Deaths
- 10 January — Philip Cross, army surgeon, hanged in Cork Jail for the murder of his wife.
- 12 May — John Joseph Lynch, Bishop of Toronto (born 1816).
- October — Frank O'Meara, artist (born 1853).
- 22 November — John McGovern, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Delhi, India (born 1825).
- 1 December — John Divane, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Delhi, India (born 1822).
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)