Deaths
- 9 February - Charles Gavan Duffy, nationalist and Australian colonial politician (born 1816).
- 5 April - Mary Anne Sadlier, novelist (born 1820).
- 24 April - Walter Osborne, impressionist painter (born 1859).
- 27 April - William Travers, lawyer, politician, explorer, and naturalist in New Zealand (born 1819).
- 25 July - John Michael Clancy, Democratic Party United States Representative from New York (born 1837).
- 12 September - Maxwell Henry Close, geologist (born 1822).
- 22 October - William Edward Hartpole Lecky, historian (born 1838).
- 24 October - Rev. James William Adams, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in Afghanistan (1879) (born 1839).
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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)