Deaths
- June 23 - Joseph Prestwich (born 1812), English geologist.
- July 13 - Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz (born 1829), organic chemist.
- August 10 - Otto Lilienthal (born 1848), aviation pioneer.
- September 18 - Hippolyte Fizeau (born 1819), physicist.
- October 21 - James Henry Greathead (born 1844), British civil engineer.
- November 3 - Eugen Baumann (born 1846), chemist.
- November 22 - George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr. (born 1859), American civil engineer.
- December 10 - Alfred Nobel (born 1833), inventor.
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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)
“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)