Deaths
- 12 February - John Hamilton, Member of Parliament (born 1715)
- 27 May - Lord Charles Townshend, Member of Parliament (born 1769)
- 16 July - George Howard, Army officer and politician (born 1718)
- 21 July - Robert Burns, national poet of Scotland (born 1759)
- 1 August - Robert Pigot, Army officer and Member of Parliament (born 1720)
- 6 August - David Allan, painter (born 1744)
- 1 September - David Murray, 2nd Earl of Mansfield, politician (born 1727)
- October - Thomas Christie, writer (born 1761)
- 12 December - William Wilson, Member of Parliament (born 1720)
- George Dixon, sea captain and explorer (born 1748)
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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)
“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.”
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