Nekrolog 1617

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This is a list of famous people who died in 1617 . 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 1st	Hendrick Goltzius	Dutch painter and engraver
6th January	Dorothea of Denmark	Duchess of Braunschweig-Lüneburg	70
10. January	Johann Fabricius	German medic and astronomer	30th
January 16	Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau	Austrian Prince Archbishop of Salzburg (1587–1612)	57
January 20th	Fausto Veranzio	Author of the first dictionary in five languages
January 27th	Georg Weinrich	German Lutheran theologian	62
January 28th	Charles II	Duke of Oels (1565-1617); Duke of Bernstadt (1604–1617); Count von Glatz	71
January 29th	Schweikard von Gemmingen	Councilor in Württemberg-Mömpelgard, landlord in Presteneck	61

February

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
February 1st	Balthasar Menz the Younger	German historian, chronicler and imperial poeta laurus
February 4th	Louis Elsevier	Dutch bookbinder and bookseller
February 8	Hans Christoph Heyden	German composer, organist and writer	44
February 11th	Giovanni Antonio Magini	Italian astronomer and mathematician	61
February 12th	Peter Carl	German builder and carpenter
February 15th	Johan Radermacher the Elder	Businessman and humanist	78
February 16	Caspar Ulenberg	German Roman Catholic theologian and Bible translator	67

March

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
9th March	Alonso de Ribera de Pareja	Spanish soldier, twice governor of Chile
March 21st	Pocahontas	Indian princess
March 24th	Christian Calenus	German mathematician, physician, historian and poet	87
27th of March	George II	non-ruling Duke of Pomerania	35

April

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
3rd of April	John Napier	Scottish mathematician
April 5th	Alonso Lobo	Spanish sacred composer	62
11 April	Jobst Harrich	German painter
12. April	Johannes Franke	German doctor and botanist	72
April 21	Johann Knöfel	German composer and organist
April 21	Andreas Osiander the Younger	German Lutheran theologian	54
April 24th	Concino Concini	French general and Marshal of France of Italian origin
April, 30th	Gesche Meiburg	"Jeanne d'Arc von Braunschweig" helped to save the city from conquest in 1615

May

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
May 3rd	Johann Barter	German legal scholar
May 3rd	Aleixo de Menezes	Archbishop of Goa, Archbishop of Braga in Portugal and Spanish Viceroy of Portugal	58
May 4th	Hilmar the Younger of Munchausen	German nobleman
May 7th	David Fabricius	German theologian, amateur astronomer and cartographer	53
May 7th	Jacques-Auguste de Thou	French historian and statesman	63
8th of May	Zacharias Geizkofler	General Provisioner of the Imperial Army, Reichspfennigmeister	56
May 11th	Sprinkler Sistine	Lawyer, university professor, rector, judge, envoy and statesman
31. May	Philipp Jakob Schröter	German medic	63
May	Ghinolfo Dattari	Italian singer and composer

June

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
2th of June	Christoph Brouwer	German Jesuit and historian	57
June 28th	Steffen von Niederbergheim	German brewer and victim of the witch hunt in Hirschberg

July

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
July 6th	Johann, Margreth and Ela Schad	Victims of the witch trials in Flörsheim in the area of the Archdiocese of Mainz
8th of July	Leonora Galigaï	French court lady and regent of Tuscan origin	49
July 13th	Adam Wenzel	Duke of Teschen (1579–1617)	42
July 18th	Dorothea Maria of Anhalt	Ascanian, Princess of Anhalt, by marriage Duchess of Saxe-Weimar	43
July 23	Johann Rodenberg	Dutch Protestant theologian
July 27th	Kaspar Füger the Younger	German composer and Kreuzkantor
29th of July	Katharina von Redern	bohemian nobles
July	Siméon de Provanchères	French medic

August

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
August 1st	Peter Pauw	Dutch medic and botanist	52
3rd August	Tobias Tandler	German physician and mathematician	46
August 7th	Otto von Hessen-Kassel	Hereditary Prince of Hessen-Kassel, administrator of Hersfeld	22nd
15th of August	Christopher Newport	English navigator and pirate	55
18th of August	Tarquinia Molza	Italian musician and poet	74
August 24th	Rosa of Lima	Peruvian saint, mystic, Dominican-Terzian	31
29th August	Sebastian Ramminger	Württemberg court painter
August 30th	Johann Jakob Grynaeus	Swiss reformed theologian	76
August 31	Julius August von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel	Prince of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel and Abbot of the Michaelstein Monastery near Blankenburg	39
August 31	Adolf Rodde	Merchant and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck	49
August	David Altenstetter	German goldsmith

September

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
September 6th	Alexander Sehestedt	German nobleman, lord of Gut Güldenstein and monastery provost of Uetersen
September 10	Christoph Helwig	German chronologist, theologian, historian and linguist	35
13.september	Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn	Prince-Bishop of Würzburg and Duke of Franconia	72
25th of September	Go-yozei	107th Emperor of Japan (December 17, 1586 to May 9, 1611)	45
25th of September	Francisco Suarez	Portuguese theologian and philosopher	69

October

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
October 2nd	Isaac Oliver	English painter
October 3	Theodor Glazer	German lawyer and author
8th October	Johann Eberhard von Kronberg	Burgrave of Friedberg
October 10th	Bernardino Baldi	Italian mathematician, poet and scholar	64
October 12th	Caspar Bucher	German philologist, philosopher and librarian
October 19th	David Höschel	German humanist	61
October 21	Friedrich Peters	German Protestant theologian and proverb collector	68
30th of October	Dietrich Höling	Merchant and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck
October 31	Alphonsus Rodriguez	Spanish Jesuit and lay brother, saint of the Catholic Church	85

November

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
November 5th	Georg Ridinger	architect
November 12th	Nicolas de Neufville, seigneur de Villeroy	French politician and diplomat
14th November	Marc Martí Totxo	Spanish theologian	86
15th of November	Johann Volkmar	German university professor
November 17th	Dorothea of Saxony	Abbess of the Quedlinburg Abbey	26th
November 19th	Christoph Greiss on forest	Lower Austrian sub-marshal
22nd of November	Ahmed I.	Ottoman sultan	27
30th of November	Albert Grauer	German teacher and Lutheran theologian	42

December

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
December 16	Mikuláš Albert z Kaménka	Czech humanist, priest, translator, orientalist

Date unknown

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
	Franciscus Aguilonius	Belgian mathematician and physicist, Jesuit
	Giovanni Bassano	Italian composer
	Charlotte de Beaune-Semblancay, comtesse de Sauve	Mistress of the French King Henry IV.
	Reinhard Benningk	North German piece and bell caster
	Statius Borcholten	German lawyer
	Giovanni Botero	Italian writer, priest, poet and diplomat of the Renaissance
	Jakob Bucher	Swiss politician
	Conrad Bussow	German officer, adventurer and chronicler
	Esaias Compenius the Elder	Organ builder
	Thomas Coryat	English travel writer
	Pierre Du Jarric	French Jesuit, philosopher, theologian and historian
	Giovanni Pietro Flaccomio	Italian conductor and composer
	Fernão Guerreiro	Portuguese Jesuit and historian
	Robert Jones	English lutenist and composer
	Giulio Lasso	Italian architect
	Bernard Gilles Penot	French alchemist and doctor
	Wolf Konrad von Rechberg	Bavarian nobleman
	Barnabe Rich	English writer
	Theodoricus Petri Ruutha	Finnish composer
	Margarethe Sievers	Victims of the witch hunt
	Johannes Petri Ungius	Swedish theologian
	Luis de Velasco y Castilla	Viceroy of Mexico, Viceroy of Peru
	Saul choice	Jewish community leader
	Yonnten Gyatsho	fourth Dalai Lama