Deaths
- January 13 - Ernie Kovacs, 42, American comedian, actor
- April 10 - Michael Curtiz, 75, Hungarian-born director
- April 17 - Louise Fazenda, 66, American actress
- May 14 - Florence Auer, 82, American actress
- June 19 - Frank Borzage, 69, American director, actor
- June 24 - Lucile Watson, 83, Canadian actress
- July 2 - Valeska Suratt, 80, stage & silent screen actress
- August 5 - Marilyn Monroe, 36, American actress
- August 23 - Hoot Gibson, 70, American actor
- October 6 - Tod Browning, 82, American director
- October 26 - Louise Beavers, 60, American actress
- December 15 - Charles Laughton, 63, British actor
- December 28 - Kathleen Clifford, 75, American actress
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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)
“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)