1713) John Fenwick, Jacobite conspirator (executed 1697) Anthony Grey, 11th Earl of Kent (died 1702) John Mill, theologian (died 1707) Josias Priest, dancer (died 1735) John Reading, composer and organist (died 1692) George Walker, Church of Ireland clergyman and royalist soldier (killed at Battle of the Boyne 1690) William Winde, architect (died 1722) Deaths 2 January Edward Barrett, 1st Lord Barrett of Newburgh, politician (born 1581; buried) John Hotham, the younger, Member of Parliament (born 1610; executed) 3 January – Sir John Hotham, 1st Baronet, parliamentarian (year of birth unknown; executed) 10 January – William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1573; executed) 11 January – Henry Gage, soldier (born 1597; died of wounds) 23 January – Mary Ward, nun (born 1585) 1 February – Henry Morse, Catholic priest (born 1549; executed) 18 February – Richard Baker, historian (born 1568) 10 March – William Strode, poet (born c. 1602) 3 April (bur.) – Emilia Lanier, poet (born 1569) 16 April – Tobias Hume, composer (born c. 1579 in Scotland) 17 April – Daniel Featley, Calvinist theologian (born 1578) 21 April – William Smith, composer (born 1603; buried) 17 July – Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset, politician (born c. 1587) 6 August – Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex, merchant (born 1575) 16 August – Tobias Hume, composer (born c. 1559) 27 August – Edward Littleton, 1st Baron Lyttelton, judge (born 1589) 9 September – William Strode, parliamentarian (born 1598) 14 September – Sir Richard Grosvenor, 1st Baronet, Member of Parliament (born 1585) 24 September – William Lawes, composer and musician (born 1602) 27 October – Philip Stanhope, Royalist colonel (year of birth unknown; died of wounds) 22 November – John Philipot, officer of arms (born 1588) Approximate date – William Browne, poet (born c. 1590) References Years of the 17th century in England