Deaths
- February 10 - Archibald Lampman, poet (born 1861)
- March 16 - Alexander Balloch Grosart, literary editor (born 1827)
- May 1 - Ludwig Büchner, German philosopher (born 1824)
- May 16 - Francisque Sarcey, French journalist and theatre critic (born 1827)
- June 7 - Augustin Daly, dramatist and theatre manager (born 1838)
- June 30 - E. D. E. N. Southworth, novelist (born 1819)
- July 18 - Horatio Alger, Jr., novelist and children's author (born 1832)
- August 27 - Vendela Hebbe, Swedish journalist and novelist (born 1808)
- August 29 - Catharine Parr Traill, English-born author of "Canadiana" (born 1802)
- October 25 - Grant Allen, science writer and novelist (born 1848)
- November 2 - Anna Swanwick, feminist writer (born 1813)
- November 13 - Arthur Giry, historian (born 1848)
- December 22 - Dwight L. Moody, preacher and publisher (born 1837)
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“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.”
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“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.”
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