Deaths
- January 6 - Philip Henslowe, theatre impresario (born 1550)
- February 13 - Anders Sørensen Vedel, historian (born 1542)
- April 22 (Gregorian calendar) - Miguel de Cervantes (born 1547)
- April 23 (Julian calendar) - William Shakespeare (born 1564)
- August 7 - Vincenzo Scamozzi, writer on architecture (born 1548)
- November 23 - Richard Hakluyt, travel writer (born 1552)
- date unknown - Francis Beaumont, dramatist (born 1584)
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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
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“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)