Deaths
- 1600 - Richard Hooker (theologian)
- 1605 - John Stow
- 1607 - Sir Edward Dyer
- 1612 - Juan de la Cueva; Robert Armin
- 1615 - Mateo Alemán
- 1616 - William Shakespeare; Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra; Francis Beaumont; Richard Hakluyt
- 1621 - Guillaume du Vair
- 1623 - William Camden
- 1624 - Stephen Gosson
- 1625 - John Fletcher; Thomas Lodge
- 1626 - Lancelot Andrewes; Samuel Purchas
- 1627 - Luis de Góngora
- 1631 - Michael Drayton; Guillén de Castro y Bellvis
- 1633 - Abraham Fraunce
- 1634 - George Chapman
- 1635 - Lope de Vega; Thomas Randolph; Richard Corbet; John Hall (son-in-law of Shakespeare)
- 1638 - Robert Aytoun
- 1639 - Juan Ruiz de Alarcón
- 1640 - Philip Massinger; Robert Burton
- 1641 - Augustine Baker
- 1643 - William Cartwright
- 1644 - Luis Vélez de Guevara; Francis Quarles
- 1645 - Francisco de Quevedo; William Lithgow
- 1647 - Francis Meres
- 1648 - Tirso de Molina; Alonso de Castillo Solórzano; George Abbot; Vincent Voiture
- 1650 - Rene Decartes
- 1658 - Baltasar Gracián; Pierre du Ryer
- 1660 - Thomas Urquhart
- 1661 - María de Zayas y Sotomayor
- 1662 - François le Métel de Boisrobert
- 1667 - Georges de Scudéry
- 1672 - Anne Bradstreet; Tanneguy Lefebvre
- 1673 - Molière
- 1674 - Marin le Roy de Gomberville
- 1676 - Hans Jakob Christoph von Grimmelshausen
- 1678 - Andrew Marvell
- 1679 - Thomas Hobbes
- 1681 - Pedro Calderón de la Barca
- 1682 - Thomas Browne
- 1685 - Thomas Otway
- 1688 - John Bunyan; Ralph Cudworth
- 1689 - Aphra Behn
- 1691 - Richard Baxter; John Flavel
- 1696 - Miguel de Molinos; Madame de Sévigné
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