1619 in literature

Events

• March – After the death of Richard Burbage, his place as leading actor of the King's Men in London is filled by Joseph Taylor.
• April – Ben Jonson visits the Scottish poet William Drummond of Hawthornden.
• c. October – After the death of Samuel Daniel in Somerset, his place as Poet Laureate of the Kingdom of England is filled by Ben Jonson.
• unknown dates
• *René Descartes has a dream that helps him develop his ideas on analytical geometry.
• *William Jaggard and Thomas Pavier publish in London the so-called False Folio, a collection of Shakespearean and pseudo-Shakespearean plays mostly with false imprints and dates.

  New books

Prose

• Johannes Valentinus Andreae
• *Reipublicae Christianopolitanae descriptio
• *Turris Babel
• Jacob Boehme – De Tribus Principiis
• Philipp Clüver
• *Sardinia et Corsica Antiqua
• *Siciliae Antique libri duo
• Robert Fludd – Utriusque Cosmi...Historia, Tomi Secundi
• Johannes Kepler – Harmonices Mundi
• John Pitseus – De Illustribus Angliae scriptoribus
• Paolo Sarpi – History of the Council of Trent
• John Taylor – A Kicksey Winsey, or, A Lerry Come-Twang

  Drama

• Anonymous – Two Wise Men and All the Rest Fools
• Beaumont and Fletcher
• *A King and No King
• *The Maid's Tragedy
• Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero
• *De Klucht van de koe
• *Stommen ridder
• John Fletcher – The Humorous Lieutenant
• John Fletcher and Philip Massinger – Sir John van Olden Barnavelt
• Lope de Vega – Fuente Ovejuna
• Thomas Middleton – The Masque of Heroes

  Poetry

• Robert Carliell –
• George Wither – Fidelia

  Births

• March 6 – Cyrano de Bergerac, French soldier and poet
• June 24 – Rijcklof van Goens, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies 1678–81 and travel writer
• November 7 – Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux, French biographer
• December 28 – Antoine Furetière, French satirist
• unknown dates
• *Morgan Llwyd, Welsh preacher, poet and writer
• *Shalom Shabazi, Jewish Yemeni poet
• probable
• *William Chamberlayne, English poet, playwright, physician and Royalist soldier
• *Alice Curwen, English autobiographer and Quaker
• *Henry Oldenburg, German-born editor, correspondent and Royal Society secretary

  Deaths

• February 19 – Lucilio Vanini, Italian philosopher
• March 13 – Richard Burbage, English actor and theatre proprietor
• July 12 – Olivier de Serres, French writer on agriculture and horticulture
• October 14 – Samuel Daniel, English Poet Laureate and historian
• October 18 – Petrus Gudelinus, Dutch jurist