Deaths
- February 23 - Henry Noris, Italian church historian and theologian (born 1631)
- April 12 - Jacques Bénigne Bossuet, French writer (born 1627)
- June 18 - Tom Brown (satirist) (born 1662)
- August 19 - Jane Leade, visionary and Christian mystic writer (born 1624)
- October 28 - John Locke, philosopher (born 1632)
- December 11 - Roger L'Estrange, Royalist pamphleteer (born 1616)
- date unknown - Henry Herringman, bookseller and publisher
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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)
“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
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