1609
Events Science Births February 10 - John Suckling , English poet (died 1642 ) February 18 - Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon , English historian and statesman (died 1674 ) March 22 - John II Casimir of Poland (died 1672 ) March 28 - King Frederick III of Denmark (died 1670 ) March 29 - Sarah Boyle , English noblewoman (died 1633 ) June 29 - Pierre Paul Riquet , French engineer and canal builder (died 1680 ) August 19 - Jean Rotrou , French poet and tragedian November 25 - Henrietta Maria of France , queen of Charles I of England (died 1669 ) November 26 - Henry Dunster , first President of Harvard College (died 1659 ) December 24 - Philip Warwick , English writer and politician (died 1683 ) Gauthier de Costes, seigneur de la Calprenède , French novelist and dramatist (died 1663 ) John Clarke , English physician (died 1676 ) Samuel Cooper , English miniature painter (died 1672 ) Nathaniel Eaton , first schoolmaster of Harvard College (died 1674 ) Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand , Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands (died 1641 ) Paul Fleming , German poet (died 1640 ) Jan Fyt , Belgian animal painter (died 1661 ) Matthew Hale , Lord Chief Justice of England (died 1676 ) Alberich Mazak , Austrian composer (died 1661 ) Hannibal Sehested , Danish statesman (died 1666 ) John Underhill , English soldier and colonist (died 1672 ) Gerrard Winstanley , English Protestant religious reformer (died 1676 ) Lucas d'Achéry , learned French Benedictine (died 1685 )
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Deaths January 21 - Joseph Justus Scaliger , French protestant scholar (born 1540 ) February 17 - Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (born 1549 ) March 9 - William Warner , English poet March 25 - Olaus Martini , Swedish Archbishop of Uppsala (b. 1557 ) April 4 - Charles de L'Ecluse , Flemish botanist (born 1526 ) May 15 - Giovanni Croce , Italian composer (born 1557 ) July 15 - Annibale Carracci , Italian painter (born 1560 ) August 22 - Maharal of Prague , Jewish mystic and philosopher (born 1525 ) October 1 - Giammateo Asola , Italian composer December 4 - Alexander Hume , Scottish poet (born 1560 ) Al-Jilani , Persian physician Mateo Alemán , Spanish novelist and man of letters (born 1547 ) Yamada Arinobu , Japanese nobleman (born 1544 ) Jacobus Arminius , Dutch Reformed theologian (born 1560 ) James Hamilton, 3rd Earl of Arran Barnabe Barnes , English poet (born 1568 ) Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi , Italian Baroque composer (born 1582 ) Mark Kerr, 1st Earl of Lothian , Scottish statesman (born 1553 ) Federigo Zuccaro , Italian painter (born 1543 )
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