Deaths
- January 5 - Sally Eilers, actress
- January 29 - Tim McCoy, cowboy actor, soldier
- March 12 - John Cazale, actor
- March 25 - Hanna Ralph, actress
- March 24 - Leigh Brackett, science fiction writer and screenwriter (The Big Sleep)
- August 24 - Louis Prima, bandleader, voice actor ("King Louie of the Apes" in The Jungle Book)
- August 26 - Charles Boyer, actor
- August 28 - Robert Shaw, actor
- September 3 - Karin Molander, actress
- September 9 - Jack Warner, Hollywood studio founder
- September 30 - Edgar Bergen, actor
- October 16 - Dan Dailey, actor
- October 19 - Gig Young, 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)
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)