Deaths
- January 4 - Charlotte Lennox, English novelist & playwright
- January 11 - James Tytler, editor of Encyclopaedia Britannica
- February 6 - Joseph Priestley, English natural philosopher and theologian (born 1733)
- February 12 - Immanuel Kant, German philosopher (born 1724)
- April 3 - Jędrzej Kitowicz, Polish historian and diarist (born c.1727)
- April 27 - Jonathan Boucher, philologist
- May 3 - Celestyn Czaplic, Polish poet and politician
- November 5 - Betje Wolff, Dutch novelist (born 1738)
- November 23 - Richard Graves, poet and novelist
- December 9 - Wilhelm Abraham Teller, theologian
- December - John Boydell, publisher
- date unknown
- Samuel Ayscough, librarian and indexer (born 1745)
- Jean-Louis de Lolme, Swiss political theorist (born 1741)
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“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.”
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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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