Deaths
- February 25 - George Minot (born 1885), American physician, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1934
- April 28 - Oakes Ames (born 1874), American botanist.
- September 21 - Arthur Milne (born 1896), British space physicist
- December 11 - Leslie Comrie (born 1893), New Zealand astronomer and computing pioneer.
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
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Of deaths and entrances ...”
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“This is the 184th Demonstration.
...
What we do is not beautiful
hurts no one makes no one desperate
we do not break the panes of safety glass
stretching between people on the street
and the deaths they hire.”
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