Deaths
- February 15 - Sir Owen Richardson (born 1879), English physicist (Nobel Prize in Physics 1928)
- June 9 - Adolf Windaus (born 1876) German chemist (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1928)
- September 30 - Ross Granville Harrison (born 1870), American physiologist
- October 29 - Samuel James Cameron (born 1878), Scottish obstetrician.
- November 15 - C. T. R. Wilson (born 1869), Scottish physicist (Nobel Prize in Physics 1927)
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“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.
...
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)