Deaths
- January 7 - Michel Auclair, actor (b. 1922)
- January 7 - Trevor Howard, actor
- January 25 - Colleen Moore, actress
- February 1 - Heather O'Rourke, actress
- March 6 - Jeanne Aubert, French actress
- April 21 - I. A. L. Diamond, screenwriter
- April 15 - Kenneth Williams, actor
- May 30 - Ella Raines, actress
- July 12 - Joshua Logan, director
- July 25 - Judith Barsi, actress
- August 4 - Florence Eldridge, actress
- September 5 - Gert Fröbe, actor
- October 1 - Lucien Ballard, cinematographer
- October 27 - Charles Hawtrey, actor
- October 31 - John Houseman, actor
- November 27 - John Carradine, actor
- December 27 - Hal Ashby, 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.”
—Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“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)