Deaths
- January 20 - James McKeen Cattell (born 1860), American psychologist.
- March 5 - Ernst Cohen (born 1869), Dutch Jewish chemist (in Auschwitz concentration camp).
- March - John R.F. Jeffreys (born 1918), British mathematician and cryptanalysist.
- November 2 - Thomas Midgley, Jr. (born 1889), American chemist and inventor.
- November 22 - Sir Arthur Eddington (born 1882), English astrophysicist.
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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.”
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“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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