Deaths
- 6 January - Richard Hoare, goldsmith and banker (born 1648)
- 1 February - Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury, politician (born 1660)
- 18 February - Pierre Antoine Motteux, dramatist (born 1663, France)
- 30 July - William Penn, Quaker and founder of the Pennsylvania colony (born 1644)
- 22 November - Blackbeard, pirate (born c.1680)
- 6 December - Nicholas Rowe, poet and dramatist (born 1674)
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“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)
“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)