Deaths
- January 27 - Adam Sedgwick (born 1785), geologist.
- February 1 - Matthew Fontaine Maury (born 1806), oceanographer.
- April 18 - Justus von Liebig (born 1803), chemist.
- March 30 - Bénédict Morel (born 1809), psychiatrist.
- September 15 - Alexei Pavlovich Fedchenko (born 1844), naturalist.
- December 14 - Louis Agassiz (born 1807), zoologist and geologist.
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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.”
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