Events
Births
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January 22 - Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher and scientist (d. 1655)
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March 28 - Jan Amos Komensky, Czech teacher
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August 28 - George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham
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December 6 - William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle
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Wilhelm Schickard, builder of the "Calculating Clock", mechanical machine
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Sir John Eliot, English statesman
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Peter Stuyvesant, last Dutch governor of New Netherlands
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Jacques Callot, French baroque graphics artist
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Nicholas Ferrar Involved in the London Virginia Company
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Hong Taiji, later Emperor of the Qing Dynasty of the Manchu
Deaths
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September 3 - Robert Greene, English playwright, poet, pamphleteer, and prose writer
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September 13 - Michel de Montaigne, French Renaissance thinker.
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November 27 - John III Vasa of Sweden
- Gunilla Bielke, second wife of John III Vasa. (approximately)
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Bartolomeo Ammanati, Florentine architect and sculptor.
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Thomas Cavendish, English sailor and explorer.
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December - Alessandro Farnese , Duke of Parma and Piacenza, great grandson of Pope Paul III and nephew of Philip II of Spain.
Last updated: 10-16-2005 08:00:36