Deaths
- 19 March - Patrick Walsh, journalist, politician and mayor of Augusta, Georgia (born 1840).
- 16 May - Frederick McCoy, palaeontologist and museum administrator in Australia (born 1817).
- 5 June - Margaret Anna Cusack, nun, writer and founder of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace (born 1832).
- 18 October - Eugene O'Growney, priest and scholar (born 1863).
- 17 December - Walter Shanly, civil engineer, author, businessman and politician in Canada (born 1817).
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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)
“This is the 184th Demonstration.
...
What we do is not beautiful
hurts no one makes no one desperate
we do not break the panes of safety glass
stretching between people on the street
and the deaths they hire.”
—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)
“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)