Deaths
- 30 January - John McDonald, soldier and Congressman in America (born 1837).
- 6 May - Thomas Joseph Carr, second Roman Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne, Australia (born 1839).
- 10 May - Daniel Joseph Sheehan, Royal Naval Air Service and Royal Flying Corps pilot in World War I, killed in action (born 1894).
- 9 June - William Hoey Kearney Redmond, nationalist politician, barrister, brother of John Redmond, killed in Battle of Messines (born 1861).
- 31 July - Francis Ledwidge, poet, killed in action during World War I (born 1887).
- 25 September - Thomas Ashe, took part in the Easter Rising, died following forcible feeding while on hunger strike (born 1885).
- 4 October - Dave Gallaher, rugby player for New Zealand, killed at Passchendaele (born 1873).
- 6 December - James Samuel Emerson, soldier, posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1917 on the Hindenburg Line north of La Vacquerie, France (born 1895).
- 12 December - Charles Christopher Bowen, politician in New Zealand (born 1830).
- 27 December - William John Hennessy, artist (born 1839).
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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)
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“This is the 184th Demonstration.
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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)