Deaths
- 16 January - Dudley North, 3rd Baron North, nobleman (born 1581)
- 24 February - Nicholas Lanier, composer (born 1588)
- 30 June - Alexander Brome, poet (born 1620)
- 10 July - John Fell, churchman (born 1625)
- 25 July - Montagu Bertie, 2nd Earl of Lindsey, noble (born 1608)
- 29 October
- Edmund Calamy the Elder, Presbyterian leader (born 1600)
- James Shirley, dramatist (born 1596)
- Sir William Clarke, politician
- Sir Richard Fanshawe, diplomat and translator (born 1608)
- John Holles, 2nd Earl of Clare, noble (born 1595)
- James Howell, writer (born 1594)
- Christopher Myngs, admiral and pirate (born 1625)
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“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)