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{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2011}} {{Year nav|1655}} [[File:Berckheyde, after - City hall in Amsterdam - 1668-1670.jpg|thumb|300px|right|[[July 20]]: The [[Royal Palace of Amsterdam|Amsterdam Town Hall]] (now the Royal Palace of the Netherlands) is inaugurated.]] {{C17 year in topic}} {{Year article header|1655}} == Events == [[File:Titan multi spectral overlay.jpg|110px|thumb|[[March 25]]: [[Titan (moon)|Titan]], the largest moon of [[Saturn]], is discovered.]] <onlyinclude> === January–March === * [[January 5]] – [[Emperor Go-Sai]] ascends to the throne of [[Japan]]. * [[January 7]] – [[Pope Innocent X]], leader of the [[Roman Catholic Church]] and the [[Papal States]], dies after more than 10 years of rule. * [[February 14]] – The [[Mapuche]]s launch coordinated attacks against the Spanish in Chile, beginning the [[Mapuche uprising of 1655]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=Historia general de Chile|last=Barros Arana|first=Diego|publisher=Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes|location=Alicante|url=http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/obra-visor/historia-general-de-chile-tomo-cuarto--0/html/ff2f1efc-82b1-11df-acc7-002185ce6064_69.html#I_15_|edition=Digital edition based on the second edition of 2000|volume=4|language=es|author-link=Diego Barros Arana|page=349}}</ref> * [[February 16]] – Dutch Grand Pensionary advisor [[Johan de Witt]] marries Wendela Bicker.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rowen |first1=Herbert Harvey |title=John de Witt, grand pensionary of Holland, 1625-1672 |date=1978 |publisher=Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press |isbn=978-0-691-05247-2 |pages=100–102 |url=https://archive.org/details/johndewittgrandp0000rowe |access-date=16 March 2022}}</ref> * [[March 8]] – [[John Casor]] becomes the first legally recognized slave in what will become the United States, as a court in Northampton County in the [[Colony of Virginia]] issues its decision in the [[Anthony Johnson (colonist)#Casor lawsuit|Casor lawsuit]], the first instance of a judicial determination in the Thirteen Colonies holding that a person who has committed no crime could be held in servitude for life.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Goldsmyth |first1=Samll |last2=Radford |first2=James |last3=Jones |first3=David |last4=Hawkins |first4=Peter |last5=Russell |first5=John H. |title=Colored Freemen as Slave Owners in Virginia |journal=The Journal of Negro History |date=June 1916 |volume=1 |issue=3 |pages=234–235 |doi=10.2307/3035621 |jstor=3035621 |s2cid=149783730 |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.2307/3035621 |access-date=16 March 2022 |language=en |issn=0022-2992}}</ref> * [[March 25]] – [[Saturn]]'s largest moon, [[Titan (moon)|Titan]], is discovered by [[Christiaan Huygens]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Lynn |first1=W.T. |title=The Discovery of Titan |journal=The Observatory |date=1888 |volume=11 |page=338 |bibcode=1888Obs....11..338L |url=https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1888Obs....11..338L |access-date=16 March 2022}}</ref> === April–June === * [[April 4]] – Battle of [[Ghar al Milh|Porto Farina]], [[Tunis]]: English admiral [[Robert Blake (admiral)|Robert Blake]]'s fleet defeats the [[Barbary Coast|Barbary]] pirates.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Authors |first1=Multiple |title=Early Modern Wars 1500–1775 |date=17 September 2013 |publisher=Amber Books Ltd |isbn=978-1-78274-121-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k_GxAgAAQBAJ&q=april+14,+1655 |chapter=Tunisia|access-date=17 March 2022 |language=en}}</ref> * [[April 7]] – [[Pope Alexander VII]] (born Fabio Chigi) succeeds [[Pope Innocent X]], as the 237th [[pope]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Delbeke |first1=Maarten |title="Custos Montium". A Prophecy on the Election of Alexander VII in Jean Lepautre's Depiction of the Chapel of Notre Dame de la Paix in the Louvre |journal=Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte |date=2009 |volume=72 |issue=3 |pages=369–388 |jstor=40379424 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40379424 |access-date=17 March 2022 |issn=0044-2992}}</ref> * [[April 24]] – The [[Piedmontese Easter]] Massacre of the [[Waldensians]]: [[Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy]] slaughters 1,500 men, women and children; this is memorialized in [[John Milton]]'s sonnet "[[On the Late Massacre in Piedmont]]" and apologized for by [[Pope Francis]] in [[2015]]. * [[April 26]] – The [[Dutch West India Company]] denies [[Peter Stuyvesant]]'s request to exclude Jews from [[New Amsterdam]] ([[Manhattan]]).<ref>{{cite book |last1=Oppenheim |first1=Samuel |title=The Early History of the Jews in New York, 1654-1664: Some New Matter on the Subject |date=1909 |publisher=Reprint Services Corporation |isbn=978-0-7812-5313-0 |pages=1, 8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s3A-AAAAYAAJ&q=The+Dutch+West+India+Company+Peter+Stuyvesant+april+26+1655 |access-date=17 March 2022 |language=en}}</ref> * [[April 28]] – [[Robert Blake (admiral)|Admiral Blake]] severely damages the arsenal of the [[Bey]] of [[Tunis]]. * [[May 10]]–[[May 27|27]] – [[Anglo-Spanish War (1654–1660)|Anglo-Spanish War]]: [[Invasion of Jamaica]] – Forces of the English Protectorate led by [[William Penn (Royal Navy officer)|William Penn]] and [[Robert Venables]] capture the island of [[Jamaica]] from [[Spain]].<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Robertson |first=James |date=5 May 2005 |volume=55|issue=5|title=Cromwell and the Conquest of Jamaica |url=https://www.historytoday.com/archive/cromwell-and-conquest-jamaica |magazine=[[History Today]] |url-access=subscription|access-date=18 March 2022}}</ref> * [[June 13]] – [[Ariana Nozeman|Adriana Nooseman-van de Bergh]] becomes the first actress, in [[Theatre of Van Campen|Amsterdam theater]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Schama |first1=Simon |title=The embarrassment of riches : an interpretation of Dutch culture in the Golden Age |date=1997 |publisher=New York : Vintage Books |isbn=978-0-679-78124-0 |page=408 |url=https://archive.org/details/embarrassmentofr00simo |access-date=17 March 2022}}</ref> === July–September === * [[July 20]] – The Amsterdam Town Hall (the modern-day [[Royal Palace of Amsterdam|Royal Palace]]) is inaugurated. * [[July 27]] ** The Jews in [[New Amsterdam]] petition for a separate Jewish cemetery.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Pool |first1=David de Sola |title=An old faith in the New World; portrait of Shearith Israel, 1654-1954 |date=1955 |publisher=New York, Columbia University Press |isbn=9780231878159 |page=30 |url=https://archive.org/details/oldfaithinnewwor00pool |access-date=19 March 2022}}</ref> ** The Netherlands and [[Brandenburg]] sign a military treaty. * [[July 30]] – Dutch troops capture Fort Assahudi Seram. * [[July 31]] – [[Russo-Polish War (1654–67)]]: The Russian army enters the capital of the [[Grand Duchy of Lithuania]], [[Vilnius]], which it holds for 6 years.<ref>{{cite web |last1=BATŪRA |first1=Romas |title=Pamiršta kovos su priešais vieta |url=http://lzinios.lt/lzinios/komentarai/pamirsta-kovos-su-priesais-vieta/187547 |website= |access-date=19 March 2022 |date=29 July 2017 |language=lt |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170729000523/http://lzinios.lt/lzinios/komentarai/pamirsta-kovos-su-priesais-vieta/187547 |archive-date=29 July 2017 |url-status=dead}}</ref> * [[August 9]] – Lord Protector [[Oliver Cromwell]] divides England into 11 districts, under major-generals. * [[August 28]] – [[New Amsterdam]] and [[Peter Stuyvesant]] bar colonial Jews from military service.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kohler |first1=Max J. |title=Civil Status of the Jews in Colonial New York |journal=Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society |date=1897 |issue=6 |page=87 |jstor=43058641 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43058641 |access-date=21 March 2022 |issn=0146-5511}}</ref> * [[August]] – The governor of [[New Netherland]], [[Peter Stuyvesant]], attacks the [[New Sweden]] ([[Delaware]]) colony.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=The History of the Colony of New Sweden |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20084647 |magazine=The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press|volume=8|issue=2|pages=146–148 |date=October 1, 1884|jstor=20084647 |access-date=21 March 2022}}</ref> * [[September 8]] – Swedish King [[Karl X Gustav]] occupies [[Warsaw]] (Poland). * [[September 26]] – [[Peter Stuyvesant]] recaptures the Dutch Fory Casimir, and defeats the [[New Sweden]] ([[Delaware]]) colony. === October –December === * [[October 15]] – The Jews of [[Lublin]] are massacred. * [[October 19]] – Swedish King [[Karl X Gustav]] occupies [[Kraków]] (Poland).<ref>{{cite web |last1=Milewski |first1=Dariusz |title=Szwedzi w Krakowie - Wiadomości w Onet.pl |url=http://wiadomosci.onet.pl/kiosk/historia/szwedzi-w-krakowie,1,3338904,wiadomosc.html |website=onet.pl |publisher=[[Wiadomości]] |access-date=21 March 2022 |language=pl |date=18 May 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110518220019/http://wiadomosci.onet.pl/kiosk/historia/szwedzi-w-krakowie,1,3338904,wiadomosc.html |archive-date=18 May 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref> * [[November 3]] – England and France sign military and economic treaties.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Scott |first1=James Brown |title=The Development of Modern Diplomacy: II: Peaceful Settlement of Controversies Between Nations by Means of Arbitration, Congresses, or Judicial Decisions |journal=Advocate of Peace Through Justice |date=1921 |quote=The case was different with the Treaty of Westminster of November 3, 1655, between Cromwell, of the British Commonwealth, on the one hand, and Louis XIV, on the other.|volume=83 |issue=3 |pages=97 |jstor=20659646 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20659646 |issn=2155-7802}}</ref> * [[November 24]] – English Lord Protector [[Oliver Cromwell]] announces measures against the [[Laudianism|Laudian party]], which are enforced starting on January 1.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Packer |first1=John William |title=The Transformation of Anglicanism, 1643-1660: With Special Reference to Henry Hammond |date=1969 |publisher=Manchester University Press |page=41 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jBwNAQAAIAAJ |access-date=21 March 2022 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Bosher |first1=Robert S. (Robert Semple) |title=The making of the Restoration settlement : the influence of the Laudians, 1649-1662 |date=1951 |publisher=Westminster : Dacre Press |pages=40–41 |url=https://archive.org/details/makingofrestorat0000bosh |access-date=21 March 2022}}</ref> * [[December 4]] – Middelburg, the Netherlands forbids the building of a [[synagogue]]. * [[December 18]] – The [[Whitehall Conference]] ends with the determination that there is no law preventing Jews from re-entering England after the Edict of Expulsion of 1290.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Osterman |first1=Nathan |title=The Controversy over the Proposed Readmission of the Jews to England (1655) |journal=Jewish Social Studies |date=1941 |volume=3 |issue=3 |pages=301–303 |jstor=4464425 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4464425 |access-date=21 March 2022 |issn=0021-6704}}</ref> * [[December 27]] – [[Second Northern War]]/the [[Deluge (history)|Deluge]]: Monks at the [[Jasna Góra Monastery]] in [[Częstochowa]] are successful in fending off a [[Siege of Jasna Góra|month-long siege]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Dabrowski |first1=Patrice M. |title=Poland: The First Thousand Years |date=1 October 2014 |publisher=Cornell University Press |isbn=978-1-5017-5740-2 |pages=203–204 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X__-DwAAQBAJ |access-date=21 March 2022 |language=en}}</ref> === Date unknown === * [[Stephan Farffler]], a 22-year-old [[Paraplegia|paraplegic]] watchmaker, builds the world's first self-propelling chair on a three-wheel chassis using a system of [[Crank (mechanism)|cranks]] and [[Gear|cogwheels]].<ref name="Bellis">{{cite web|last1=Bellis|first1=Mary|title=History of the Wheelchair|url=https://www.thoughtco.com/history-of-the-wheelchair-1992670|website=thoughtco.com|access-date=April 14, 2017}}</ref><ref name="Koerth-Baker">{{cite web|last1=Koerth-Baker|first1=Maggie|title=Who Invented the Wheelchair?|url=http://mentalfloss.com/article/20768/who-invented-wheelchair|website=mentalfloss.com|date=February 2, 2009 |access-date=April 14, 2017}}</ref> However, the device has the appearance of a hand bike more than a [[wheelchair]] since the design includes hand cranks mounted at the front wheel.<ref name="History of Wheelchairs">{{cite web|title=History of Wheelchairs|url=http://www.wheelchair-information.com/history-of-wheelchairs.html|website=wheelchair-information.com|access-date=April 14, 2017|archive-date=March 7, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190307075310/http://www.wheelchair-information.com/history-of-wheelchairs.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> * The ''[[Leiden University Library|Bibliotheca Thysiana]]'' is erected,<ref>{{cite thesis |last=Mourtis |first=E.V.M. |date=December 14, 2016 |title=Een kamer gevuld met de mooiste boeken : de bibliotheek van Johannes Thysius (1622-1653) |type=PhD |chapter=Introduction |publisher=Vantilt |chapter-url=https://scholarlypublications.universiteitleiden.nl/handle/1887/45015|page=11|language=nl|access-date=22 March 2022}}</ref> the only surviving 17th century example in the Netherlands, of a building designed as a library.<ref>{{cite thesis |last=Tuinstra |first=Willemijn|date=2019 |title=Conscience & Connections. Marcellus Franckheim (1587-1644) and his contacts in the Habsburg World at the eve of the Thirty Years War |type=MA |chapter=The Calvinist Connection|page=10 |chapter-url=https://studenttheses.universiteitleiden.nl/handle/1887/76967 |access-date=22 March 2022}}</ref> * [[1655 Malta plague outbreak]] kills 20 people.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Savona-Ventura |first1=Charles |title=Knight Hospitaller Medicine in Malta [1530–1798] |date=2015 |publisher=Self-published |isbn=9781326482220 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SrA_CwAAQBAJ |pages=224–225}}</ref> * [[Frederick III of Denmark|Frederick III of Denmark-Norway]] gives control of the [[Faroe Islands]] to [[Christoffer Gabel]] and his son, which will last until 1709.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wylie |first1=Jonathan |title=The Faroe Islands : interpretations of history |date=1987 |publisher=University Press of Kentucky |isbn=978-0-8131-1578-8 |page=37 |url=https://archive.org/details/faroeislandsinte0000wyli |access-date=30 April 2022}}</ref></onlyinclude> == Births == [[File:InnocientXIII.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Pope Innocent XIII]]]] [[File:Charles XI of Sweden (1691).jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Charles XI of Sweden]]]] [[File:Hoornbeek.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Isaac van Hoornbeek]]]] * [[January 1]] – [[Christian Thomasius]], German jurist (d. [[1728]])<ref>{{cite journal |last1=McReynolds |first1=Paul |last2=Ludwig |first2=Klaus |title=Christian Thomasius and the Origin of Psychological Rating Scales |journal=Isis |date=September 1984 |volume=75 |issue=3 |pages=546–553 |doi=10.1086/353573 |pmid=6389428 |s2cid=32584049 |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.1086/353573 |issn=0021-1753}}</ref> * [[January 5]] – [[John Coney (silversmith)]], early American silversmith/goldsmith (d. [[1722]])<ref>{{cite web |title=John Coney |url=https://www.americansilversmiths.org/makers/silversmiths/27090.htm |website=www.americansilversmiths.org |access-date=22 March 2022}}</ref> * [[January 6]] ** [[Niccolò Comneno Papadopoli]], Italian jurist of religious law and historian (d. [[1740]]) ** [[Eleonor Magdalene of Neuburg]], Holy Roman Empress (d. [[1720]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Eleonore Magdalena (Theresia) von Pfalz-Neuburg (1655 – 1720) |url=http://www.pfalzneuburg.de/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/EleonoreMagdalena1.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://www.pfalzneuburg.de/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/EleonoreMagdalena1.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live |website=www.pfalzneuburg.de |language=de|quote=Eleonore Magdalena Theresia wird am 6. Januar 1655 als ältestes Kind (von insgesamt 17 Kindern, 9 Knaben, 8Mädchen) des Neuburger Pfalzgrafen und Herzogs Philipp Wilhelm und seiner 2.|access-date=22 March 2022}}</ref> * [[January 11]] ** [[Charles Sergison]], English politician (d. [[1732]])<ref>{{cite web |title=SERGISON, Charles (1655-1732), of Cuckfield Park, Suss. |url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/sergison-charles-1655-1732 |website=[[History of Parliament]]}}</ref> ** [[Henry Howard, 7th Duke of Norfolk]], England (d. [[1701]]) * [[January 13]] – [[Bernard de Montfaucon]], French Benedictine monk (d. [[1741]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Broglie |first1=Emmanuel |title=La société de l'abbaye de Saint-Germain des Prés au dixhuitième siècle. Bernard de Montfaucon et les Bernardins, 1715-1750 |date=1891 |language=fr|publisher=Paris, E. Plon, Nourrit |page=305 |url=https://archive.org/details/lasocitdelab02broguoft |access-date=23 March 2022}}</ref> * [[January 19]] – [[Nalan Xingde]], Chinese poet (d. [[1685]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hummel |first1=Arthur W. |title=Eminent Chinese of the Qing Period |date=2018 |publisher=United States Government Printing Office |chapter=SINGDE|isbn=9781614720331 |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780190088019.001.0001/acref-9780190088019-e-590?rskey=C6qtn2&result=581 |access-date=23 March 2022}}</ref> * [[January 21]] – [[Antonio Molinari (painter)|Antonio Molinari]], Italian painter (d. [[1704]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Molinari, Antonio |url=https://www.oxfordartonline.com/groveart/view/10.1093/gao/9781884446054.001.0001/oao-9781884446054-e-7000058911 |website=[[Grove Art Online]] |year=2003 |access-date=22 March 2022 |language=en |doi=10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T058911|isbn=978-1-884446-05-4 |last1=Green |first1=Richard C. }}</ref> * [[January 25]] – [[Cornelius Anckarstjerna]], Dutch-born Swedish admiral (d. [[1714]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Aereboe |first1=Rasmus |title=Notarius publicus Rasmus Aereboes autobiografi (1685-1744) |date=1889 |publisher=Gyldendal |page=86 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mLXRAAAAMAAJ&q=januari |access-date=23 March 2022 |language=da}}</ref> * [[January 27]] – [[Henri de Nesmond]], French churchman (d. [[1727]])<ref>{{cite web |last1=Bunel |first1=Arnaud |title=Archevêques de Toulouse - Henri de Nesmond |url=http://www.heraldique.org/2012/04/archeveques-de-toulouse-henri-de.html |access-date=23 March 2022}}</ref> * [[February 2]] – [[William "Tangier" Smith]], Moroccan mayor (d. [[1705]])<ref>{{cite web |title=William Tangier Smith |url=https://www.nycourts.gov/history/legal-history-new-york/luminaries-supreme-court/smith-william-tangier.html |website=www.nycourts.gov |access-date=23 March 2022}}</ref> * [[February 7]] – [[Jean-François Regnard]], French comic poet (d. [[1709]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lancaster |first1=Henry Carrington |title=A history of French dramatic literature in the seventeenth century. -- |date=1966 |publisher=Gordian Press |location=New York, United States|page=731 |volume=2|url=https://archive.org/details/historyoffrenchd0002lanc |access-date=23 March 2022}}</ref> * [[February 14]] – [[Jacques-Nicolas Colbert]], French churchman (d. [[1707]])<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Olmos |first1=José María de Francisco |last2=Bautista |first2=Antonio Carpallo |title=Estudio de las encuadernaciones de Jacques-Nicolas Colbert depositadas en la Biblioteca Complutense |journal=Revista General de Información y Documentación |date=2017 |volume=27 |issue=2 |page=559 |doi=10.5209/RGID.58208 |url=https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/RGID/article/view/58208 |access-date=24 March 2022 |language=es |issn=1988-2858|doi-access=free }}</ref> * [[February 15]] – [[August, Duke of Saxe-Merseburg-Zörbig]], German prince (d. [[1715]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hübners |first1=Johann |title=Johann Hübners, Rectoris des Fürstlichen Gymnasii zu Merseburg, Drey hundert und drey und dreyßig Genealogische Tabellen |date=1708 |location=Germany |page=170 |url=https://sammlungen.ulb.uni-muenster.de/uo/content/pageview/1195851 |access-date=24 March 2022 |language=en}}</ref> * [[February 16]] – [[Charles, Electoral Prince of Brandenburg]], German prince (d. [[1674]]) * [[February 25]] – [[Carel de Moor]], Dutch painter (d. [[1738]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Waller |first1=François Gerard |title=Biographisch woordenboek van noord Nederlandsche graveurs |date=1974 |publisher=Amsterdam : B.M. Israël |isbn=978-90-6078-070-1 |page=229 |url=https://archive.org/details/biographischwoor0000wall |access-date=25 March 2022}}</ref>{{efn|Arnold Houbraken mentioned erroneously 1656 as his birth in the book ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'', but the correct date is 1655.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Eric Jan |first1=Sluijter |title=Leidse fijnschilders : van Gerrit Dou tot Frans van Mieris de Jonge 1630-1760 |date=1988 |publisher=Zwolle |isbn=9789066301412 |pages=182–185}}</ref>}} * [[February 28]] – [[Johann Beer]], Austrian composer (d. [[1700]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Beer |first1=Johann |last2=Russell |first2=John Raymond |title=German Winter Nights |publisher=Camden House |isbn=978-1-57113-195-9 |page=VII |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lx4Qkb4Y-woC&q=Johann+Beer+februARY+2 |access-date=1 April 2022 |language=en}}</ref> * [[March 4]] – [[Fra Galgario]], Italian painter (d. [[1743]])<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=GHISLANDI, Vittore, known as Fra Galgario |encyclopedia=Enciclopedia Italiana |year=2000 |last= Frangi |first=Francesco|volume=54 |url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/ghislandi-vittore-detto-fra-galgario_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ |language=it|access-date=1 April 2022 }}</ref> * [[March 6]] – [[Frederik Krag]], Danish nobleman and senior civil servant (d. [[1728]])<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title= Frederik Krag |encyclopedia=[[Dansk Biografisk Leksikon]] |date=July 18, 2011 |last=Heiberg |first=Steffen |language=da |url=https://biografiskleksikon.lex.dk/Frederik_Krag |access-date=5 April 2022 }}</ref> * [[March 23]] ** [[Richard Hill of Hawkstone]], English statesman (d. [[1727]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Richard HILL |url=https://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search-2018.pl?sur=&suro=w&fir=&firo=c&cit=&cito=c&c=all&z=all&tex=HL675R&sye=&eye=&col=all&maxcount=50 |website=venn.lib.cam.uk |publisher=University of Cambridge |access-date=5 April 2022}}</ref> ** [[Sir Richard Myddelton, 3rd Baronet]], English politician (d. [[1716]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Pink |first1=William |title=Notes on the Middleton family of Denbighshire & London |date=1891 |publisher=Chester Courant |location=Chester, England |page=28 |url=https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/viewer/450164/?offset=0#page=28&viewer=picture&o=&n=0&q= |access-date=5 April 2022 |language=English}}</ref> * [[April 8]] – [[Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden]], Germany (d. [[1707]])<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Baden-Baden, Ludwig Wilhelm I. |encyclopedia=[[The American Cyclopædia]] |year=1879 |last1=Ripley |first1=George|last2=Anderson Dana |first2=Charles |volume=2 |url=https://archive.org/details/americancyclopae02ripluoft/page/210|access-date=6 April 2022}}</ref> * [[April 19]] – [[George St Lo]], Royal Navy officer and administrator (d. [[1718]])<ref>{{cite web |title=ST. LOE, George (1655-1718), of Covent Garden, London |url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/st-loe-george-1655-1718#footnote1_dq1ew19 |website=History of Parliament |access-date=5 April 2022}}</ref> * [[April 25]] – [[John Lowther, 1st Viscount Lonsdale]], English politician (d. [[1700]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Owen |first1=Hugh |title=The Lowther family : eight hundred years of a family of ancient gentry and worship |date=1990 |publisher=Phillimore & Co. |location=Sussex, England |isbn=0-85033-721-6 |page=197 |url=https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/viewer/588663/?offset=0#page=217&viewer=picture&o=&n=0&q= |access-date=5 April 2022 |language=English}}</ref> * [[April 26]] ** [[Rinaldo d'Este (1655–1737)]], Duke of Modena (d. [[1737]]) ** [[Ofspring Blackall]], Bishop of Exeter (d. [[1716]]) * [[May 4]] – [[Bartolomeo Cristofori]], Italian maker of musical instruments, invented the piano (d. [[1731]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Pollens |first1=Stewart |title=Bartolomeo Cristofori and the Invention of the Piano |date=3 August 2017 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-108-16166-4 |page=8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ot0qDwAAQBAJ&pg=PR6 |access-date=9 April 2022 |language=en}}</ref> * [[May 13]] – [[Pope Innocent XIII]] (d. [[1724]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Innocent XIII {{!}} pope |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Innocent-XIII |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=13 May 2021 |language=en}}</ref> * [[May 31]] – [[Jacques Eléonor Rouxel de Grancey]], Marshal of France (d. [[1725]]) * [[June 4]] – [[Thomas of Cori]], Italian Friar Minor and preacher (d. [[1729]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Tommaso da Cori (1655-1729) - biography |url=https://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/saints/ns_lit_doc_19991121_tommaso-da-cori_en.html |website=www.vatican.va |access-date=9 April 2022}}</ref> * [[June 11]] – [[Antonio Cifrondi]], Italian painter (d. [[1730]]) * [[June 12]] – [[Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen]] (d. [[1715]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Human |first1=Rudolf Armin |title=Chronik der Stadt Hildburghausen |date=1886 |isbn=9781168163332 |page=190 |publisher=Kessinger |url=https://archive.org/details/ChronikDerStadtHildburghausen/page/n215 |language=de|access-date=10 April 2022}}</ref> * [[July 7]] – [[Christoph Dientzenhofer]], German architect (d. [[1722]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Deutsche Biographie - Dientzenhofer, Christoph von |url=http://bsbndb.bsb.lrz-muenchen.de/sfz48960.html |access-date=10 April 2022 |date=23 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150223133904/http://bsbndb.bsb.lrz-muenchen.de/sfz48960.html |archive-date=February 23, 2015 }}</ref> * [[July 20]] – [[Ford Grey, 1st Earl of Tankerville]], England (d. [[1701]])<ref>{{cite ODNB |title=Grey, Ford, earl of Tankerville (bap. 1655, d. 1701), conspirator and politician |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-11531 |year=2004 |access-date=10 April 2022 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/11531|isbn=978-0-19-861412-8 |last1=Greaves |first1=Richard L. }}</ref> * [[August 2]] – [[Sir John Hotham, 3rd Baronet]], English politician (d. [[1691]]) * [[August 13]] – [[Johann Christoph Denner]], German musical instrument maker, invented the clarinet (d. [[1707]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Klarinette - Die Geburt der Königin des guten Tons |url=https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/klarinette-die-geburt-der-koenigin-des-guten-tons-102.html |website=Deutschlandfunk Kultur |date=January 14, 2015 |language=de}}</ref> * [[August 16]] – [[Frederick Christian, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe]] (d. [[1728]]) * [[August 18]] – [[James Collett]], English-born merchant who settled in Norway (d. [[1727]])<ref>{{cite web |title=James Collett |url=https://snl.no/James_Collett |website=Store norske leksikon |access-date=13 April 2022 |language=nb |date=25 November 2020}}</ref> * [[August 22]] – [[Joseph Robineau de Villebon]], governor of Acadia (d. [[1700]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Biography – ROBINAU DE VILLEBON, JOSEPH – Volume I (1000-1700) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography |url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/robinau_de_villebon_joseph_1E.html |website=www.biographi.ca |access-date=16 April 2022}}</ref> * [[September 2]] – [[Andries Pels]], Dutch banker (d. [[1731]]) * [[September 9]] – [[James Johnston (Secretary of State)]], diplomat, Secretary of State for Scotland (d. [[1737]])<ref>{{cite web |title=JOHNSTON, James (1655-1737), of Orleans House, Twickenham, Mdx. |url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/johnston-james-1655-1737 |website=www.historyofparliamentonline.org |access-date=17 April 2022}}</ref> * [[September 12]] – [[Sébastien de Brossard]], French composer and music theorist (d. [[1730]])<ref>{{cite book |title=La Province du Maine |date=1908 |location=Maine, France|publisher=Le Mans au Siege de la Societe, Librairie A. Goupil|page=182 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b6dLAAAAMAAJ |access-date=17 April 2022 |language=fr}}</ref> * [[September 14]] – [[Éléonor Marie du Maine du Bourg]], French nobleman and general (d. [[1739]])<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Muller |first1=Claude |title=Diplomatie et religion en Alsace au temps du cardinal de Fleury (1726-1743) |journal=Revue d'Alsace |date=1 September 2006 |volume=132 |issue=132 |pages=129–173 |doi=10.4000/alsace.1529 |language=fr |issn=0181-0448|doi-access=free }}</ref> * [[September 21]] – [[Roger Cave]], English politician (d. [[1703]])<ref>{{cite web |title=BARONETAGE |url=http://www.leighrayment.com/baronetage/baronetsC1.htm |website= |access-date=17 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080501224819/http://www.leighrayment.com/baronetage/baronetsC1.htm |archive-date=1 May 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref> * [[September 29]] – [[Johann Ferdinand of Auersperg]], Duke of Münsterberg (d. [[1705]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500-1971 |url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSDW-8SQM-4?cc=3015626 |website=familysearch.org |language=de|access-date=18 April 2022}}</ref> * [[September 30]] – [[Charles III, Prince of Guéméné]], French nobleman (d. [[1727]]) * [[October 4]] – [[Lothar Franz von Schönborn]], Archbishop of Mainz (d. [[1729]])<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Lothar Friedrich v. Mainz - Lothar Franz v. Mainz |encyclopedia=Neue Deutsche Biographie |year=1987 |last=Stolberg-Wernigerode |first=Otto Zu |location=Germany|publisher= Maltza|url=https://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/0001/bsb00016333/images/index.html?seite=241|volume=15|page=227 |language=de|access-date=19 April 2022 }}</ref> * [[October 12]] – [[Richard Neville (the younger)]], English politician (d. [[1717]])<ref>{{cite web |title=NEVILLE, Richard (1655-1717) |url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/neville-richard-1655-1717 |website=History of Parliament |access-date=18 April 2022}}</ref> * [[October 25]] – [[Fabio Brulart de Sillery]], French churchman (d. [[1714]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Fabio BRULART de SILLERY |url=http://www.academie-francaise.fr/immortels/base/academiciens/fiche.asp?param=135 |website=[[Académie Française]] |access-date=18 April 2022 |date=1 July 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080701214100/http://www.academie-francaise.fr/immortels/base/academiciens/fiche.asp?param=135 |archive-date=1 July 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref> * [[November 1]] – [[Ferdinand Kettler]], [[Duke of Courland and Semigallia]] (d. [[1737]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Courland, Ferdinand Hzg. v. (1655-1737) |url=https://bbld.de/GND123619122 |website=Baltischen Biographischen Lexikon Digital |language=de|access-date=20 April 2022}}</ref> * [[November 6]] – [[Daniel Lascelles (1655–1734)]], English Member of Parliament (d. [[1734]])<ref>{{cite web |title=LASCELLES, Daniel (1655-1734), of Stank Hall, Kirby Sigston, Yorks. |url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/lascelles-daniel-1655-1734 |website=www.historyofparliamentonline.org |access-date=20 April 2022}}</ref> * [[November 12]] ** [[Eustache Restout]], French painter (d. [[1743]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Restout, Eustache |url=https://www.oxfordartonline.com/benezit/view/10.1093/benz/9780199773787.001.0001/acref-9780199773787-e-00151314 |website=Benezit Dictionary of Artists | year=2011 |access-date=20 April 2022 |language=en |doi=10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00151314| isbn=978-0-19-977378-7 }}</ref> ** [[Francis Nicholson]], British Army general, colonial administrator (d. [[1727]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Biography – NICHOLSON, FRANCIS – Volume II (1701-1740) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography |url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/nicholson_francis_2E.html |website=www.biographi.ca |access-date=20 April 2022}}</ref> * [[November 16]] – [[Alessandro Gherardini]], Italian painter (d. [[1726]])<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=GHERARDINI, Alessandro |encyclopedia=Enciclopedia Italiana |year=2000 |last=Coltellacci |first=Stefano|volume=53 |url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/alessandro-gherardini_(Dizionario-Biografico) |language=it|access-date=21 April 2022 }}</ref> * [[November 18]] – [[Walter Norborne (died 1684)|Walter Norborne]], English politician (d. [[1684]])<ref>{{cite web |title=NORBORNE, Walter (1655-84), of Castle House, Calne, Wilts. |url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1660-1690/member/norborne-walter-1655-84 |website=www.historyofparliamentonline.org |access-date=21 April 2022}}</ref> * [[November 19]] – [[Sir William Robinson, 1st Baronet]], British politician (d. [[1736]])<ref>{{cite web |title=ROBINSON, Sir William, 1st Bt. (1655-1736), of Newby, Yorks. |url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/robinson-sir-william-1655-1736 |access-date=24 April 2022|website=www.historyofparliamentonline.org}}</ref> * [[November 20]] – [[Sir Thomas Grosvenor, 3rd Baronet]], English politician (d. [[1700]])<ref>{{cite ODNB |title=Grosvenor, Sir Thomas, third baronet |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-11674 |year=2004 |access-date=24 April 2022 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/11674|isbn=978-0-19-861412-8 |last1=Handley |first1=Stuart }}</ref> * [[November 24]] – King [[Charles XI of Sweden]] (d. [[1697]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Karl XI. |url=https://brockhaus.de/ecs/enzy/article/karl-karl-xi |website=Enzyklopädie Brockhaus |language=de|access-date=24 April 2022}}</ref> * [[December 9]] – [[Isaac van Hoornbeek]], Grand Pensionary of Holland (d. [[1727]])<ref>{{cite web |title=3.01.20 Inventaris van het archief van Isaak van Hoornbeek, 1720-1727 |url=https://www.nationaalarchief.nl/onderzoeken/archief/3.01.20 |website=Nationaal Archief |access-date=24 April 2022 |page=9|language=nl}}</ref> * [[December 10]] – [[Sir William Forester]], British politician (d. [[1718]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society |date=1902 |publisher=Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society |page=333 |url=https://archive.org/details/transactionsofsh32shro/page/n697 |series=3|volume=2|access-date=24 April 2022}}</ref> * [[December 13]] – [[John Evelyn the Younger]], English translator (d. [[1699]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Stephen |first1=Leslie |title=Dictionary Of National Biography Vol.18 |date=1889 |publisher=Smith, Elder & Co. |isbn=978-0-19-861368-8 |page=83 |edition=18 |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.24299/page/n93 |access-date=25 April 2022}}</ref> * [[December 14]] – [[Philip, Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal]], son of William VI (d. [[1721]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Hessen-Philippsthal, Philipp Landgraf von |url=https://www.lagis-hessen.de/pnd/135671140 |website=www.lagis-hessen.de |language=de|access-date=25 April 2022}}</ref> * [[December 27]] – [[Abstrupus Danby]], English politician (d. [[1727]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Sir Abstrupus Danby, Of an Ancient Yorkshire Family - Twickenham Museum |url=http://www.twickenham-museum.org.uk/detail.php?aid=170&cid=15 |website=www.twickenham-museum.org.uk |access-date=25 April 2022}}</ref> * [[December 28]] – [[Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis]], First Lord of the British Admiralty (d. [[1698]])<ref>{{cite book |last=Edward |first=George |title=The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom : extant, extinct, or dormant |date=1910 |publisher=London : The St. Catherine Press, ltd. |page=366 |url=https://archive.org/details/completepeerageo02coka/page/366 |access-date=25 April 2022}}</ref> * [[December 29]] – [[Lewis Watson, 1st Earl of Rockingham]], English politician (d. [[1724]])<ref>{{cite web |title=WATSON, Hon. Lewis (1655-1724), of Rockingham Castle, Northants. |url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1660-1690/member/watson-hon-lewis-1655-1724 |website=www.historyofparliamentonline.org |access-date=25 April 2022}}</ref> * ''date unknown'' – [[Zumbi]], runaway slave in Brazil (d. [[1695]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Smulewicz-Zucker |first1=Gregory R. |title=The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest |chapter=Zumbi (ca. 1655-1695) |chapter-url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781405198073.wbierp1653 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons, Ltd |access-date=25 April 2022 |pages=1–3 |language=en |doi=10.1002/9781405198073.wbierp1653 |date=20 April 2009|isbn=9781405198073 }}</ref> == Deaths == [[File:Retrato del Papa Inocencio X. Roma, by Diego Velázquez.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Pope Innocent X]]]] [[File:Eustache le sueur.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Eustache Le Sueur]]]] [[File:Ukita Hideie.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Ukita Hideie]]]] * [[January 6]] – [[Louis Philip, Count Palatine of Simmern-Kaiserslautern]], Prince of Paltinate (b. [[1602]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wille |first1=Jakob |title=Allgemeine deutsche Biographie |date=1884 |publisher=Duncker & Humblot |page=580 |edition=19 |url=https://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/bsb00008377/images/index.html?id=00008377&groesser=&fip=xssdaseayaewqeneayaeneayaxdsydeaya&no=1&seite=584 |language=de|access-date=26 April 2022}}</ref> * [[January 7]] – [[Pope Innocent X]] (b. [[1574]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Death of the Pope |url=http://www.csun.edu/~hcfll004/SV1655.html |website=www.csun.edu |access-date=26 April 2022}}</ref> * [[February 15]] – [[Pier Luigi Carafa (1581–1655)|Pier Luigi Carafa]], Italian Catholic cardinal (b. [[1581]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Biaudet |first1=Henry|title=Les nonciatures apostoliques permanentes jusqu'en 1648 |date=1910 |publisher=Suomalainen tiedeakatemia |page=259 |url=https://archive.org/details/lesnonciaturesap00biau/page/258 |access-date=26 April 2022}}</ref> * [[February 21]] – [[John X of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp]], Prince-Bishop of Lübeck (1634–1655) (b. [[1606]])<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Biographisches Lexikon für Schleswig-Holstein and Lübec|encyclopedia=BioLex Digital |year=2020 |url=https://files.wachholtz-verlag.de/openaccess/9783529025624.pdf#page=1084 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://files.wachholtz-verlag.de/openaccess/9783529025624.pdf#page=1084 |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live|publisher=Wachholtz|language=de|access-date=29 April 2022 }}</ref> * [[February 25]] – [[Daniel Heinsius]], Flemish scholar (b. [[1580]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Becker-Cantarino |first1=Barbara |title=Daniel Heinsius |date=1978 |publisher=Twayne Publishers |location=Boston, Massachusetts|isbn=978-0-8057-6318-8 |page=14 |url=https://archive.org/details/danielheinsius00beck |access-date=29 April 2022}}</ref> * [[February 27]] – [[Francesco Molin]], Doge of Venice (b. [[1575]])<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=MOLIN, Francesco |encyclopedia=Enciclopedia Italiana |year=2011 |last1= Benzoni |first1=Gino |volume=75 |url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/francesco-molin_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ |language=it|access-date=29 April 2022 }}</ref> * [[March 28]] – [[Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg]], German princess and queen consort of Sweden (b. [[1599]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Schattkowsky |first1=Martina |title=Witwenschaft in der frühen Neuzeit: fürstliche und adlige Witwen zwischen Fremd- und Selbstbestimmung |date=2003 |publisher=Leipziger Universitätsverlag |isbn=978-3-936522-79-2 |page=312 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tNMnYauaWfUC |access-date=30 April 2022 |language=de}}</ref> * [[March 30]] – [[James Stewart, 1st Duke of Richmond]] (b. [[1612]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Cokayne |first1=George E. |title=The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom : extant, extinct, or dormant |date=1910 |publisher=The St. Catherine Press, ltd. |page=310 |url=https://archive.org/details/completepeerageo03coka/page/310 |access-date=2 May 2022}}</ref> * [[April 6]] – [[David Blondel]], French Protestant clergyman (b. [[1591]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Perrault |first1=Charles |title=Des hommes illustres qui ont paru en France pendant ce siècle, avec leurs portraits au naturel |date=1700 |publisher=A. Dezallier |page=76 |edition=2 |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k9642248h/f150. |language=fr|access-date=2 May 2022}}</ref> * [[April 14]] – [[Johann Erasmus Kindermann]], German composer and organist (b. [[1616]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Schreiber |first1=Felix |title=Der Nurnberger Organist Johannes Erasmus Kindermann (1616-1655) |date=1913 |publisher=Druck von Breitkopf & Härtel |page=XXXIV |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cVw5AAAAIAAJ |access-date=2 May 2022 |language=de}}</ref> * [[April 29]] – [[Cornelis Schut]], Flemish painter, draughtsman and engraver (b. [[1597]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Cornelis Schut |url=https://cs.isabart.org/person/165353 |website=Archive of Fine Arts |access-date=4 May 2022}}</ref> * [[April 30]] – [[Eustache Le Sueur]], French painter (b. [[1617]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Le Sueur, Eustache |url=https://www.oxfordartonline.com/benezit/view/10.1093/benz/9780199773787.001.0001/acref-9780199773787-e-00108538 |website=Benezit Dictionary of Artists |year=2011 |access-date=5 May 2022 |language=en |doi=10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00108538|isbn=978-0-19-977378-7 }}</ref> * [[May 5]] – [[Richard Harrison (Royalist)|Richard Harrison]], English politician (b. [[1583]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Harmar-Hawtayne |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/alumni-oxon/1500-1714/pp652-678 |website=www.british-history.ac.uk |access-date=5 May 2022}}</ref> * [[May 8]] – [[Edward Winslow]], American Pilgrim leader (b. [[1596]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Peirce |first1=Ebenezer Weaver |title=Peirce's Colonial Lists: Civil, Military and Professional Lists of Plymouth and Rhode Island Colonies, Comprising Colonial, County and Town Officers, Clergymen, Physicians and Lawyers |date=1881 |publisher=A. Williams & Company |page=6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C4hBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA3 |access-date=5 May 2022 |language=en}}</ref> * [[May 30]] – [[Christian, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth]] (b. [[1581]]) * [[June 26]] – [[Margaret of Savoy, Vicereine of Portugal]] (b. [[1589]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Margarita de Saboya |url=https://dbe.rah.es/biografias/13421/margarita-de-saboya |website=Real Academia de la Historia |language=es|access-date=5 May 2022}}</ref> * [[June 27]] – [[Eleonora Gonzaga (1598–1655)|Eleonora Gonzaga]], Holy Roman Empress, married to [[Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor]] (b. [[1598]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Semenov |first1=Ilʹi︠a︡ Semenovich |title=Семенов И. С. Христианские династии Европы |date=2002 |publisher=ОЛМА Медиа Групп |isbn=978-5-224-02516-9 |page=198 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZRI9pZL3k34C&pg=PA19 |access-date=5 May 2022 |language=ru}}</ref> * [[June 30]] – [[Jacobus Boonen]], Dutch Catholic archbishop (b. [[1573]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Archbishop Jacques Boonen |url=https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bboonen.html |website=www.catholic-hierarchy.org |access-date=5 May 2022}}</ref> * [[July 15]] – [[Girolamo Rainaldi]], Italian architect (b. [[1570]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Passeri |first1=Giovanni Battista |last2=Baglione |first2=Giovanni |last3=Bianconi |first3=Giovanni Lodovico |last4=Bottari |first4=Giovanni Gaetano |title=Vite de' pittori, scultori ed architetti, che anno lavorato in Roma : morti dal 1641 fino al 1673 |date=1772 |publisher=Presso Gregorio Settari |location=Rome, Italy |page=222 |url=https://archive.org/details/vitedepittoriscu00pass/page/222 |language=it|access-date=6 May 2022}}</ref> * [[July 28]] ** [[Cyrano de Bergerac]], French soldier and writer (b. [[1619]])<ref>{{cite thesis |last=Richardson |first=Isobel |date=1935 |title=Cyrano de Bergerac, Precursor of the Eighteenth Century Spirit |type=M.A. |chapter= Life of Cyrano de Bergerac |page=5|publisher=Fordham University |chapter-url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/2491954886 |access-date=6 May 2022|id={{ProQuest|2491954886}} }}</ref> ** [[Suzuki Shōsan]], Japanese samurai (b. [[1579]]) * [[July 30]] – [[Sigmund Theophil Staden]], important early German composer (b. [[1607]])<ref>{{cite web |last1=Biographie |first1=Deutsche |title=Staden, Sigismund Theophil |url=https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/ppn118616536.html#ndbcontent_leben |website=www.deutsche-biographie.de |access-date=12 May 2022 |language=de}}</ref> * [[August 10]] – [[Alfonso de la Cueva, 1st Marquis of Bedmar]], Spanish cardinal and diplomat (b. [[1572]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Alfonso Cardinal de la Cueva-Benavides y Mendoza-Carrillo [Catholic-Hierarchy] |url=https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bcbmc.html |website=www.catholic-hierarchy.org |access-date=13 May 2022}}</ref> * [[September 7]] – [[François Tristan l'Hermite]], French dramatist (b. 1601)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Pellisson-Fontanier |first1=Paul |title=Histoire de l'Academie françoise .... [T. 1], Depuis son établissement jusqu'à 1652. Par M. Pellisson. Avec des remarques et des additions |date=1729 |publisher=Jean-Baptiste Coignard fils |page=304 |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k96039981/f318.item |access-date=13 May 2022 |language=fr}}</ref> * [[September 24]] – [[Frederick, Landgrave of Hesse-Eschwege]] (b. [[1617]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Hessen-Eschwege, Friedrich Landgraf von |url=https://www.lagis-hessen.de/pnd/123961572 |website=www.lagis-hessen.de |language=de|access-date=17 May 2022}}</ref> * [[October 13]] – [[Tobie Matthew]], English Member of Parliament (b. [[1577]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Venn |first1=John |title=Alumni cantabrigienses; a biographical list of all known students, graduates and holders of office at the University of Cambridge, from the earliest times to 1900 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=162 |url=https://archive.org/details/p1alumnicantabri03univuoft/page/162 |volume=3|access-date=17 May 2022}}</ref> * [[October 14]] – [[Arnold Möller]], German calligrapher (b. [[1581]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Möller, Arnold |url=https://data.cerl.org/thesaurus/cnp00475765 |website=data.cerl.org |access-date=18 May 2022}}</ref> * [[October 16]] – [[Joseph Solomon Delmedigo]], Italian physician, mathematician and music theorist (b. [[1591]])<ref>{{cite web |title=DELMEDIGO, JOSEPH SOLOMON |url=https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/5068-delmedigo-joseph-solomon |website=www.jewishencyclopedia.com |access-date=18 May 2022}}</ref> * [[October 18]] – [[Joachim Lütkemann]], German theologian (b. [[1608]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wille |first1=Jakob |title=Allgemeine deutsche Biographie |date=1884 |publisher=Duncker & Humblot |page=696 |edition=19 |url=https://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/bsb00008377/images/index.html?id=00008377&groesser=&fip=xssdaseayaewqeneayaeneayaxdsydeaya&no=8&seite=700 |language=de|access-date=8 June 2022}}</ref> * [[October 24]] – [[Pierre Gassendi]], French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (b. [[1592]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Trimble |first1=Virginia |last2=Williams |first2=Thomas |last3=Bracher |first3=Katherine |last4=Jarrell |first4=Richard |last5=Marché |first5=Jordan D. |last6=Ragep |first6=F. Jamil |title=Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers |date=18 September 2007 |publisher=Springer Science & Business Media |isbn=978-0-387-30400-7 |page=408 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t-BF1CHkc50C |access-date=8 June 2022 |language=en}}</ref> * [[November 3]] – [[Paulus Aertsz van Ravesteyn]], Dutch printer (born c. [[1586]])<ref>[https://www.genealogieonline.nl/kwartierstaat-bijkerk/I64180106.php Genealogy]</ref> * [[November 6]] – [[Maximilian, Prince of Dietrichstein]], German prince (b. [[1596]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wurzbach |first1=Constantin von |title=Biographisches Lexikon des Kaisertums Österreich |date=1858 |page=299 |url=http://www.literature.at/viewer.alo?objid=11807&page=303&scale=3.33&viewmode=fullscreen |language=de|access-date=8 June 2022}}</ref> * [[November 16]] – [[Giuseppe Marcinò]], Italian priest, member of the Order of Friars Minor (b. [[1589]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Innocenzo da Caltagirone (1589-1655) (N. Prot. 1674) |url=https://www.ofmcap.org/it/documenti-ofmcap/cause-in-corso/cause-dell-ordine/288-innocenzo-da-caltagirone-1589-1655-n-prot-1674 |website=Ordo Fratrum Minorum Capuccinorum |date=January 7, 2015 |access-date=8 June 2022 |language=it}}</ref> * [[November 23]] – [[Elizabeth Wriothesley, Countess of Southampton]] (b. [[1572]]) * [[November 28]] – [[John Oglander]], English politicians (b. [[1585]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Oade-Oxwick |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/alumni-oxon/1500-1714/pp1084-1103 |website=www.british-history.ac.uk |access-date=9 June 2022}}</ref> * [[December 17]] – [[Ukita Hideie]], Japanese ''[[daimyō]]'' (b. [[1573]])<ref>{{cite web |title=宇喜多秀家とは |url=https://kotobank.jp/word/%E5%AE%87%E5%96%9C%E5%A4%9A%E7%A7%80%E5%AE%B6-34359 |website=コトバンク |access-date=10 June 2022 |language=ja}}</ref> * [[December 20]] – [[Gregers Krabbe]], Danish noble (b. [[1594]])<ref>{{cite web |last1=Gjeruldsen |first1=Ole H. |title=Gregers Krabbe |url=https://nbl.snl.no/Gregers_Krabbe |website=Norsk biografisk leksikon |access-date=10 June 2022 |language=nb |date=25 February 2020}}</ref> * [[December 22]] – [[Tsugaru Nobuyoshi]], Japanese daimyō (b. [[1619]]) * [[December 31]] – [[Sir John Wray, 2nd Baronet]], English politician (b. [[1586]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Wray, John |url=https://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search-2018.pl?sur=wray&suro=w&fir=john&firo=c&cit=&cito=c&c=all&z=all&tex=&sye=&eye=&col=all&maxcount=50 |website=venn.lib.cam.ac.uk |access-date=10 June 2022}}</ref> * ''date unknown'' – [[Kocc Barma Fall]], Senegambian philosopher (b. 1586)<ref>Diagne, Léon Sobel, « Le problème de la philosophie africaine » (2004), p. 10 (archived by French Wikipedia) [http://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/20110224081746/http://sfc.education.sn/IMG/pdf/LE_PROBLEME_DE_LA_PHILOSOPHIE_AFRICAINE_Leon_OK.pdf]</ref><ref>''Kocc Barma Fall disait…'' [in] Au Senegal (26 Sep 2013) [https://www.au-senegal.com/kocc-barma-fall-disait,6832.html?lang=fr]</ref> == References == {{Reflist}} {{notelist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:1655}} [[Category:1655| ]]
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