1685 - Deaths

Deaths

January 2 – Harbottle Grimston, English politician (b. 1603)
February 6 – King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland (b. 1630)
February 11 – David Teniers III, Flemish painter (b. 1638)
February 24 – Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Carlisle, English politician and military leader (b. 1629)
March 22 – Emperor Go-Sai of Japan (b. 1638)
April – Adriaen van Ostade, Dutch painter and engraver whose subject matter included tavern scenes, peasants drinking and smoking, itinerant musicians, village festivities and quaint village characters (b. 1610)
May 11 – Margaret Wilson and Margaret McLachlan, the Wigtown martyrs
May 26 – Karl II, Elector Palatine (b. 1651)
July 15 – James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, illegitimate son of Charles II of England (beheaded) (b. 1649)
July 28 – Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington, English statesman (b. 1618)
September 1 – Leoline Jenkins, Welsh lawyer and diplomat (b. 1625)
October 12 – Christoph Ignaz Abele, Austrian jurist (b. 1628)
October 30 – Michel le Tellier, French statesman (b. 1603)
December 12 – John Pell, English mathematician (b. 1610)
date unknown – Nalan Xingde, Chinese poet who became a scholar and officer in the Imperial Bodyguard (b. 1655)

Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

“This is the 184th Demonstration.
...
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)

“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)