Deaths
- March 27 - Wilhelm Beer (born 1797), astronomer.
- April 9 - William Prout (born 1785), chemist.
- May 10 - Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (born 1778), chemist and physicist.
- December 4 - William Sturgeon (born 1783), inventor.
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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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“I sang of death but had I known
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