Nekrolog 1601

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This is a list of well-known people who died in 1601 . The entries are made alphabetically within the individual data. Animals can be found in the necrology for animals .

January

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
January 3rd	Matthias Menius	German mathematician, astronomer and librarian
January 3rd	Peter Rascher	Bishop of Chur
January 5th	Pure Solenander	Spa doctor in Lucca, personal doctor of Wilhelm the Rich
11th January	Scipione Ammirato	Italian historian	69
January 17th	Christoffer Valkendorff	Danish governor of Norway, Iceland, Gotland and Copenhagen	75
January 19th	Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke	English Earl of Pembroke
January 29th	Louise de Lorraine-Vaudémont	Queen of France (1575–1589)	47

February

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
February 1st	Samuel Hornmold	Baden-Baden Chancellor, Hohenlohe Councilor and Syndicus in Heilbronn	63
February 7th	Martin Garzes	Grand Master of the Order of Malta
February 11th	Heinrich Camerarius	German legal scholar
February 25	Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex	Lover of Queen Elizabeth I of England	35

March

Day	Surname	Profession known as
2nd March	Cesare Vecellio	Italian Renaissance painter
8th of March	Jacob Colijn de Nole	Flemish Renaissance sculptor
March 13th	Mordechai Meisel	Jewish banker, philanthropist and elder of the Jewish community in Prague
March 30	Johann Spreng	Mastersingers from Augsburg and member of the local singing school

April

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
April 5th	Wolfgang von Dalberg	Archbishop and Elector of Mainz, and Arch Chancellor of the Holy Roman Empire (1582–1601)	64
April 5th	Heinrich Duden	Abbot of the monasteries Werden and Helmstedt
April 21	Gernand von Schwalbach	Oberamtmann in Koenigstein
April 24th	Martin Brasch	German philosopher

May

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
May 3rd	August of Brandenburg	Margrave of Brandenburg	21st
5th of May	Jakob Willemsz. Delff	Dutch painter
10th of May	Hans van Steenwinckel the Elder	Flemish builder and sculptor, who served as Royal Builder in the Danish service
12th of May	Anna III to Stolberg	Abbess of the Quedlinburg Abbey	36
May 19th	Costanzo Porta	Italian Renaissance composer
May 22	Jakob Ernfelder	Jesuit, religious provincial
31. May	Gebhard I. von Waldburg	Elector and Archbishop of Cologne (1577–1583)	53

June

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
June 12	Johann Heugel	Hesse-Kassel Chamber Master, Councilor and Senior Administrator of the Lower County of Katzenelnbogen
June 24th	Henriette de Clèves	Duchess of Nevers and Rethel	58

July

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
10th of July	Damat İbrahim Pasha	Ottoman general and politician
24th July	Jacob Griebe	Electoral Saxon Assessor at the Schöffenstuhl and Mayor of Leipzig	60

August

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
August 9	Johannes Andreae	German Lutheran theologian	47
August 9	Mihai Viteazul	Romanian voivode of Wallachia, Transylvania and Moldova
August 10	Giovanni Alberti	Italian painter	42
August 10	Henry Norreys, 1st Baron Norreys	English nobleman and politician
August 11th	Johannes Heurnius	Dutch medic	58
26th of August	James Douglas, 5th Earl of Buchan	Scottish nobleman
August 31	Gian Vincenzo Pinelli	Italian humanist (zoologist, botanist, doctor, collector and linguist)

September

Day	Surname	Profession known as
September 8th	John Shakespeare	Father of William Shakespeare
September 18	Wolf Dietrich von Gemmingen	Prince-Bishop of Eichstätt, court master, Baden-Durlach councilor and lieutenant colonel, commander in the occupation of Upper Baden
September 24th	Pietro Bongo	Italian theologian and numerologist

October

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
9th October	Nikolaus Krell	Chancellor of the Elector Christian I of Saxony
October 24th	Tycho Brahe	Danish astronomer	54
October 24th	Ludwig Philipp	Count Palatine of Guttenberg	23

November

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
November 16	Gerhard Schröder	German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman, senior pastor of the Lübeck Petrikirche and senior of the Ministry of Spirituality
November 17th	Florimond de Raemond	French lawyer, author, counter-reformer
November 19th	Hans III. Göler of Ravensburg	Imperial Knight	75
November 26th	Benedetto Pallavicino	Italian composer
November 28th	Valentin Preuss from Springenberg	German medic	48
30th of November	Balthasar Rhaw	German Graecist, historian and Lutheran theologian

December

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
December 1	Thomas de Witt	Dordrecht patrician and mayor
24th of December	Johannes Dinckel	Protestant theologian, general superintendent in Coburg	56
December 29th	Abraham von Graffenried	Councilor and mayor of the city of Bern
December 29th	Daniel Hermann	German humanist and poet

Date unknown

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
	Adolf XI.	ruling count
	Anthony Bacon	English secretary of state, informant and secret agent
	Martinus Balticus	German pedagogue, playwright and poet
	Wilhelm Besserer	German painter and cartographer
	Girolamo Dalla Casa	Italian composer
	Joachim Klinkow	Mayor of Stralsund
	Mikołaj z Wilkowiecka	Polish Pauline monk and author
	Thomas Nashe	English writer
	Thomas North	English translator
	Susanna of Oberburg	Poor Clare with sympathy for Protestantism
	Leonhart Schröter	German composer and Lutheran cantor
	Otto von Uexküll	Swedish field marshal
	Ida Wied	Abbess of the Premonstratensian monastery Beselich

Individual evidence

↑ Detlev Schwennicke: European family tables. Family tables on the history of the European states . New series, vol. 9: Families from the Middle and Upper Rhine and from Burgundy . Marburg 1986. Without ISBN, plate 55.

[1] Detlev Schwennicke: European family tables. Family tables on the history of the European states . New series, vol. 9: Families from the Middle and Upper Rhine and from Burgundy . Marburg 1986. Without ISBN, plate 55.