Deaths
- 5 March - Thomas Augustine Arne, composer (b. 1710)
- 22 April - James Hargreaves, weaver, carpenter, and inventor (b. 1720)
- 11 May - William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1708)
- 16 May - Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness, diplomat and politician (b. 1718)
- 12 August - Peregrine Bertie, 3rd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, general and politician (b. 1714)
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“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“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.”
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“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
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