Deaths
- March 31 - John Donne, poet (born 1572)
- May - Samuel Harsnett, religious writer (born 1561)
- May 6 - Robert Bruce Cotton, founder of the Cotton Library (born 1570)
- July - Enrico Caterino Davila, historian (born 1576)
- July 28 - Guillén de Castro y Bellvis, dramatist (born 1569)
- September 22 - Cardinal Federico Borromeo, archbishop of Milan, founder of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana (born 1564)
- November 29 - Edmond Richer, theologian (born 1559)
- December 23 - Michael Drayton, poet (born 1563)
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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)
“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)
“There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
—Philip Caputo (b. 1941)