Deaths
- January 15 - William de Morgan, novelist
- February 16 - Octave Mirbeau, novelist and critic
- April 9
- Edward Thomas, poet and prose writer
- R. E. Vernède, war poet
- April 14 - L. L. Zamenhof, creator of Esperanto
- April 21 - Francis Burnand, dramatist and editor of "Punch"
- July 31 - Francis Ledwidge, war poet
- July 31 - Hedd Wyn, Welsh-language poet
- November 15 - Émile Durkheim, sociologist
- November 18 - Adrien Bertrand, French novelist
- December 15 - Lady Anne Blunt, descendant of Lord Byron and wife of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
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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)
“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)
“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)