Deaths
- January 16 - Carole Lombard, American actress (born 1908)
- January 31 - Rolf Wenkhaus, German actor (born 1917)
- April 10 - Carl Schenstrøm, Danish actor (born 1881)
- May 29 - John Barrymore, American actor (born 1882)
- August 18 - Rafaela Ottiano, Italian-born American actress (born 1888)
- October 20 - May Robson, Australian-born American stage & film actress (born 1858)
- October 22 - Olga Svendsen, Danish actress (born 1883)
- November 5 - George M. Cohan, American actor, songwriter, entertainer (born 1878)
- November 9 - Edna May Oliver, American stage & film actress (born 1883)
- November 12 - Laura Hope Crews, American stage & screen actress (born 1879)
- December 12 - Helen Westley, American stage & screen actress (born 1875)
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“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)