- January 2. In the village of Drozdowo near Łomża, at 1:05 a.m., dies Roman Dmowski
- February 24. In Warsaw dies Tadeusz Puszczyński, commandant of the Wawelberg Group and the Sarny Fortified Area
- March 8. In Warsaw dies professor Władysław Marian Zawadzki, former Minister of Treasury
- April 2. Walery Sławek commits suicide
- May 24. Professor Aleksander Bruckner dies in Berlin
- July 3. Football player Hubert Gad drowns in a pond in Świętochłowice
- August 17. Wojciech Korfanty dies in Warsaw
- September 9. Józef Czechowicz, avant garde poet, dies in Lublin
- September 10. Władysław Raginis commits suicide at Wizna
- September 18. Following Soviet invasion on Poland, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz commits suicide in the Polesie Voivodeship
- September 20. Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz dies in a skirmish with Soviet forces in Kuty
- September 22. General Józef Olszyna-Wilczyński is murdered by the Red Army soldiers
- October 30. In Konstantynów dies Wacław Gąsiorowski, writer of popular historic novels
- December 14. Wacław Niemojowski, a monarchist politician, dies in Kalisz
- December 24. Professor Antoni Meyer dies in Sachsenhausen concentration camp
- December 28. Stanisław Estreicher dies in Sachsenhausen concentration camp
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
—Philip Caputo (b. 1941)
“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)