Deaths
- January 6 – Victor Fleming, American director and producer (born 1889)
- April 15 – Wallace Beery, American s actor (born 1885)
- April 18 – Will Hay, English comedian, actor and film director (born 1888)
- April 22 – Charles B. Middleton, American actor (born 1874)
- September 14 – Romuald Joubé, French actor (born 1876)
- September 18 – Frank Morgan, American actor (born 1890)
- October 14 – Fritz Leiber, Sr., American actor (born 1882)
- December 16 – Sidney Olcott, Canadian-born American film director (born 1873)
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“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)