Deaths
- 12 January - James Mason, chess player and writer (born 1849).
- 9 February - Valentine Browne, 4th Earl of Kenmare, peer (born 1825).
- 14 March - George Fisher, Mayor of Wellington, New Zealand (born 1843).
- 6 April - Henry Benedict Medlicott, geologist (born 1829).
- 24 April - Kivas Tully, architect (born 1820).
- 31 May - Michael N. Nolan, U.S. Representative from New York, mayor of Albany (born 1833).
- 27 June - Harold Mahony, tennis player (born 1867) (bicycle accident).
- 15 July - Kevin Izod O'Doherty, transported to Australia in 1849, physician and politician (born 1823).
- 13 September - Patrick Collins, U.S. Representative from Massachusetts and Mayor of Boston (born 1844).
- 19 September - Dr. Thomas John Barnardo, philanthropist (born 1845).
- 31 October - Bryan O'Loghlen, politician in Australia, 13th Premier of Victoria (born 1828).
- 9 December - William Ford, businessman in America, father of Henry Ford (born 1826).
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“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)
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