Deaths
- January 17 - Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician (born 1718)
- February 12 - Lazzaro Spallanzani, Italian physiologist (born 1729)
- February 19 - Jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician and physicist (born 1733)
- August 2 - Jacques Étienne Montgolfier, French inventor (born 1745)
- August 25 - John Arnold, English watchmaker (born 1736)
- October 6 - William Withering, English physician, discoverer of digitalis (born 1741)
- December 6 - Joseph Black, Scottish chemist and physicist (born 1728)
- December 31 - Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, French naturalist (born 1716)
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“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)
“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)