Deaths
- January 11 - Jean Philibert Damiron, philosopher
- February 24 - Bernhard Severin Ingemann, novelist and poet
- April 6 - Fitz James O'Brien, science fiction pioneer
- May 6 - Henry David Thoreau
- May 25 - Johann Nestroy, dramatist
- November 26 - Julia Pardoe, novelist and historian
- November 30 - James Sheridan Knowles, dramatist and actor
- date unknown - Charlotte Barton, children's author
- date unknown - Thomas Jefferson Hogg, biographer
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“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)