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:
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“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)
“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)