Deaths
- January 18 - Sydney Greenstreet, English actor (born 1879)
- February 12 - Dziga Vertov, Russian filmmaker (born 1896)
- March 30 - Pauline Brunius, Swedish actress, director and screenwriter (born 1881)
- April 10 - Auguste Lumiere, French film pioneer (born 1862)
- July 24 - Effie Shannon, American stage and film actress (born 1867)
- November 15 - Lionel Barrymore, American actor (1878)
- December 8 - Gladys George, American actress (born 1904)
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“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)