Deaths
- July 25 - François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac (born 1604)
- August 17 - Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, novelist (born 1621)
- September 2 - Edward Worsley, Jesuit writer (born 1605)
- October 25 - Justus Georg Schottel, grammarian (born 1612)
- November 1 - Gisbertus Voetius, theologian (born 1589)
- December 18 - Edward Benlowes, poet (born 1603)
- December 25 - William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle, polymath (born 1592)
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“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)
“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)