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 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)
“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)
“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)