Deaths
- 8 January – John Dalrymple, 1st Earl of Stair, Scottish politician (born 1648)
- 20 January – Humphrey Hody, English theologian (born 1659)
- 17 June – Antonio Verrio, painter (born 1639, Italy)
- 23 June – John Mill, English theologian (born c. 1645)
- 18 August – William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, English soldier and statesman (born 1640)
- 15 September – George Stepney, English poet and diplomat (born 1663)
- September 23 – John Tutchin, radical Whig controversialist, gadfly, journalist and poet (born c. 1661)
- 22 October – Sir Cloudesley Shovell, English admiral (born 1650)
- 1 December – Jeremiah Clarke, English composer (born 1674)
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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)
“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)