| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Feb 17 |
Gregorio Allegri, Italian singer/composer (Miserere), dies at about 67 |
Mar 21 |
Vredius, [Olivier de Wree], Flem historian/mayor (Brugge), dies at 55 |
Apr 15 |
Patriarch Joseph, head of the Russian Orthodox Church |
Apr 21 |
Pietro Della Valle, composer, dies at 66 |
May 27 |
Jacques Huyn, composer, dies at 39 |
Jun 19 |
Louis de Geer, Neth/Swedish industrialist/millionaire, dies at 64 |
Jun 21 |
Inigo Jones, English architect (b. 1573) |
Jun 24 |
Andries Bicker, merchant/Amsterdam regent, dies at 65 |
Jul 24 |
Johann Weichmann, composer, dies at 32 |
Jul 30 |
John Cloppenburg, vicar/theologist, dies at 68 |
Jul 30 |
Charles Amédée de Savoie, 6th Duc de Nemours, French soldier (b. 1624) |
Aug 9 |
John Both, landscape painter/etcher, dies at about 37 |
Aug 14 |
Abraham Elsevier, book publisher/publisher, dies at 60 |
Aug 18 |
Benjamin G Cuyp, historical painter, dies at about 40 |
Aug 22 |
Jacob De la Gardie, Swedish soldier and statesman (b. 1583) |
Aug 23 |
John Byron, 1st Baron Byron, English royalist politician (b. 1600) |
Sep 16 |
Dirck Janszoon Sweelinck, Dutch composer, dies at 61 |
Sep 17 |
Bonaventura Elsevier, book publisher/merchant, dies at about 69 |
Sep 28 |
John Asselijn, landscape painter/etcher, dies at about 42 |
Oct 8 |
John Greaves, English mathematician (b. 1602) |
Oct 13 |
Abraham Verhoeven, Flemish printer/newspaper publisher, dies |
Oct 20 |
Antonio Coello, Spanish writer (b. 1611) |
Oct 27 |
Henry, count of Nassau-Siegen, colonel/gov of Hulst, dies |
Nov 4 |
Jean-Charles de la Faille, Flemish mathematician (b. 1597) |
Nov 21 |
Jan Brożek, Polish mathematician, physician, and astronomer (b. 1585) |
Dec 8 |
Adriaan W "Joris" van Geel, Flemish missionary, murdered at 35 |
Dec 23 |
John Cotton, Mass Bay Puritan preacher, dies at 68 |
Dec 31 |
Frances Cecil, 2nd wife of English earl of Shaftesbury, dies |
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