Deaths
| Date | Name | Age | Cinematic Notability |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 29 | Jimmy Durante | 86 | US actor and singer |
| February 13 | David Janssen | 48 | US actor |
| February 27 | George Tobias | 78 | US actor (Bewitched and The Waltons) |
| March 5 | Jay Silverheels | 67 | US actor (born in Canada) |
| April 29 | Alfred Hitchcock | 80 | UK-born film director and TV host |
| July 24 | Peter Sellers | 54 | UK comedian and actor |
| August 14 | Dorothy Stratten | 20 | Canadian actress and Playboy model |
| September 12 | Lillian Randolph | 81 | US actress (Amos 'n' Andy) |
| November 7 | Steve McQueen | 50 | US film and television actor (Wanted: Dead or Alive) |
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“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)