Deaths
- February 2 - Guillaume François Antoine, Marquis de l'Hôpital, French mathematician (born 1661)
- March 17 - Menno, Baron van Coehoorn, Dutch military engineer (born 1641)
- April 15 - Johann van Waveren Hudde, Dutch mathematician (born 1628)
- July 7 - Pierre-Charles Le Sueur, French fur trader and explorer (born c.1657)
- November 20 - Charles Plumier, French botanist (born 1646)
- Paolo Falconieri, Florentine polymath (born 1638)
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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)
“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)