Deaths
- 1502 - Henry Medwall
- 1513 - Robert Fabyan
- 1519 - Anna Bülow
- 1535 - Johannes Secundus (born 1511)
- 1542 - Thomas Wyatt
- 1552 - Alexander Barclay
- 1553 - Hanibal Lucić, Croatian poet and playwright (born c. 1485)
- 1553 - François Rabelais
- 1555 - Polydore Vergil
- 1563 - John Bale
- 1563 - Martynas Mažvydas
- 1566 - Marco Girolamo Vida, Italian poet (born 1485?)
- 1568 - Roger Ascham
- 1570 - Daniele Barbaro (born 1514)
- 1577 - George Gascoigne
- 1586 - Primož Trubar, author of the first printed books in the Slovene language (born 1508)
- 1592 - Robert Greene
- 1593 - Christopher Marlowe
- 1594 - Thomas Kyd
- 1595 - Luis Barahona de Soto
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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)
“On almost the incendiary eve
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“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)