Deaths
- January 11 - Kazimierz Zalewski, Polish dramatist, critic and newspaper publisher, 69
- January 31 - Paul Lindau, German dramatist, 79
- May 6 - L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz author, 62 (stroke)
- May 10 - Ferdinando Fontana, Italian journalist, dramatist, and poet, 69
- May 17 - Guido von List, Viennese) poet, dramatist, journalist and occultist writer, 70
- June 14 - Weedon Grossmith, writer, painter, actor and playwright, co-author of Diary of a Nobody, 65
- June 23 - Kolachalam Srinivasa Rao, Indian dramatist, 65
- July 8 - John Fox, Jr., American journalist, novelist, and short story writer, 56 (pneumonia)
- September 12 - Leonid Andreyev, Russian playwright, novelist and short-story writer, 48 (heart failure)
- October 22 - W. N. P. Barbellion, author of the Journal of a Disappointed Man, 30 (multiple sclerosis)
- October 30 - Ella Wheeler Wilcox, author and poet, 68
- November 3 - Abraham Valdelomar, Peruvian poet, journalist, essayist and dramatist, 31 (injuries from accidental fall)
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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)
“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)
“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)