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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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“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)
“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.”
—Philip Caputo (b. 1941)