Deaths
- February 20 - Clarence Nash, voice actor
- March 21 - Michael Redgrave, actor, father of actresses Vanessa Redgrave & Lynn Redgrave
- April 23 - Kent Smith, actor
- May 16 - Margaret Hamilton, actress, Wicked Witch in The Wizard of Oz
- May 22 - Wolfgang Reitherman, director, 101 Dalmatians
- August 8 - Louise Brooks, actress
- August 13 - Gale Sondergaard, actress
- August 28 - Ruth Gordon, actress / writer
- September 27 - Lloyd Nolan, actor
- October 2 - Rock Hudson, actor
- October 10 - Yul Brynner, actor
- October 10 - Orson Welles, actor / director
- November 1 - Phil Silvers, actor
- November 15 - Dimitar Panov, actor / director
- December 12 - Anne Baxter, actress
- December 26 - Margarete Schön, actress
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“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.”
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