Deaths
- 2 January - Edward Burnett Tylor, anthropologist (born 1832)
- 25 March - John George Will, Scottish international rugby player (killed in action) (born 1892)
- 2 April - Bryn Lewis, Wales international rugby player (killed in action) (born 1891)
- 9 April - Edward Thomas, poet (killed in action) (born 1878)
- 31 July
- Ellis Humphrey Evans ("Hedd Wyn"), Welsh-language poet (killed in action) (born 1887)
- James Llewellyn Davies, VC recipient (killed in action) (born 1886)
- James Young Milne Henderson, Scottish international rugby player (killed in action) (born 1891)
- Francis Ledwidge, Irish poet (killed in action) (born 1887)
- 15 August - Thomas Crisp, Victoria Cross recipient (born 1876)
- 30 August - Alan Leo, astrologer (born 1860)
- 8 November
- Colin Blythe, cricketer (born 1879)
- Arthur Matthew Weld Downing, astronomer (born 1850)
- 14 December - Phil Waller, Wales and British Lions rugby player (killed in action) (born 1889)
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“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)
“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)