1644 in literature
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See also: 1643 in literature, other events of 1644, 1645 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
- The second Globe Theatre is demolished by the Puritan government to make room for new housing.
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New books
- Principia Philosophiae - René Descartes
- Cogitata physico-mathematica - Marin Mersenne
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Births
- August 6 - Louise de la Vallière , mistress of King Louis XIV of France, later the subject of a novel by Alexandre Dumas fils.
- October 2 - François-Timoléon de Choisy, memoirist
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Deaths
- January - William Chillingworth, controversial religious writer
- September 7 - Cardinal Guido Bentivoglio, historian
- September 8 - Francis Quarles, poet
- November 10 - Luís Vélez de Guevara, dramatist and novelist