Deaths
- January 14 - Peter Finch, actor
- January 19 - Yvonne Printemps, French singer, actress
- January 29 - Freddie Prinze, actor/comedian
- March 25 - Nunnally Johnson, director
- April 21 - Gummo Marx, actor/agent
- May 10 - Joan Crawford, actress
- June 2 - Stephen Boyd, actor
- June 3 - Roberto Rossellini, Italian director
- June 5 - Luis César Amadori, Italian/Argentine director
- June 13 - Matthew Garber, British actor
- June 19 - Geraldine Brooks, actress
- August 3 - Alfred Lunt, actor
- August 16 - Elvis Presley, singer/actor
- August 19 - Groucho Marx, comedian
- August 29 - Jean Hagen, actress
- October 14 - Bing Crosby, American singer and actor
- November 9 - Gertrude Astor, actress
- November 30 - Olga Petrova silent film and stage actress
- December 4 - Leila Hyams, actress
- December 25 - Charlie Chaplin, star of silent film
- December 26 - Howard Hawks, director
- December 28 - Charlotte Greenwood, actress
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“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)