Deaths
- June 23 - Joseph Prestwich (born 1812), English geologist.
- July 13 - Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz (born 1829), organic chemist.
- August 10 - Otto Lilienthal (born 1848), aviation pioneer.
- September 18 - Hippolyte Fizeau (born 1819), physicist.
- October 21 - James Henry Greathead (born 1844), British civil engineer.
- November 3 - Eugen Baumann (born 1846), chemist.
- November 22 - George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr. (born 1859), American civil engineer.
- December 10 - Alfred Nobel (born 1833), inventor.
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“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)
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
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“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)