Deaths
- January 2 - Una Merkel, American actress
- January 14 - Donna Reed, American actress
- February 16 - Howard Da Silva, American actor
- February 17 - Paul Stewart, American actor
- March 10 - Ray Milland, British actor
- March 22 - Olive Deering, American actress
- March 22 - Charles Starrett, American actor
- March 30 - James Cagney, American actor
- April 13 - Stephen Stucker, American actor
- April 23 - Otto Preminger, Austrian born director
- April 26 - Broderick Crawford, Oscar winning American actor
- April 26 - Bessie Love, American actress
- March 15 - Alexandru Giugaru, Romanian actor
- May 23 - Sterling Hayden, American actor
- June 3 - Anna Neagle, English actress
- June 13 - Benny Goodman, American musician, actor
- June 30 - Margalo Gillmore, English actress
- July 25 - Vincente Minnelli, American director
- August 13 - Helen Mack, American actress
- September 27 - Cliff Burton, American musician, Metallica
- October 5 - Hal B. Wallis, American film producer
- October 14 - Keenan Wynn, American film actor
- October 14 - Spec O'Donnell, American film actor
- November 21 - Dar Robinson, American film stuntman
- November 29 - Cary Grant, American actor
- December 13 - Heather Angel, English actress
- December 26 - Elsa Lanchester, English actress
- December 28 - Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian film director
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“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.”
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