Deaths
- February 6 - Joseph Priestley, chemist (born 1733)
- August 30 - Thomas Percival, reforming physician and medical ethicist (born 1740)
- September 20 - Pierre Méchain, astronomer (born 1744)
- October 2 - Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, engineer (born 1725)
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“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!”
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