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The year 1630 in literature involved some significant events.
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Events
- English literature, drama, and education lose a major patron and benefactor when William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke and Lord Chamberlain of England, dies on April 10.
New books
- Johann Heinrich Alsted - Encyclopaedia
- Thomas Dekker - London Look Back
- Thomas Randolph - Aristippus, or The Jovial Philosopher and The Conceited Pedlar (in one volume)
New drama
- Anonymous - Pathomachia (published)
- John Clavell - The Soddered Citizen
- Sir William Davenant - The Cruel Brother and The Just Italian (published)
- Thomas Dekker - The Honest Whore, Part 2 (published)
- Philip Massinger - The Picture & The Renegado (published)
- Antonio Hurtado de Mendoza - Cada loco con su tema o el montañés indiano
- Thomas Middleton - A Chaste Maid in Cheapside (published)
- Thomas Randolph
- Aristippus
- Amyntas, or the Impossible Dowry
Poetry
- Diana Primrose - A Chain of Pearl
- John Taylor - All the Works of John Taylor the Water Poet
Births
- February 28 - Matthias Tanner, theologian (died 1692)
- November 24 - Étienne Baluze, general author (died 1718)
- date unknown - Noel Alexandre, theologian (died 1724)
- date unknown - Isaac Barrow, theologian and mathematician (died 1677)
- date unknown - Kaibara Ekken, philosopher (died 1714)
- date unknown - Olaus Rudbeck, scientist and author (died 1702)
- date unknown - Thomas Tanner, clergyman and writer (died 1682)
Deaths
- April 29 - Agrippa d'Aubigné, Protestant poet (born 1552)
- date unknown - Gabriel Harvey, poet and author (born c.1545)
- date unknown - John Heminges, actor and co-editor of the First Folio (born c.1556)
- date unknown - Charles Malapert, Jesuit writer (born 1581)
- date unknown - Samuel Rowlands, pamphleteer (born c.1573)
