Deaths
- 5 March - Thomas Augustine Arne, composer (b. 1710)
- 22 April - James Hargreaves, weaver, carpenter, and inventor (b. 1720)
- 11 May - William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1708)
- 16 May - Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness, diplomat and politician (b. 1718)
- 12 August - Peregrine Bertie, 3rd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, general and politician (b. 1714)
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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)
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
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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)
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