Deaths
- February 24 - Étienne-Louis Malus, French physicist (born 1775)
- May 9 - Charles-Nicolas-Sigisbert Sonnini de Manoncourt, French naturalist (born 1751)
- June 22 - Richard Kirwan, Irish scientist (born 1733)
- July 10 - Carl Ludwig Willdenow, German botanist (born 1765)
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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.”
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