Deaths
- 19 January — William Larminie, poet and folklorist (born 1849).
- 23 January — Abraham Boulger, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India (born 1835).
- 23 January — James Pearson, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1858 at Jhansi, India (born 1822).
- 16 March — Frederick William Burton, painter (born 1816).
- 22 March — Thomas Murphy, recipient of the Victoria Cross for bravery at sea in saving life in a storm off the Andaman Islands in 1867 (born 1839).
- 27 April — John Hawkins Hagarty, lawyer, teacher and judge in Canada (born 1816).
- 12 November — Marcus Daly, businessman in America (born 1841).
- 30 November -Oscar Wilde, playwright, novelist, poet (born 1854).
- 14 December — Paddy Ryan, boxer (born 1851).
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“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)
“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)