Deaths
- January 28 - Jean Piccard (born 1884), Swiss-born American chemist and explorer.
- April 6 - Otto Struve (born 1897), Russian astronomer.
- May 19 - Walter Russell (born 1871), American polymath.
- August 30 - Marietta Pallis (born 1882), British ecologist.
- October 13 - Alan A. Griffith (born 1893), English stress engineer.
- October 2 - Olga Lepeshinskaya (born 1871), Soviet Lysenkoist biologist.
- October 25 - Karl von Terzaghi (born 1883), Austrian "father of soil mechanics".
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