Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- January 30 – Justus Friedrich Wilhelm Zachariae (born 1726), German writer, translator and editor and composer
- December 12 – Albrecht von Haller (born 1708), German
- March 2 – Horace Walpole, Earl of Oxford, (born 1717), English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and politician
- Francis Fawkes (born 1720), English poet and translator
- Alexander Sumarokov (born 1717), Russian poet and playwright
- Christoph Friedrich Wedekind (born 1709), German
- Johann Gottlieb Willamov (born 1736), German
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“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)
“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)