Deaths
- 1620
- 1 March - Thomas Campion, poet and composer (born 1567)
- 16 May - William Adams, navigator and samurai (born 1564)
- 1621
- 2 July - Thomas Harriot, astronomer and mathematician (born c. 1560)
- 25 September - Mary Sidney, writer, patroness and translator (born 1561)
- 26 November - Ralph Agas, surveyor (born c. 1540)
- 1622
- 23 January - William Baffin, explorer (born 1584)
- 19 February - Sir Henry Savile, educator (born 1549)
- 1 July - William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle, politician (born 1575)
- 1623
- 8 February - Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, politician (born 1546)
- 4 July - William Byrd, composer (born 1543)
- 21 October - William Wade, statesman and diplomat (born 1546)
- 9 November - William Camden, historian (born 1551)
- 1624
- 13 February - Stephen Gosson, satirist (born 1554)
- 10 November - Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, patron of the theatre (born 1573)
- 14 December - Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, statesman (born 1536)
- 1625
- 27 March - King James I of England (born 1566)
- 5 June - Orlando Gibbons, composer and organist (born 1583)
- August - John Fletcher, writer (born 1579)
- John Florio, linguist and lexicographer (born 1553)
- 1626
- 24 January - Samuel Argall, adventurer and naval officer (born 1580)
- 20 February - John Dowland, composer and lutenist (born 1563)
- 9 April - Francis Bacon, scientist and statesman (born 1561)
- 4 May - Arthur Lake, Bishop of Bath and Wells, bishop and Bible translator (born 1569)
- 13 July - Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, statesman (born 1563)
- 25 September - Lancelot Andrewes, scholar (born 1555)
- 25 November - Edward Alleyn, actor (born 1566)
- 30 November - Thomas Weelkes, English composer (born 1576)
- 8 December - John Davies, poet (born 1569)
- 10 December - Edmund Gunter, mathematician (born 1581)
- 1627
- 19 April - Sir John Beaumont, poet (born 1583)
- 27 June - Sir John Hayward, historian (born c. 1560)
- Thomas Middleton, playwright (born 1580)
- Sir John Suckling, politician (born 1569)
- 1628
- 12 March - John Bull, composer (born c. 1562)
- 29 March - Tobias Matthew, Archbishop of York (born 1546)
- 13 July - Robert Shirley, adventurer (born c. 1581)
- 23 August - George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, statesman (born 1592)
- 30 September - Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, writer (born 1554)
- 1629
- 23 March - Francis Fane, 1st Earl of Westmorland (born c. 1580)
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