Deaths
- March 24 - Ivan Kramskoi, painter and art critic (b. 1837)
- June 4 - Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse, French sculptor and painter (b. 1824)
- June 5 - Hans von Marées, painter (b. 1837)
- July 8 - John Wright Oakes, landscape painter (b. 1820)
- July 17 - Nicaise de Keyser, painter (b. 1813)
- August 19 - Alvan Clark, American astronomer, telescope maker, portrait painter and engraver (b. 1804)
- December 19
- August Becker, painter (b. 1821)
- François Bonvin, realist painter (b. 1817)
- date unknown
- Giovanni Battista Amendola, sculptor (b. 1848)
- Paul Emile Chappuis, photographer (b. 1816)
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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)
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
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“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)