Deaths
- January 1 - Maurice Chevalier, French actor/singer
- January 8 - Wesley Ruggles, movie director, producer
- January 17 - Rochelle Hudson, actress
- February 2 - Jessie Royce Landis, actress
- February 7 - Walter Lang, director
- February 19 - John Grierson, Scots documentary filmmaker (b. 1898)
- March 20 - Marilyn Maxwell, actress
- April 5 - Isabel Jewell, actress
- April 5 - Brian Donlevy, actor
- April 25 - George Sanders, British actor (b. 1906)
- April 30 - Gia Scala, actress
- May 3 - Bruce Cabot, actor
- May 15 - Nigel Green, actor
- May 21 - Margaret Rutherford, actress
- July 6 - Brandon De Wilde, actor
- August 7 - Joi Lansing, actress
- October 9 - Miriam Hopkins, actress
- October 16 - Leo G. Carroll, actor (b. 1886)
- October 24 - Claire Windsor, actress (b. 1897)
- November 5 - Reginald Owen, actor (b. 1887)
- November 16 - Vera Karalli, actress
- November 23 - Marie Wilson, actress
- December 9 - Louella Parsons, Hollywood columnist
- December 26 - Harry S. Truman, president/actor
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“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)