Deaths
- January 15 – Paolo Sarpi, theologian (b. 1552)
- February 8 – Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, English politician (b. 1546)
- February – Malcolm Macfie, last chief of the Scottish clan Clan Macfie
- March 7 – Luís Mendes de Vasconcellos, 55th Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller (b. c.1542)
- March 25 – Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, vicomte de Turenne, duc de Bouillon (b. 1555)
- April 19 – Uesugi Kagekatsu, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1556)
- June 16 – Christian, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Wolfenbüttel, German Protestant military leader (b. 1599)
- July 4 – William Byrd, English composer (b. 1543)
- July 8 – Pope Gregory XV (b. 1554)
- August 6 – Anne Hathaway, Shakespeare's wife
- October 21 – William Wade, English statesman and diplomat (b. 1546)
- November 9 – William Camden, English historian (b. 1551)
- November 11 – Philippe de Mornay, French writer (b. 1549)
- November 12 – Josaphat Kuncevyc, Lithuanian archbishop (b. c. 1582)
- date unknown – Andrea Andreani, Italian engraver (b. 1540)
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“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)
“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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