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:
“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)
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“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)