Deaths
- January 23 – Robert Craufurd, British general (mortally wounded in battle) (b. 1764)
- March 7 – Isaac Swainson, English botanist (b. 1746)
- April 20 – George Clinton, 4th Vice President of the United States (b. 1739)
- April 25 – Edmond Malone, Irish scholar (b. 1741)
- May 11 – Spencer Perceval, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (assassinated) (b. 1762)
- May 12 – Martha Ballard, American diarist and midwife
- May 18 – John Bellingham, British assassin of Spencer Perceval (b. 1769)
- September 19 – Mayer Amschel Rothschild, German banker (b. 1744)
- September 21 – Emanuel Schikaneder German dramatist, actor, and singer (b. 1751)
- October 13 – Isaac Brock, British general (killed in battle) (b. 1769)
- December 20 – Sacagawea, Shoshone guide
- December 24 – George Beck, American artist and poet (b. 1749)
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“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)
“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)