Deaths
- 7 February - Stephen Gray, dyer, astronomer, and scientist (born 1666)
- 25 March - Nicholas Hawksmoor, architect (born c.1661)
- 7 September - Captain John Porteous, soldier (born c.1695)
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“This is the 184th Demonstration.
...
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)