Deaths
- 19 March - Patrick Walsh, journalist, politician and mayor of Augusta, Georgia (born 1840).
- 16 May - Frederick McCoy, palaeontologist and museum administrator in Australia (born 1817).
- 5 June - Margaret Anna Cusack, nun, writer and founder of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace (born 1832).
- 18 October - Eugene O'Growney, priest and scholar (born 1863).
- 17 December - Walter Shanly, civil engineer, author, businessman and politician in Canada (born 1817).
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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)
“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)
“This is the 184th Demonstration.
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What we do is not beautiful
hurts no one makes no one desperate
we do not break the panes of safety glass
stretching between people on the street
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