Deaths
- January 14 - Barry Fitzgerald, 72, Irish actor
- January 22 - Herbert Marshall, 75, British actor
- January 31 - Elizabeth Patterson, 90, American actress
- February 1 - Buster Keaton, 70, American actor and film director
- February 1 - Hedda Hopper, 80, American gossip columnist and former actress
- February 9 - Sophie Tucker, 82, Russian-born American singer and actress
- February 26 - Mientje Kling, 71, Dutch actress
- June 5 - Natacha Rambova, 69, American actress
- June 19 - Ed Wynn, 79, American actor
- July 23 - Montgomery Clift, 45, American actor
- July 23 - Douglass Montgomery, 59, American actor
- August 3 - Lenny Bruce, 40, American satirist, Father of modern stand up
- August 15 - Jan Kiepura, 64, Polish tenor and actor
- August 15 - Seena Owen, 71, American actress
- August 23 - Francis X. Bushman, 83, American actor
- October 13 - Clifton Webb, 76, American actor
- October 16 - George O'Hara, 67, American actor
- October 24 - Hans Dreier, 81, German art director of European and American films
- December 14 - Richard Whorf, 60, American actor and director
- December 15 - Walt Disney, 65, American producer and cartoonist
- September 14 - Nikolay Cherkasov, 63, Soviet actor
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“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)
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
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