Deaths
- January 20 – Isaac Ambrose, Puritan writer (born 1604)
- July 16 – Andreas Gryphius, German lyric poet and dramatist (born 1616)
- August 23 - Jean Bagot, Jesuit theologian (born 1591)
- November 18 – Nikola Zrinski, Croatian and Hungarian military leader, statesman and poet (born 1620)
- date unknown
- Bihari, poet (born 1600)
- Qian Qianyi, Chinese poet and social historian (born 1582)
- probable
- James Heath, Royalist historian (born 1629)
- Henry Robinson, merchant and writer (born c.1604)
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“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.”
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