Deaths
- 22 January - Eugène Labiche – French writer (born 1815)
- 29 January - Edward Lear – German writer (born 1812)
- 6 March - Louisa May Alcott – American writer (born 1832)
- 24 March - Vsevolod Mikhailovich Garshin – Russian writer (born 1855)
- 12 May - Bedřich Smetana – Czech composer (born 1824)
- 4 July - Theodor Storm – German writer (born 1817)
- 30 July - Bartley Campbell – American writer (born 1843)
- 11 September - Domingo F. Sarmiento – Argentine writer (born 1811)
- 19 November - Edmond Gondinet – French writer (born 1828)
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“This is the 184th Demonstration.
...
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)
“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)