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- April 10 – English literature, drama, and education lose a major patron and benefactor when William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke and Lord Chamberlain of England, dies[1] at Baynard's Castle in London.
- June – Scottish-born Presbyterian Alexander Leighton is brought before Archbishop William Laud's Star Chamber court in England for publishing the seditious pamphlet An Appeale to the Parliament, or, Sions Plea Against the Prelacy (printed in the Netherlands, 1628). He is sentenced to be pilloried and whipped, have his ears cropped, one side of his nose slit, and his face branded with "SS" (for "sower of sedition"), to be imprisoned, and be degraded from holy orders.[2]
- Lope de Vega – El laurel de Apolo
- Diana Primrose – A Chaine of Pearle; or a memoriall of the peerless graces, and heroick vertues of Queene Elizabeth [sic]
- John Taylor – All the Workes of John Taylor the Water-Poet
- February 5 – Michael Rabbet, English Bible translator and cleric (born c. 1562)[3]
- March 16 – Sylvester Norris, English priest and controversialist (born c. 1570)[4]
- April 29 – Agrippa d'Aubigné, French Protestant poet and dramatist (born 1552)[5]
- July 3 – Sigismondo Boldoni, Italian writer, poet, and physician (born 1597)
- August 11 – Thomas Walsingham, English courtier and literary patron (born c. 1561)[6]
- October 10 – John Heminges, English actor and co-editor of the First Folio (born c. 1556)
- November 5 – Charles Malapert, Jesuit writer from Spanish Netherlands (born 1581)[7]
- December 30 – Matthias Martinius, German Calvinist theologian (born 1572)
- Approximate dates – Samuel Rowlands, English pamphleteer (born c. 1573)