Deaths
- January 14 - Douglas Sirk, director
- January 15 - Ray Bolger, actor, singer, dancer
- February 27 - Joan Greenwood, actress
- March 3 - Danny Kaye, actor
- March 21 - Robert Preston, actor, singer
- May 14 - Rita Hayworth, actress
- June 1 - Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, director
- June 22 - Fred Astaire, actor, singer, dancer
- July 3 - Viola Dana, actress
- July 7 - Hannelore Schroth, actress
- July 31 - Joseph E. Levine, producer
- August 1 - Pola Negri, actress
- August 17 - Clarence Brown, director
- August 28 - John Huston, actor, director
- August 29 - Lee Marvin, actor
- September 4 - Richard Marquand, director
- September 13 - Mervyn LeRoy, director
- September 23 - Bob Fosse, director and choreographer
- September 25 - Mary Astor, actress
- September 25 - Emlyn Williams, actor
- October 2 - Madeleine Carroll, actress
- October 13 - Kishore Kumar, actor, singer
- December 4 - Rouben Mamoulian, director
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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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