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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“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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