Deaths
- January 22 – Joseph Whitworth (born 1803), mechanical engineer.
- August 15 – Julius von Haast (born 1824), geologist.
- August 19 – Spencer Fullerton Baird (born 1823), ornithologist and ichthyologist.
- August 19 – Alvan Clark (born 1804), telescope manufacturer.
- October 7 (O.S. September 25) – Lev Tsenkovsky (born 1822), biologist.
- October 17 – Gustav Kirchhoff (born 1824), physicist.
- November 18 – Gustav Fechner (born 1801), psychologist.
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“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.”
—Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)
“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)