Deaths
- 1502 - Henry Medwall
- 1513 - Robert Fabyan
- 1519 - Anna Bülow
- 1535 - Johannes Secundus (born 1511)
- 1542 - Thomas Wyatt
- 1552 - Alexander Barclay
- 1553 - Hanibal Lucić, Croatian poet and playwright (born c. 1485)
- 1553 - François Rabelais
- 1555 - Polydore Vergil
- 1563 - John Bale
- 1563 - Martynas Mažvydas
- 1566 - Marco Girolamo Vida, Italian poet (born 1485?)
- 1568 - Roger Ascham
- 1570 - Daniele Barbaro (born 1514)
- 1577 - George Gascoigne
- 1586 - Primož Trubar, author of the first printed books in the Slovene language (born 1508)
- 1592 - Robert Greene
- 1593 - Christopher Marlowe
- 1594 - Thomas Kyd
- 1595 - Luis Barahona de Soto
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
—Philip Caputo (b. 1941)
“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)