Deaths on March 6

Francis Beaumont

Died on March 6, 1616

Francis Beaumont, English playwright (b. 1584)

Francis Beaumont ( BOH-mont; 1584 – 6 March 1616) was a dramatist in the English Renaissance theatre, most famous for his collaborations with John Fletcher.

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5 Mar

De revolutionibus orbium coelestium
Nicolaus Copernicus's book On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres is added to the Index of Forbidden Books 73 years after it was first published.
25 Oct

Dirk Hartog
Dutch sea-captain Dirk Hartog makes second recorded landfall by a European on Australian soil, at the later-named Dirk Hartog Island off the West Australian coast.