Deaths
- February 2 - George Abbot, Puritan writer (born c.1603)
- March 12 - Tirso de Molina, dramatist (born 1571)
- May 26 - Vincent Voiture, poet (born 1597)
- August 20 - Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury (born 1583)
- September 1 - Marin Mersenne, theologian and philosopher (born 1588)
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“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
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The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
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