Deaths
- January 12 - Agatha Christie, writer
- January 23 - Paul Robeson, actor, singer
- February 11 - Lee J Cobb, actor
- February 12 - Sal Mineo, actor
- February 26 - Frieda Inescort, actress
- March 14 - Busby Berkeley, director
- March 17 - Luchino Visconti, Italian theatre and cinema director
- April 5 - Howard Hughes, American director, producer, editor
- April 26 - Sid James, actor
- June 5 - Violet Wilkey, actress
- June 6 - Victor Varconi, actor
- June 9 - Sybil Thorndike, actress
- August 6 - William Mervyn, actor
- October 14 - Edith Evans, actress
- November 15 - Jean Gabin, actor
- November 28 - Rosalind Russell, actress
- December 12 - Jack Cassidy, 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)
“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)
“Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
—Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)