Deaths
- 30 January - John McDonald, soldier and Congressman in America (born 1837).
- 6 May - Thomas Joseph Carr, second Roman Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne, Australia (born 1839).
- 10 May - Daniel Joseph Sheehan, Royal Naval Air Service and Royal Flying Corps pilot in World War I, killed in action (born 1894).
- 9 June - William Hoey Kearney Redmond, nationalist politician, barrister, brother of John Redmond, killed in Battle of Messines (born 1861).
- 31 July - Francis Ledwidge, poet, killed in action during World War I (born 1887).
- 25 September - Thomas Ashe, took part in the Easter Rising, died following forcible feeding while on hunger strike (born 1885).
- 4 October - Dave Gallaher, rugby player for New Zealand, killed at Passchendaele (born 1873).
- 6 December - James Samuel Emerson, soldier, posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1917 on the Hindenburg Line north of La Vacquerie, France (born 1895).
- 12 December - Charles Christopher Bowen, politician in New Zealand (born 1830).
- 27 December - William John Hennessy, artist (born 1839).
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“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
and the deaths they hire.”
—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)
“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
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