Deaths
- January 3 - Jaroslav Hašek, Czech novelist (born 1883)
- January 9 - Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand writer (born 1888)
- February 1 - Ernst Troeltsch, German theologian (born 1865)
- February 8 - Bernard Bosanquet, English philosopher & political theorist (born 1848)
- March 29 - J. Smeaton Chase, English–American author and photographer (born 1864
- June 10 -
- Louis Couperus, Dutch novelist & poet (born 1863)
- Pierre Loti, French novelist & travel writer (born 1850)
- June 22 - Morris Rosenfeld, Yiddish poet (born 1862)
- June 24 - Edith Södergran, Finnish-Swedish poet (born 1892)
- August 24 - Kate Douglas Wiggin, American children's author (born 1856)
- October 6 - Oscar Browning, English historian (born 1837)
- December 1 - Virginie Loveling, Flemish poet & novelist (born 1836)
- December 4 - Maurice Barrès, French novelist & journalist (born 1862)
- date unknown
- Henry Bradley, philologist and lexicographer (born 1845)
- George Wharton James, journalist (born 1858)
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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)
“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)
“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)