Date | Event |
---|---|
Jan 1 |
Tetsugen, Zen teacher (Jodo sect converted to Obaku Zen), dies |
Jan 13 |
Yuan Chonghuan, Chinese military commander (b. 1584) |
Jan 26 |
Henry Briggs, English mathematician (b. 1556) |
Feb 12 |
Fynes Moryson, English traveler and writer (b. 1566) |
Feb 26 |
William Brade, composer, dies |
Apr 17 |
Christian I, ruler of Anhalt-Bernburg (battle of White Mt), dies |
Apr 29 |
Agrippa d'Aubigné, French poet (b. 1552) |
Apr 30 |
Ercole Porta, composer, dies at 44 |
Jul 26 |
Charles Emanuel I, the Great, Duke of Savoy (Peace of Lyon), dies |
Aug 1 |
Federico Cesi, Italian Naturalist and founder of the first modern scientific society, the Accademia dei Lincei, dies at 45 |
Sep 11 |
John de White, calvinist/banker to Prague, commits suicide |
Sep 17 |
Thomas Lake, English statesman (b. 1567) |
Sep 18 |
Melchior Klesl, Austrian cardinal and statesman (b. 1552) |
Sep 20 |
Claudio Saracini, Italian composer (b. 1586) |
Sep 25 |
Ambrogio Spinola, Spanish marquis of Balbases, dies at about 61 |
Sep 30 |
John Billington, murderer, 1st American execution, hanged |
Nov 15 |
Johannes Kepler, German astronomer, dies at 58 |
Nov 18 |
Esaias van der Velde, Dutch painter, buried |
Nov 19 |
Johann Hermann Schein, German composer (Opella Nova), dies at 44 |
Dec 29 |
Jan Baptist Stalpart van der Wiele, RC pastor/lyricist, dies at 51 |
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