Deaths
- January 26 - Grace Moore, American opera singer and actress
- March 8 - Victor Potel, American actor and comedian
- May 31 - Adrienne Ames, American actress
- June 1 - Anna Hoffman-Uddgren, Swedish director, actress
- June 5 - Nils Olaf Chrisander, Swedish actor, director
- August 30 - Gunnar Sommerfeldt, Danish actor and director
- September 21 - Harry Carey, American actor
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“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)
“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)