Nekrolog 1639

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This is a list of famous people who died in 1639 . 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 14th	Sophie of Braunschweig-Lüneburg	Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach and Brandenburg-Kulmbach	75
January 20th	Mustafa I.	Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1617–1618, 1622–1623)
January 20th	Bertram von Sturm	imperial official in the Thirty Years War
January 24th	Jörg Jenatsch	Swiss pastors and politicians
January 25th	Martin Theophil Polak	Polish Baroque painter
January 29th	Dietrich von Taube	Governor of Upper Lusatia and Oberhofmarschall

February

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
February 5th	Augusta of Denmark	Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf (1590–1616)	58
February 8	Johann Anton Tritt von Wilderen	Auxiliary Bishop in Constance	52
February 9	Umile da Petralia	Italian baroque sculptor
14th of February	Maximilian von Pappenheim	Landgrave of Stühlingen in Klettgau
February 25	Roelant Savery	Flemish painter and etcher

March

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
March 12th	Domenico Ginnasi	Cardinal of the Catholic Church
March 16	Pieter de Neyn	Dutch painter	41
March 30	Zacharias Hegewald	German sculptor

April

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
April 1st	Johann Philipp	Duke of Saxe-Altenburg	42
April 1st	Anton Wolfradt	Cistercian / Benedictine, Abbot of Wilhering and Kremsmünster, Prince-Bishop of the Diocese of Vienna, Governor of Upper Austria, President of the Court Chamber	56
7th of April	Jos Metzler	Monk, monastery librarian in St. Gallen, chronicler, lawyer, writer
April 8th	Alphonsus props	Franciscan, saint
April 18	Michael Schneider	German philosopher	26th
April 24th	Nicolaus Braun	German physicist and doctor, professor in Marburg
April 28	Christoph Eilard	German poet and physicist

May

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
May 13th	Peter Lauremberg	German university professor and writer of the baroque period	53
May 21	Tommaso Campanella	Italian philosopher, Dominican, theologian, poet and polymath	70

June

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
June 1st	Melchior Franck	German composer
6th of June	Peter Crüger	German philologist, astronomer and mathematician	58
June 7th	Antonio de Oquendo	Spanish admiral	61
June 11th	Hartwig von Bülow	German squire and dean of the Ratzeburg bishopric	70
June 28th	James Ramsey	Major general in the Swedish service in the Thirty Years War
June 29th	Jacob of Ramsay	German nobleman
June 29th	Johannes Rhenius	German educator

July

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
3rd of July	Antonius Walaeus	Calvinist, Reformed theologian and professor at Leiden University	65
July 18th	Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar	General of the Thirty Years War	34
22nd of July	Rutilio Manetti	Italian painter
July 23	Heinrich Santmann	German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and chronicler	52
July 27th	Johann Kampferbeke	Mayor of Lübeck
July 31	Meinhard von Lehndorff	lieutenant colonel from Kurbrandenburg as well as governor and district administrator of Rastenburg	48

August

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
August 1st	Thomas Thynne	English nobleman and politician
August 2nd	Jakub Kryštof Rybnický	Czech composer
4th of August	Juan Ruiz de Alarcon	Spanish playwright
6th of August	Hans van Steenwinckel the Younger	Danish builder and sculptor	52
August 7th	Maarten van den Hove	Dutch astronomer
8th August	Christian Hipman	Mayor of Szczecin	53
20th of August	Jakob Bidermann	German playwright and Jesuit
20th of August	Martin Opitz	German baroque poet	41
August 21	Heinrich Wenzel	Duke of Bernstadt, Duke of Oels and Duke of Münsterberg and Count of Glatz	46

September

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
12th September	Konrad Matthäus	German medic	36
17th of September	Sigismund Evenius	German educator
September 18	Johannes Christoph Harpprecht	Wuerttemberg legal scholar	79
September 19th	Johann Bush I.	German legal scholar	51
September 20th	Johannes van Meurs	Dutch classical philologist and historian	60

October

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
October 6th	Bruno Fleischmann	German Carthusian Prior
9th October	Kaspar Kittel	German musician, composer and father of Christoph Kittel (1641–1680)
23rd October	Johannes Coler	German Protestant pastor, representative of early house fathers literature	73
23rd October	Daniel Moser	Mayor of Vienna	68
28th of October	Stefano Landi	Italian singer, Kapellmeister, composer of the early Baroque	52
October 29th	Hans Joachim von Grünthal	Württemberg council, chief steward and chief bailiff	62

November

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
November 3rd	Martin de Porres	Peruvian saint, Dominican	69
November 9th	Sistine Amama	Dutch Reformed theologian and orientalist	46
November 24th	Jan Jansz. the Uyl	Dutch etcher and still life painter
November 26th	John Spottiswoode	Scottish Archbishop of St. Andrew
November 29th	Johannes Nablas	German Benedictine and abbot
30th of November	Christoph Felgenhauer	Dutch merchant

December

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
December 17th	Nils Turesson Bielke	Swedish statesman, member of the Imperial Council	70
25 December	Johann Christian	Duke of Brieg, Governor of Silesia	48
December	Henry Wotton	English diplomat, poet and art connoisseur	71

Date unknown

Surname	Profession known as	Age
Aaron Rechja di Modena	Italian Kabbalist
Moritz Adolf von Dehn-Rotfelser	Electoral Saxon officer
Carlo Farina	Italian violinist, composer and conductor
Taras Fedorovych	Ukrainian Cossack and Hetman
Orazio Gentileschi	Italian painter
Pierre Mazuel	French classical instrumental musician from the Mazuel dynasty
Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falklands	English poet, translator and historian	approx. 54
Diego Hurtado de Mendoza	Spanish Ambassador to the United Kingdom
Joseph Mitrani	Talmudist and Grand Rabbi in Constantinople
Johann Isaak Pontanus	Danish historian
Ludwig Schumacher	Swiss, statesman and military
Francisco da Silva	Peruvian doctor, martyr of Judaism in Peru
Rudolf Sparr von Greiffenberg	Oberamtmann in Koenigstein
Margarethe Werthmann	Victims of the witch hunt