John Cheke died (13/9/1557)

English classical scholar and statesman, tutor to Prince Edward (later Edward VI). Escaped burning at the stake (by Bloody Mary), by formally recanting his beliefs; but the whole degrading process probably led to his death shortly thereafter.
Oh, the linguistic angle? He disapproved of the "inkhorn terms" then becoming fashionable, and wrote a letter in which he advocated what Wiki calls "English linguistic purism":
"our own tung shold be written cleane and pure, vnmixt and vnmangeled with borowing of other tunges... For then doth our tung naturallie and praisablie vtter her meaning"
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