Deaths
- January 2 - James White, World War I flying ace (b.1893)
- January 6 - Samuel McLaughlin, businessman and philanthropist (b.1871)
- April 7 - Woodrow Stanley Lloyd, politician and 8th Premier of Saskatchewan (b.1913)
- August 20 - A. M. Klein, poet, journalist, novelist, short story writer and lawyer (b.1909)
- October 31 - Bill Durnan, ice hockey player (b.1916)
- December 27 - Lester B. Pearson, politician, 14th Prime Minister of Canada, diplomat and 1957 Nobel Peace Prize recipient (b.1897)
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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)
“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)
“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)