Deaths
- January 11 – Charles W. Goddard, American playwright & screenwriter (born 1879)
- March 6 - Ivor Novello, British actor, singer & composer (born 1893)
- March 25 - Oscar Micheaux, African American pioneer filmmaker & author (born 1884)
- April 4 - Al Christie, Canadian-born early Hollywood director/producer (born 1881)
- June 6 - Olive Tell, American actress (born 1894)
- June 9 - Mayo Methot, American actress (born 1904)
- July 23 - Robert J. Flaherty, American pioneer documentary filmmaker (born 1884)
- August 28 - Robert Walker, American actor (born 1918)
- August 30 - Konstantin Märska, Estonian cinematographer (born 1896)
- September 7 - Maria Montez, Dominican-born actress (born 1912)
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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 deaththat is, they attempt suicidetwice as often as men, though men are more successful because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
—Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)
“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)
“This is the 184th Demonstration.
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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.”
—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)