Deaths
- March 15 – Louise Juliana of Nassau, Regent of Bohemia (b. 1576)
- April 10 – Reverend William Brewster, Pilgrim leader (b. 1567)
- April 25 – Chongzhen, last Ming Emperor of China (suicide) (b. 1611)
- July 29 – Pope Urban VIII (b. 1568)
- September 7 – Guido Bentivoglio, Italian statesman and historian (b. 1579)
- September 8
- John Coke, English politician (b. 1563)
- Francis Quarles, English poet (b. 1592)
- October 6 – Elisabeth of Bourbon, queen of Philip IV of Spain (b. 1602)
- November 6 – Thomas Roe, English diplomat (b. c. 1581)
- November 10 – Luís Vélez de Guevara, Spanish writer (b. 1579)
- December 28 – John Bankes, Attorney General and Chief Justice to King Charles I of England (b. 1589)
- December 30 – Jan Baptist van Helmont, Flemish chemist (b. 1577)
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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)
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“This is the 184th Demonstration.
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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)