Deaths
- 3 February - Thomas Mellon, entrepreneur, lawyer, and judge, founder of Mellon Bank (born 1813).
- 23 March - Frederick Falkiner, lawyer, judge and author (born 1831).
- 10 June - John F. Finerty, U.S. Representative from Illinois (born 1846).
- 6 July - Thomas William Moffett, scholar, educationalist and President of Queen's College Galway (born 1820).
- 5 August - Caesar Litton Falkiner, Irish Unionist Party politician, barrister, writer and historian (born 1863).
- 30 August - Lawrence Parsons, 4th Earl of Rosse, eighteenth Chancellor of Trinity College, Dublin (b.(1840).
- 4 November - John Pinkerton, Irish Parliamentary Party MP (born 1845).
- 15 December - Hugh Annesley, 5th Earl Annesley, British military officer and MP (born 1831).
- 19 December - Thomas Cleeve, founder of Condensed Milk Company of Ireland, High Sheriff of Limerick (born 1844).
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“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)
“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)