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Events
Births
- April 17 - Giovanni Battista Riccioli , Italian astronomer (died 1671 )
- April 23 - Maarten Tromp , Dutch admiral (died 1653 )
- July 31 - Alessandro Algardi , Italian sculptor (died 1654 )
- August 7 - Georg Stiernhielm , Swedish poet (died 1672 )
- September 23 - Eleonore Gonzaga , wife of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1655 )
- November 7 - Francisco Zurbarán , Spanish painter (died 1664 )
- November 28 - Hans Nansen , Danish statesman (died 1667 )
- December 7 - Gian Lorenzo Bernini , Italian sculptor (died 1680 )
- Bonaventura Cavalieri , Italian mathematician (died 1647 )
- Johan Van Galen , Dutch naval officer (died 1653 )
- Ralph Hopton , Royalist commander in the English Civil War (died 1652 )
- Marmaduke Langdale , Royalist in the English Civil War (died 1661 )
- Baldassarre Longhena , Venetian architect (died 1682 )
- Jean Nicolet , French explorer (died 1642 )
- Gilbert Sheldon , Archbishop Of Canterbury (died 1677 )
- William Strode , English parliamentarian (died 1645 )
- Åke Henriksson Tott , Swedish soldier and politician (died 1640 )
''See also .''
Deaths
- January 6 - Tsar Feodor I Of Russia (born 1557 )
- January 9 - Jasper Heywood , English classicist and translator (born 1553 )
- May 3 - Anna Guarini , Italian singer (born 1563 )
- August 4 - William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley , English statesman (b. 1520 )
- September 13 - Philip II Of Spain (born 1526 )
- September 18 - Toyotomi Hideyoshi , Japanese warlord (born 1536 )
- November 19 - Yi Sun-sin , Korean naval leader (killed in battle) (born 1545 )
- December 15 - Philips Van Marnix, Lord Of Sint-Aldegonde , Dutch writer and statesman (born 1538 )
- Johann Georg , Margrave and Elector of Brandenburg and Duke of Prussia (born 1525 )
- Abdulla Khan , Uzbek/Turkoman ruler
- Jacopo Mazzoni , Italian philosopher (born 1548 )
- Abraham Ortelius , Flemish cartographer and geographer (born 1527 )
- Nicolas Pithou , French lawyer and author (born 1524 )
''See also .''
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