Nekrolog 1608

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This is a list of well-known people who died in 1608 . 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 19th	Bernard Maciejowski	Primate of Poland
January 29th	Hugo Blotius	Lawyer and Librarian
January 29th	Friedrich I.	Count of Mömpelgard and sixth Duke of Württemberg	50
January 30th	Ferdinand of Bavaria	Prince of Bavaria and general	58

February

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
3 February	Pantaleon Candidus	Reformed theologian, historian and author	67
February 16	Nicolas Rapin	French author
February 18	Charles II. De Luxembourg-Ligny	Count of Brienne and Ligny, peer of France	36
February 26th	Erasmus Stockmann	German professor for physics and metaphysics	63
27th of February	Henri de Bourbon, duc de Montpensier	Duke of Montpensier, Châtellerault and Saint-Fargeau; French military leader	34
February	Hartwig von Dassel	Councilor and author of several legal writings

March

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
3 March	Blandina Goldbeck	German housewife in the Hanseatic city of Werben (Elbe)	33
9th March	Caterina Martinelli	roman singer
March 29	Erhardus Sparrowhawk	Reformation theologian

April

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
April 18	Jakob Christoph Blarer from Wartensee	Bishop of Basel	65
April 19th	Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset	English statesman, playwright and poet
April 25	Johann VI. from Sitsch	Prince-Bishop of Breslau, Governor of Silesia	55
April 29	Maria Anna of Bavaria	Archduchess of Inner Austria-Styria	57

May

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
May 11th	Sebastian Röttinger	Counselor of the Free Imperial City of Nördlingen, Counsel to the Franconian and Swabian Imperial Knighthood and witch hunter	70
May 14th	Charles III	Duke of Lorraine	65
May 22	Juan Bautista Villalpando	Spanish Jesuit priest, scholar, mathematician and architect

June

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
June 1st	Marie Eleonore von Jülich-Kleve-Berg	by marriage to the Duchess of Prussia	57
June 4th	Francis of Caraciolo	Order founder and saint of the Roman Catholic Church	44
6th of June	Bernardo Buontalenti	Italian painter, architect and theater machinist	76
June 19th	Alberico Gentili	Italian lawyer	56
June 19th	Johannes Pistorius the Younger	German controversial theologian and historian	62

July

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
July 9	Lucas Bacmeister	German Lutheran theologian and hymn composer	77
July 12	Margarethe von Dietz	countess	63
July 18th	Marquard von Ahlefeldt	Herr auf Haselau, Kaden and the murderer of Detlev von Ahlefeldt	37
July 18th	Joachim Friedrich	Elector of Brandenburg, Duke of Prussia, administrator of Magdeburg	62
21 July	Johannes Angelus	German Lutheran theologian
July 26th	Pablo de Céspedes	Spanish painter

August

Day	Surname	Profession known as
August 1st	Christoph Vogel	German Protestant pastor and topographer
13 August	Giovanni Bologna	Mannerist sculptor
August	Giacomo Candido	Italian Roman Catholic bishop

September

Day	Surname	Profession known as
September 2nd	Jerónimo Xavierre	Spanish Dominican and Cardinal
September 3	Guillén de San Clemente	Spanish diplomat
the 9th of September	Mary Shakespeare	Mother of William Shakespeare
September 19th	Alfonso Visconti	Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal
September 28th	Henri de Joyeuse	French Capuchin, Marshal of France, military leader in the Huguenot Wars and Duke of Joyeuse

October

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
October 3	Bonifacius Colyn	Mayor and aldermen of Aachen
4th of October	Christoph von Schönberg	Saxon miner captain
9th October	Pompeo Leoni	Italian sculptor and art collector
October 17th	Luca Bati	Italian composer and music teacher at the transition between the Renaissance and Baroque periods
October 19th	Martin Anton Delrio	Jesuit and witch theorist	57
October 19th	Geoffrey Fenton	English translator
October 19th	Maria Pypelinckx	Mother of Peter Paul Rubens	70
October 26th	Valentin Forster	German lawyer	78
October 26th	Philipp Nicolai	Pastor and songwriter	52
October 26th	Juan Pantoja de la Cruz	Spanish painter
October 26th	Gertrud von Plettenberg	Mistress Ernst of Bavaria

November

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
November 3rd	Johann Georg von Werdenstein	German nobleman, canon, cantor, collector of books and music	66
November 10th	Andreas Avellino	Italian religious priest of the Theatine order
November 13th	Veit Winsheim the Younger	Hungarian legal scholar
14th November	Bartolomé Carducho	Italian painter

December

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
December 5th	Sigismund I. Rákóczi	Prince of Transylvania
December 29th	Martin Schalling the Younger	German Protestant theologian, hymn poet and reformer	76

Date unknown

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
	Matthias Benningk	German gun and bell founder
	Bess of Hardwick	Countess of Shrewsbury
	Ivan Isayevich Bolotnikov	Russian serf and leader of the great Russian peasant uprising of (1606-1607)
	Giovanni Ambrogio Figino	Italian painter
	Anastasio de Fillis	Italian astronomer and one of the co-founders of the Accademia dei Lincei in Rome
	Johannes Fleischer the Younger	German doctor and botanist
	Hans Frese	German cartographer
	François de Gravelle	French author and philosopher
	Theobaldus van Hoghelande	Dutch alchemist
	Bartholomäus Keckermann	German Reformed theologian and philosopher
	Jean de la Taille	French poet and playwright
	Duarte Nunes de Leão	Portuguese legal scholar and historian
	Dirck Gerritz Pomp	Dutch navigator
	Friedrich Seefried	German portrait and coat of arms painter, vedute draftsman and cartographer
	Christoph Silberysen	Swiss abbot and book illustrator
	Alessandro Vittoria	Italian mannerist sculptor