Deaths
- February 8 – Victor Gollancz, publisher
- February 28 – Henry Luce, publisher
- March 7 – Alice B. Toklas, muse of Gertrude Stein
- May 12 – John Masefield, Poet Laureate
- June 4 – J. R. Ackerley, journalist
- June 7 – Dorothy Parker, humorist
- July 22 – Carl Sandburg, historian and poet
- August 2 – Giles Romilly, journalist
- August 9 – Joe Orton, dramatist, murdered by his lover Kenneth Halliwell
- August 29 – Sidney Bradshaw Fay, historian, author
- September 1 – Siegfried Sassoon, poet, author
- September 24 – Robert van Gulik, Judge Dee author
- September 29 - Carson McCullers, novelist
- October 8 – Vernon Watkins, poet
- October 9 – André Maurois, novelist
- October 14 – Marcel Aymé, novelist and children's author
- November 17 – Bo Bergman, poet
- November 30 – Patrick Kavanagh, poet
- unknown date – Christopher Okigbo, Nigerian poet, killed in the Nigerian-Biafran War
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
—Philip Caputo (b. 1941)
“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)
“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)