Deaths
- 29 January - Francis Meres, writer (born 1565)
- 12 March - Sir Matthew Boynton, 1st Baronet, Member of Parliament (born 1591)
- 29 March - Charls Butler, beekeeper and philologist (born 1560)
- 20 April - Sir John Hobart, 2nd Baronet, politician (born 1593)
- 12 June - Thomas Farnaby, grammarian (born c.1575)
- 7 July - Thomas Hooker, religious and colonial leader (born 1586)
- August - Matthew Hopkins, witchfinder-general (year of birth unknown)
- 24 August - Nicholas Stone, sculptor and architect (born 1586)
- October - Lady Anne Stanley, heir to the throne (born 1580)
- Thomas Abington, antiquarian (born 1550)
- Leonard Calvert, colonial governor (born 1606)
- Ferdinando Gorges, colonial entrepreneur (born 1565)
- Elizabeth Raleigh, wife of Walter Raleigh (born 1565)
- John Saltmarsh, clergyman (year of birth unknown)
- Degory Wheare, academic (born 1573)
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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)
“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)