Necrology 1612

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This is a list of famous people who died in 1612 . 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 4th	Hendrik Laurenszoon mirror	Dutch poet and humanist	62
January 5th	Severin Göbel the Elder	German medic	81
January 5th	Paul White	German physicist, poet, rhetorician and Protestant theologian	68
January 7th	Felix Bidembach the Elder	German Protestant theologian and clergyman	47
January 16	Charles III de Croy	General in the Spanish Netherlands	51
January 20th	Rudolf II.	Holy Roman Emperor, King of Bohemia and Hungary	59
January 25th	Johan van Rijswijk	Dutch fortress builder
January 28th	Thomas Bodley	English diplomat and librarian	67
January 30th	Stephan Gerlach	German Protestant theologian and preacher	65

February

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
February 6th	Christophorus Clavius	German mathematician and Jesuit priest	73
February 12th	Jodocus Hondius	Cartographer and publisher	48
February 12th	Johannes Neldel	German rhetorician, logician, legal scholar and philosopher
February 17th	Ernst of Bavaria	Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Cologne	57
February 17th	Hermogenus of Moscow	Patriarch of Moscow and Russia (1606–1612)
February 18	Vincenzo I. Gonzaga	Duke of Mantua and Montferrat	49
20. February	Johannes Gottsleben	German theologian, master's degree, professor and Protestant theologian
February	John Gerard	English botanist
February	García Guerra	Viceroy of Mexico, Archbishop of Mexico

March

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
3 March	Joan Thynne	English nobles
7th March	Mordechai Jaffe	Jewish scholar, rabbi, Rosh-Yeshiva and decisor
March 23	Anna Sibylle von Hanau-Lichtenberg	Daughter of Count Philip IV of Hanau-Lichtenberg	69
28th March	Heinrich Fabricius	German medic, poet and philosopher
March 29	Anna Katharina of Brandenburg	Queen of Denmark and Norway	36
March	Philipp Galle	Dutch draftsman and engraver

April

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
11 April	Emanuel van Meteren	Flemish historian	76
April 13th	Sasaki Kojirō	japanese samurai
April 14th	Nikolaus Leutinger	German historian
April 19th	Anne of Perusse d'Escars	French Bishop of Metz and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church	66

May

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
5th of May	Leonhard I of Taxis	Spanish-Dutch and Imperial Postmaster General
May 11th	Clement Isnard	French bishop
May 24th	Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury	English statesman	48
May 29th	Joachim Zehner	German theologian and educator	46

June

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
June 7th	Konoe Sakihisa	Japanese regent (1554–1568)
June 7th	Georg Obrecht	German cinematographer and professor of law	65
8th June	Hans Leo Hassler	German composer
June 26th	Roger Manners, 5th Earl of Rutland	English nobleman	35
June 29th	Jacques Bongars	French diplomat and book collector
June	Johannes Hertelius	Mediciners

July

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
3rd of July	Iven Knutzen	Farmer and chronicler
July 13th	Constantin Movilă	Prince of Moldova
16th of July	Leonardo Donà	90. Doge of Venice
16th of July	Jakob Wolff the Elder	German architect and sculptor
21 July	Edward Seymour, Viscount Beauchamp	English nobleman	50
July 23	James Hall	English navigator and explorer
29th of July	Abraham Portaleone	Italian-Jewish doctor and writer

August

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
August 9	Philip Ludwig II.	Count of Hanau-Munzenberg	35
12. August	Giovanni Gabrieli	Italian composer
17th August	Alexander Colin	Flemish sculptor
18th of August	Giacomo Boncompagni	Italian feudal lord	64
August 28th	John Smyth	British priest, Baptist

September

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
12th September	Vasily IV.	Russian tsar (1606–1610)	59
13.september	Karin Månsdotter	Swedish queen
September 15th	Marek Bydžovský z Florentýna	Czech historian, astronomer, mathematician and scholar and humanist
September 18	Karl von Lamberg	Archbishop of Prague
September 23rd	Johann Glandorp	Merchant, patron and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck	56
September 24th	Johannes Lippius	German Protestant theologian, philosopher and music theorist	27
September 27th	Piotr Skarga	Polish Jesuit, preacher, hagiographer, polemicist and counter-Reformation personality	76
September 28th	Ernst Soner	German physician and naturopath	39
September 29th	Jodocus Lorichius	German theologian

October

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
October 1	Elias Reusner	German historian	57
4th of October	Cesare Aretusi	Italian mannerism painter
October 7th	Menso Alting	East Frisian preacher and theologian of the Reformation period	70
October 7th	Giovanni Battista Guarini	Italian poet	73
October 7th	Lukas Taccius	German teacher, rector of the Greifswald city school
October 14th	Franz Guillimann	Historian and poet
October, 16th	Jakob Schrenck from Notzing	Bavarian nobleman and historian in Austrian service	73
October 21	Georg Carolides	Czech humanist and poet	43

November

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
November 1st	Charles de Bourbon, comte de Soissons	Count of Soissons	45
November 2	Moritz	Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg
November 6th	Henry Frederick Stuart, Prince of Wales	Heir to the throne of England and Scotland	18th
November 7th	Johann Konrad von Gemmingen	Prince-Bishop of Eichstätt	51
November 9th	Paul Jenisch	German educator and Lutheran theologian
November 9th	Gellius Sascerides	Danish doctor and astronomer	50
November 10th	Bernardino Poccetti	Italian painter	64
20th November	John Harington	English poet	51
November 23	Elisabeth Johanna von Weston	English-Bohemian poet and naturalist	30th

December

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
December 22	Francesco IV Gonzaga	eldest son of Duke Vincenzo I	26th
24th of December	Paul Matthias Wehner	German lawyer	29
December 26th	Ludwig Pincier	German lawyer in the early modern period and first Lutheran dean of the Lübeck cathedral chapter	51

Date unknown

Surname	Profession known as	Age
Ottavio Acquaviva d'Aragona	Cardinal, Archbishop of Naples
Federico Barocci	Italian painter
Daniel Cachedenier	French Romance scholar and grammarian
Juan de la Cueva	Spanish lyric poet and playwright of the Baroque period
Dominicus Custos	Dutch draftsman, engraver and publisher
Giovanni de 'Bardi	Italian soldier, composer and poet
Johann Christoph Fugger	last representative of the Fugger from deer
Conrad Garmers	Mayor of Lübeck
Hans Diepold of Gemmingen	Prince-Bishop of Augsburg council and governor in Dillingen
Mancio Ito	Japanese nobleman and diplomat
Michael Lantzenberger	German book printer
Godske Lindenov	Danish admiral and seafarer
Marten de Mare	Organ builder
Charles de Montmorency, duc de Damville	Duke of Damville, peer and admiral of France
Na Dae-yong	Korean military leader and admiral
Alexander von Pappenheim	German Imperial Hereditary Marshal and Imperial Councilor
Juan Ginés Pérez	Spanish conductor and composer
Giulio Cesare Polerio	Italian chess player
Jonas Poole	English seal hunter and explorer	46
Gerhard Ramsler	German stone carver and painter of Dutch origin	82
Johann Rasch	Austrian writer, historian, genealogist, cleric, organist and bookseller
Nicolas Rémy	Ducal Lorraine privy councilor and chief judge
Jonathan Sauter	Württemberg milliner, typist and arithmetic master, as well as draftsman and engraver	63
Jürgen von Stiten	Councilor in Lübeck
Johann Vesembeck	German Lutheran theologian