Deaths
- 21 January - Anthony O'Grady Lefroy, government official in Western Australia (born 1816).
- 24 January - Margaret Wolfe Hungerford, novelist (born 1855).
- 3 March - Garrett Byrne, Irish nationalist and MP (born 1829).
- 19 March - Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, geographer (born 1810).
- 1 April - William Plunket, 4th Baron Plunket, Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin (born 1828).
- 11 October - Charles W. Jones, lawyer and United States Senator in Florida (born 1834).
- 31 October - Samuel Haughton, scientific writer (born 1821).
- 25 November - John Coleman, United States Marine, recipient of Medal of Honor for his actions in 1871 during the Korean Expedition (born 1847).
- 8 December - Mary O'Connell, nurse during the American Civil War (born 1814).
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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)
“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.”
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“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)