Deaths
- January 16 - Anton Felix Schindler, biographer of Beethoven (born 1795)
- January 29 - Lucy Aikin, historian (born 1781)
- February 2 - Adelaide Anne Procter, poet (born 1825)
- March 16 - Robert Smith Surtees, novelist and sports writer (born 1805)
- May 19 - Nathaniel Hawthorne, novelist (born 1804)
- May 20 - John Clare, poet (born 1793)
- May 26 - Charles Sealsfield, novelist (born 1793)
- July 4 - Thomas Colley Grattan, novelist (born 1792)
- August 7 - Janez Puhar, poet (born 1814)
- September (date unknown) - Antônio Gonçalves Dias, poet (born 1823) (lost at sea)
- September 17 - Walter Savage Landor, poet (born 1775)
- December 6 - Simonas Daukantas, Lithuanian ethnographer and historian (born 1793)
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“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)
“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)