Deaths
- 9 February — Peter Lalor, leader of the Eureka Stockade rebellion in Australia (born 1827).
- 29 February — Richard Pigott, newspaper editor.
- 16 March — Hans Crocker, lawyer and Wisconsin politician (born 1815).
- 13 April — Thomas Lane, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1860 at the Taku Forts, China (born 1836).
- 10 May — Edward Jennings, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India (b. c.1820).
- 8 June — Gerard Manley Hopkins, English Jesuit poet and scholar (born 1844).
- 19 July — Patrick Green, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Delhi, India (born 1824).
- 6 October — Hans Garrett Moore, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1877 at Komgha, South Africa (born 1830).
- 21 October — John Ball, politician, naturalist and Alpine traveller (born 1818).
- 18 November — William Allingham, poet.
- 7 December — John Tuigg, third Roman Catholic Bishop of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (born 1828).
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“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)