Deaths
- 17 January - Martin Haverty, writer.
- 17 February - William Dowling, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India (born 1825).
- 16 April - John McCaul, educator, theologian, and the second president of the University of Toronto (born 1807).
- 30 April - Edward Hardman, geologist (born 1845).
- 25 August - Matthew Cooke, economic entomologist in California (born 1829).
- 22 November - Ulick Bourke, scholar and writer who founded the Gaelic Union (born 1829).
- 4 December - Mary Frances Clarke, founder of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (born 1803).
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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)