Deaths
- February 20 - Frances Norton, Lady Norton, religious poet and prose writer (born c.1644)
- April 21 - Daniel Defoe (born c.1660)
- May 11 - Mary Astell, English feminist (born 1666)
- June 20 - Ned Ward, wit and essayist (born c.1660)
- December 26 - Antoine Houdar de la Motte, French dramatist (born 1672)
- date unknown - Mohammed ibn Zakri al-Fasi, Moroccan poet, mystic, grammarian and theologian (date of birth unknown)
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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)
“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)
“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)