Deaths
- January 8 - Gale Page, actress
- January 19 - Robert Carson, screenwriter
- January 27 - Louis de Funès, actor
- February 25 - Tennessee Williams, playwright
- March 14 - Maurice Ronet, actor, director, writer
- April 4 - Gloria Swanson, actress
- April 16 - Fifi D'Orsay, actress
- April 23 - Buster Crabbe, actor
- June 12 - Norma Shearer, Academy Award winning actress
- July 5 - Harry James, bandleader who appeared in some films, and was once married to actress Betty Grable
- July 29 - Raymond Massey, actor, father of actor Daniel Massey and actress Anna Massey
- July 29 - David Niven, Academy Award winning actor
- August 3 - Carolyn Jones, actress
- August 5 - Judy Canova, entertainer
- August 29 - Simon Oakland, actor
- October 8 - Joan Hackett, actress
- October 10 - Ralph Richardson, actor, one of the theatrical knights of the English stage
- October 15 - Pat O'Brien, actor
- November 15 - John Le Mesurier, British actor
- November 28 - Johnnie Davis, actor, singer
- November 28 - Christopher George, leading film/television actor
- November 29 - Natalie Wood, actress
- December 5 - Robert Aldrich, director
- December 8 - Slim Pickens, actor
- December 28 - William Demarest, actor
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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)
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hurts no one makes no one desperate
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