Deaths
- February 21 - James Lorraine Geddes, songwriter
- February 27 - Alexander Borodin, composer (born 1833)
- March 2 - Wilhelm Troszel, operatic bass and composer (born 1823)
- March 11 - Ludvig Mathias Lindeman, composer (born 1812)
- April 23 - John Ceiriog Hughes, lyricist and collector of folk tunes (born 1832)
- May 12 - Francesco Malipiero, composer (born 1824)
- June 24 - Filippo Filippi, music critic (born 1830)
- July 17 - Louis Mérante, dancer and choreographer (born 1828)
- October 1 - Robert Stoepel, conductor and composer (born 1821)
- October 18 - Matteo Salvi, opera composer (born 1816)
- October 31 - George Alexander Macfarren, composer (born 1813)
- November 2 - Jenny Lind, singer, "the Swedish Nightingale" (born 1820)
- November 18 - Eduard Marxsen, pianist and composer (born 1806)
- December 2 - Thomas Philander Ryder, composer, organist, teacher, conductor, and organ builder (born 1836)
- December 5 - Eliza R. Snow, lyricist (born 1804)
- date unknown - Georg Unger, operatic tenor (born 1837)
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“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.”
—Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)
“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)