Deaths
- February 15 - John Philips, poet (born 1676)
- June 30 - Edward Lhuyd, naturalist (born 1660)
- July 8 - Gustaf Adlerfelt, historian (born 1671)
- September 4 - Jean-François Regnard, poet and dramatist (born 1655)
- December 8
- Thomas Corneille, dramatist (born 1625)
- Bernadine a Piconio, French Capuchin theologian and exegete (born 1633)
- date unknown
- Robert Gould, poet (born c.1660)
- Mary Pix, dramatist (born 1666)
Read more about this topic: 1709 In Literature
Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“This is the 184th Demonstration.
...
What we do is not beautiful
hurts no one makes no one desperate
we do not break the panes of safety glass
stretching between people on the street
and the deaths they hire.”
—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)