Date | Event |
---|---|
Feb 2 |
Kaspar Forster, composer, dies at 56 |
Feb 17 |
Molière, [Jean Baptiste Poquelin], French playwright (The Misanthrope), dies. (b. 1622) |
Feb 17 |
Molière, The Miser |
Mar 15 |
Salvatore Rosa, Italian painter (Baroque)/poet/music/actor, dies at 57 |
Mar 20 |
Augustyn Kordecki, Polish prior (b. 1603) |
Mar 28 |
Adam Pijnacker, Dutch landscape painter/etcher, buried at 51 |
Apr 5 |
Francois Caron, admiral/governor (Formosa), drowns at about 72 |
May 7 |
Johannes Teellinck, Dutch vicar, dies at about 58 |
Jun 18 |
Jeanne Mance, French Canadian settler and founder of the first hospital in North America, dies at 66 |
Jun 24 |
John of Paffenrode, ruler of Ghussigny/poet, dies in battle |
Jun 25 |
Charles de Batz-Castelmore, Comte d'Artagnan, Captain of the Musketeers under Louis XIV of France (b. 1611) |
Aug 17 |
Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist, dies of possible suicide at 32 (b. 1641) |
Aug 21 |
Isaac Sweers, Dutch fleet admiral/Civil rights activist, dies at 51 |
Aug 21 |
John de Love I, vice-admiral, dies in sea battle at about 54 |
Oct 13 |
Kristoffer Gabel, Danish statesman (b. 1617) |
Oct 17 |
Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English statesman (b. 1630) |
Nov 10 |
Michael Korybut Wisniowiecki, king of Poland (16..-73), dies |
Nov 14 |
Michael Wisniowieki, King of Poland, dies |
Nov 27 |
Anthonie Palamedesz, painter, dies at about 72 |
Dec 15 |
Margaret Cavendish, English writer (b. 1623) |
Dec 16 |
Juan de Padilla, composer, dies at 68 |
Dec 28 |
Joan Blaeu, Dutch cartographer/publisher (Atlas Major), dies at 77 |
Dec 31 |
Oliver St John, English statesman and judge |
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