Deaths
- February 2 - Guillaume François Antoine, Marquis de l'Hôpital, French mathematician (born 1661)
- March 17 - Menno, Baron van Coehoorn, Dutch military engineer (born 1641)
- April 15 - Johann van Waveren Hudde, Dutch mathematician (born 1628)
- July 7 - Pierre-Charles Le Sueur, French fur trader and explorer (born c.1657)
- November 20 - Charles Plumier, French botanist (born 1646)
- Paolo Falconieri, Florentine polymath (born 1638)
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“This is the 184th Demonstration.
...
What we do is not beautiful
hurts no one makes no one desperate
we do not break the panes of safety glass
stretching between people on the street
and the deaths they hire.”
—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)
“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)
“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)