Deaths
- January 12 - Wilhelm Friedrich Benedikt Hofmeister (born 1824), German botanist.
- February 8 - Charles Wilkes (died 1798), American navigator.
- June 3 - Ludwig von Köchel (born 1800), Austrian musicologist and botanist.
- September 17 - H. Fox Talbot (born 1800), English pioneer of photography.
- September 23 - Urbain Le Verrier (born 1811), French astronomer.
- September 26 - Hermann Günther Grassmann (born 1809), German mathematician.
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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)
“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)