1650 in literature

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The year 1650 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

Blaise Pascal's poor health forces him to retire from the study of mathematics.
Parliament appoints a commission for the propagation and preaching of the gospel in Wales, advised by Vavasor Powell.
Despite the official prohibition against stage plays, theatrical manager and promoter William Beeston finances repairs to the Cockpit Theatre and attempts to assemble and train a company of young actors. His effort is unsuccessful.
Robert Baron publishes his plagiarized work Pocula Castalia, stealing mainly from the minor poems of John Milton issued in 1645.

July - Charles Leslie, theologian (died 1722)
September 23 - Bishop Jeremy Collier, theologian and theatre critic (died 1726)
date unknown
- Madame d'Aulnoy, writer of fairy tales (died 1705)
- Carlo Alessandro Guidi, Italian lyric poet (died 1712)
- Henry Scougal, Scottish theologian (died 1678)
probable - Richard Blackmore, epic poet (died 1729)

February 11 - René Descartes, philosopher (born 1596)
April 22 - Stephanius, Danish royal historiographer (born 1599)
June - Jean Rotrou, French poet and dramatist (born 1609)
June 30 - Niccolò Cabeo, Italian philosopher (born 1586)
August 25 - Richard Crashaw, poet (born c.1613)
September 17 - Constantino Cajetan, Benedictine scholar and book collector (born 1560)
October 25 - Franciscus Quaresmius, Milanese Franciscan writer (born 1583)
November 13 - Thomas May, poet and historian (born 1595)
December 28 - Bartol Kašić, Croatian linguist and grammarian (born 1575)
date unknown
- Anthony Ascham, political theorist (born c. 1614)
- İbrahim Peçevi, Ottoman historian (born 1572)
- Tukaram, Hindu poet