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:
“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)
“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)