Deaths
- January 16 - Madeleine de Souvré, marquise de Sablé, salon hostess and writer
- April 12 - Sir Thomas Stanley, poet, author and translator (born 1625)
- May 4 - Abraham Woodhead, Catholic writer (born 1609)
- August 16 - Andrew Marvell, poet (born 1621)
- August 17 - Guillaume Herincx, Belgian Franciscan theologian (born 1621)
- November 21 - Robert Thoroton, antiquary (born 1623)
- date unknown
- Theophilus Gale, theologian (born 1628)
- Jean de Launoy, French historian (born 1603)
- probable - Richard Flecknoe (born c.1600)
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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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“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.”
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