Necrology 1626

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This is a list of famous people who died in 1626 . 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 7th	Matthew Bacmeister	German physician and personal physician	45
January 9th	Hans Urban from Closen	Bavarian hereditary marshal
10. January	Hans Berenberg	Dutch businessman and founder of Berenberg Bank	64
January 14th	Jakob Fugger	Prince-Bishop of Constance	58
January 20th	Radu Mihnea	Ruler of the Principality of Wallachia and Prince of Moldova
January 23	Decio Carafa	Italian cardinal, Archbishop of Naples
January 28th	James Harding	English flautist and composer

February

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
February 1st	Charles de Choiseul, marquis de Praslin	French nobleman, Marshal of France	63
February 4th	Daniel Nebel	German legal scholar and rector of Heidelberg University
February 7th	Wilhelm V.	Duke of Bavaria (1579–1597)	77
February 11th	Pietro Cataldi	Italian mathematician	77
20. February	John Dowland	English Renaissance composer
21st of February	Odoardo Farnese	Italian Roman Catholic clergyman, cardinal and politician	52
February 28	Cyril Tourneur	English poet and playwright

March

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
1st March	Georg Mylius	German Lutheran theologian	58
5. March	Zacharias Scheffter	German philologist, educator and university professor
8th of March	Balthasar von Ahlefeldt	Royal councilor and magistrate of Flensburg and Rendsburg, gentleman on Kolmar, Drage and Heiligenstedten	66
March 11	Rudolf Hospinian	Swiss Protestant clergyman and theologian	78
March 11	Adolf Schulken	Vicar General in the Archdiocese of Cologne	56
19th March	Thomas Merten	Bergsworener and city defender of Zellerfeld in the Thirty Years War
March 21st	Wolfgang Schaller	German medic	43
March 30	Thomas von Wickede	Councilor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck

April

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
9th April	Francis Bacon	English philosopher, statesman and scientist	65
11 April	Marin Getaldic	Croatian scientist	57
April 14th	Gaspare Aselli	Italian anatomist

May

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
May 16	Christian Baum	German theologian and philologist
28th of May	Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk	English politician	64
31. May	Moritz Blum	German medic	29

June

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
3rd of June	Juan de Oñate	Spanish conquistador, explorer and colonial governor
6th of June	Salomon de Caus	French physicist and engineer
June 16	Christian von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel	General in the Thirty Years War	26th
June 22	Gian Gerolamo Campanili	Italian Roman Catholic bishop
June	Samuel Rühling	Cantor in Leipzig and Dresden

July

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
July 1	Full wheel from Krosigk	Squire
5th July	Sigismund Badehorn	German Lutheran theologian	41
5th July	Stefan Fadinger	Farmer, hat maker and leader of the rebellious peasants in the Upper Austrian Peasants' War
July 13th	Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester	noble statesman of the Elizabethan and Jacobin ages in England	62
15th of July	Isabella Brant	first wife of Peter Paul Rubens
July 18th	Christoph Zeller	Captain in the Upper Austrian Peasants' War (1626)
July 19	Elisabeth of Denmark	Duchess of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel	52
July 27th	Ludwig V.	Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt	48
July 28th	Henning Dedekind	German composer	63

August

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
5th of August	Johann Jakob von Grünthal	Austro-German nobleman, court war councilor and general commissarius of the Saxon electors and commandant of Sangerhausen
August 11th	Giovanni Cavaccio	Italian composer and conductor
13 August	Maria of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel	Duchess of Saxony-Lauenburg	60
13 August	Johannes Winckelmann	German Lutheran theologian
August 14th	Nikolaus Rebhan	German theologian, chronicler and church official	55
August 16	Wolfgang Heider	German ethnologist and political scientist, university rector in Jena	67
August 21	Vitus Müller	German Protestant theologian and philologist as well as university professor	65
August 22nd	Alessandro Orsini	Italian cardinal of the Roman Church
August 25	Zacharias Brendel the Elder	German philosopher, natural scientist and physician	72
August 27	Justin Bertuch	German educator	62
August 27	Hans Philipp Fuchs from Bimbach	Danish general in the Thirty Years War
August 27	Philip of Hessen-Kassel	non-governmental Landgrave of Hessen-Kassel, colonel	21st
August 27	Sievert von Pogwisch	German nobleman, diplomat and provost in Uetersen
August 31	Johann Trygophorus	German historian and philologist

September

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
September 4th	Leopold von Stralendorf	Oberamtmann for Eichsfeld, Imperial Privy Councilor and Imperial Vice Chancellor
17th of September	Johann Schweikhard von Kronberg	Archbishop and Elector of Mainz (1604–1626)	73
September 18	Daniel Bidembach	German Lutheran theologian
September 19th	Andrés de Claramonte	Spanish actor and playwright
September 22	Aodh Mac Cathmhaoil	Irish theologian and Archbishop, Franciscan
September 22	Martin Rümelin	German legal scholar	40
25th of September	Lancelot Andrewes	English clergyman, theologian and Bishop of Winchester	71
25th of September	Mikuláš Dačický z Heslova	Czech poet	70
25th of September	Theophile de Viau	French author
September 28th	François de Bonne, duc de Lesdiguières	French military leader, connétable, peer and marshal of France	83
30. September	Nurhaci	Manchurian ruler

October

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
October 2nd	Diego Sarmiento de Acuña	Spanish ambassador in London	58
October 7th	Paul Bril	Dutch painter
October 7th	Rupert Erythropel	German Lutheran theologian, progenitor of the Hanoverian Erythropel family
October 10th	Abraham Schadaeus	German philologist and schoolboy
October, 16th	Joost Hals	Dutch painter
October, 16th	Johann Osiander	German Protestant theologian	62
October 17th	Friedrich Vischlin	German builder
the 20th of October	William Cockayne	British trader and politician
October 24th	Agnes Magdalene of Anhalt-Dessau	Landgrave of Hessen-Kassel	36
October 29th	Ferdinando Gonzaga	second son of the Duke Vincenzo I Gonzaga of Mantua	39
30th of October	Willebrord van Roijen Snell	Dutch astronomer and mathematician	46
30th of October	Johann Textor	German lawyer and historian	44
October	François Béroalde de Verville	French Renaissance writer, poet, and intellectual	70

November

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
November 18	Georg Erasmus von Tschernembl	Calvinist and spokesman for the estates in Austria above the Enns	59
21st November	Anna Maria of Hessen-Kassel	Countess of Nassau-Saarbrücken	59
25. November	Edward Alleyn	English actor	60
November 29th	Anna von Fürstenberg	Abbess of the Oelinghausen Monastery
30th of November	Peter Ernst II von Mansfeld	Army leader in the Thirty Years War

December

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
6th of December	Johann Ernst I.	Duke of Saxe-Weimar	32
December 7th	Martin Pasche	German lawyer and mayor of Berlin	60
9th of December	Salomon de Brosse	French architect
10th of December	Hans Friedrich Göler of Ravensburg	Imperial Knight	61
10th of December	Edmund Gunter	English mathematician and astronomer
15th December	Adriaen de Vries	Dutch sculptor
December 28th	Juraj Zrinski	Ban from Croatia from Zrinski	27
December 29th	Balthasar Meisner	German Evangelical Lutheran theologian and ethicist	39
December 31	Apollonia Radermecher	German founder of the order	55

Date unknown

Surname	Profession known as	Age
Kaspar Alexius	Swiss reformed pastor and theologian
Malik Ambar	Indian Peshwa of Ethiopian origin
Johannes Bach	Stadtpfeifer, son of Veit Bach
Hans Brentel the Younger	Swabian map painter and musician	48
Agustin del Castillo	Spanish painter
John Cooper	English musician and composer
Octave Isnard	French bishop
Johannes Krocker	German Kapellmeister and composer
Dietrich Meuss	Flemish painter
Niall Garbh Ó Domhnaill	Member of the Donegal O'Donnell clan
Henning from the east	District Administrator in the Duchy of Pomerania-Wolgast
Martin Panza	German doctor and health educator
Martin Pring	English navigator, explorer and commander, expedition to New England
Samuel Purchas	Clergyman and writer
William Rowley	English actor and playwright
Oseas Schadaeus	Lutheran clergyman and chronicler in Alsace
John Spilman	German-English entrepreneur, paper manufacturer and jeweler
Taglung Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyel	17th Abbot of the Taglung Monastery, author of the stag lung chos' byung
Johannes Titelius	German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and playwright
Christoph Walther IV	German sculptor of the Renaissance
Gerrit Jacobsz Witsen	Mayor of Amsterdam, dealer