Deaths
- 22 January - Eugène Labiche – French writer (born 1815)
- 29 January - Edward Lear – German writer (born 1812)
- 6 March - Louisa May Alcott – American writer (born 1832)
- 24 March - Vsevolod Mikhailovich Garshin – Russian writer (born 1855)
- 12 May - Bedřich Smetana – Czech composer (born 1824)
- 4 July - Theodor Storm – German writer (born 1817)
- 30 July - Bartley Campbell – American writer (born 1843)
- 11 September - Domingo F. Sarmiento – Argentine writer (born 1811)
- 19 November - Edmond Gondinet – French writer (born 1828)
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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)
“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!”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)