Deaths
- 1600 - Richard Hooker (theologian)
- 1605 - John Stow
- 1607 - Sir Edward Dyer
- 1612 - Juan de la Cueva; Robert Armin
- 1615 - Mateo Alemán
- 1616 - William Shakespeare; Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra; Francis Beaumont; Richard Hakluyt
- 1621 - Guillaume du Vair
- 1623 - William Camden
- 1624 - Stephen Gosson
- 1625 - John Fletcher; Thomas Lodge
- 1626 - Lancelot Andrewes; Samuel Purchas
- 1627 - Luis de Góngora
- 1631 - Michael Drayton; Guillén de Castro y Bellvis
- 1633 - Abraham Fraunce
- 1634 - George Chapman
- 1635 - Lope de Vega; Thomas Randolph; Richard Corbet; John Hall (son-in-law of Shakespeare)
- 1638 - Robert Aytoun
- 1639 - Juan Ruiz de Alarcón
- 1640 - Philip Massinger; Robert Burton
- 1641 - Augustine Baker
- 1643 - William Cartwright
- 1644 - Luis Vélez de Guevara; Francis Quarles
- 1645 - Francisco de Quevedo; William Lithgow
- 1647 - Francis Meres
- 1648 - Tirso de Molina; Alonso de Castillo Solórzano; George Abbot; Vincent Voiture
- 1650 - Rene Decartes
- 1658 - Baltasar Gracián; Pierre du Ryer
- 1660 - Thomas Urquhart
- 1661 - María de Zayas y Sotomayor
- 1662 - François le Métel de Boisrobert
- 1667 - Georges de Scudéry
- 1672 - Anne Bradstreet; Tanneguy Lefebvre
- 1673 - Molière
- 1674 - Marin le Roy de Gomberville
- 1676 - Hans Jakob Christoph von Grimmelshausen
- 1678 - Andrew Marvell
- 1679 - Thomas Hobbes
- 1681 - Pedro Calderón de la Barca
- 1682 - Thomas Browne
- 1685 - Thomas Otway
- 1688 - John Bunyan; Ralph Cudworth
- 1689 - Aphra Behn
- 1691 - Richard Baxter; John Flavel
- 1696 - Miguel de Molinos; Madame de Sévigné
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“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)
“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.”
—Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)