Deaths
- 14 March - George Wade, military leader (born 1673, Ireland)
- 12 April - William Kent, architect, landscape architect and furniture designer (born c. 1685)
- 12 May - Thomas Lowndes, astronomer (born 1692)
- 27 August - James Thomson, poet (born 1700)
- 6 September - Edmund Gibson, jurist (born 1669)
- 12 September - Anne Bracegirdle, actress (born c.1671)
- 21 September - John Balguy, philosopher (born 1686)
- October - Donald Cameron of Lochiel (born 1700)
- 25 November - Isaac Watts, hymn writer (born 1674)
- 2 December - Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, politician (born 1662)
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“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)
“On almost the incendiary eve
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“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)