Deaths
- January 13 – John H. D. Anderson, Scottish scientist and inventor (b. 1726)
- February 23 – Jean-Nicolas Stofflet, French royalist general (executed) (b. 1751)
- March 6 – Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer (b. 1713)
- March 19 – Hugh Palliser, British naval officer and administrator (b. 1722)
- May 12 – Johann Peter Uz, German poet (b. 1720)
- May 29 – Carl Fredrik Pechlin, Swedish politician (b. 1720)
- June 6 – Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois, French revolutionary (b. 1749)
- June 11 – Samuel Whitbread, English brewer and politician (b. 1720)
- June 21 – Richard Gridley, American Revolutionary soldier (b. 1710)
- June 26 – David Rittenhouse, American astronomer, inventor, mathematician, surveyor, scientific instrument craftsman, and public official. (b. 1732)
- June 30 – Abraham Yates, American Continental Congressman (b. 1724)
- July 16 – George Howard, British field marshal (b. 1718)
- July 21 – Robert Burns, Scottish poet (b. 1759)
- August 1 – Robert Pigot, British army officer (b. 1720)
- August 21 – John McKinly, American physician and President of Delaware (b. 1721)
- September 21 – François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers, French revolutionary general (killed in battle) (b. 1769)
- October 7 – Thomas Reid, Scottish philosopher (b. 1710)
- November 6 – Catherine the Great of Russia (b. 1729)
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
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What we do is not beautiful
hurts no one makes no one desperate
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—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)