Deaths
- 2 January - Sir Harbottle Grimston, 2nd Baronet, politician (born 1603)
- 6 February - King Charles II of England (born 1630)
- 24 February - Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Carlisle, politician and military leader (born 1629)
- 14 April - Thomas Otway, dramatist (born 1652)
- 15 July - James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, illegitimate son of Charles II (born 1649)
- 28 July - Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington, statesman (born 1618)
- 12 December - John Pell, mathematician (born 1610)
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“On almost the incendiary eve
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“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)