Necrology 1640

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This is a list of famous people who died in 1640 . 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	Andreas Merck	German Protestant theologian and pastor	44
January 12th	Georg Riedesel zu Eisenbach	12. Hessian Hereditary Marshal	51
21th January	Donatus von Freywaldt	German physician, professor of medicine, personal physician	53
22nd of January	Erasmus Quellinus I.	Flemish sculptor from the Quellinus family of artists
January 25th	Robert Burton	English writer and Anglican clergyman and scholar	62
January 28th	Heinrich Matthias von Thurn	Main leader of the Bohemian uprising	72
January	Johann Wilhelm Baur	German miniature painter, eraser and engraver of the Baroque era	32
January	Johann Georg Czigan	Silesian baron

February

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
February 2nd	Johanna von Lestonnac	French founder of the order	83
February 5th	Matthias Bernegger	German philologist, university professor and author	57
February 8	Murad IV	Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1623–1640)	27
February 12th	Michael Altenburg	German composer	55
February 24th	Johann von der Berswordt	Westphalian historian

March

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
8th of March	Samuel Ward	English clergyman
March 13th	Manassès de Pas	French general and envoy	49
March 23	Thomas Carew	English poet
March 24th	Michiel Pauw	Schepen von Amsterdam, director of the Dutch West India Company and founder of his own colony on the North American east coast, called 'Pavonia', and its "sovereign"	49
March	Johann Ludwig Hektor von Isolani	Imperial General of the Croatian Horsemen in the Thirty Years War
March	Philip Massinger	English poet and translator

April

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
2nd of April	Paul Fleming	German writer and doctor	30th
2nd of April	Maciej Sarbiewski	Jesuit and neo-Latin writer	45
April 5th	Petrus Kirstenius	German-born doctor and philologist	62
9th April	Hermann Latherus	German lawyer	57
10th of April	Agostino Agazzari	Italian composer and music theorist	61
April 16	Charlotte Flandrina of Orange-Nassau	Abbess of Sainte-Croix	60
April 24th	Hans Hillger	Saxon bell and box founder, Dresden mayor	73
April	Uriel da Costa	Jewish philosopher and theology critic

May

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
May 7th	Heinrich von Ryssel	German trader	46
May 9	Peter Theodoricus	German legal scholar	59
May 19th	Karl Johann Franz of Bavaria	Bavarian prince	21st
28th of May	Heinrich Remmers	Councilor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
30th May	André Duchesne	French geographer and historian
30th May	Peter Paul Rubens	Flemish painter

June

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
2th of June	Katharina Ursula von Hohenzollern-Hechingen	Wife of Margrave Wilhelm von Baden-Baden
3rd of June	Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk	English nobleman
June 5th	Friedrich Hortleder	German historian and politician	61
6th of June	Ortolph Fomann the Younger	German historian and legal scholar	42
June 16	Peter Hasse the Elder	German organist and composer
June 28th	Kaspar von Questenberg	German clergyman, abbot of the Strahov Premonstratensian Monastery
June 29th	John Adson	English composer and Zinkenist

July

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
3rd of July	Giuseppe Cesari	Italian painter	72
July 13th	Heinrich Casimir I.	Count of Nassau-Diez, governor of Friesland, Groningen and Drenthe	28
15th of July	Åke Tott	Swedish general and politician	42
17th July	Johannes Kassian Speiser	German Benedictine abbot	57
July 25th	Francisco Laso de la Vega	Spanish military and governor
July 31	Friedrich Popping	German lawyer and Council Secretary of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck

August

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
17th August	Wilhelm Kettler	Duke of Courland	66
August 22nd	Wilhelm Ludwig	Count of Saarbrücken	49

September

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
September 10	Kaspar von Hohenems	Imperial Count	67
21st September	Thomas Jackson	English theologian	61
21st September	Ludolf von Munchausen	German nobleman	70
25th of September	Philipp Karl	Prince von Arenberg, Duke of Aarschot, officer in the Habsburg service	52
30. September	Charles de Lorraine, duc de Guise	Duke of Guise	69

October

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
October 6th	Wolrad IV.	Count of Waldeck zu Eisenberg	52
9th October	Michael Schmachtenberger	Provost of Heidenfeld
October 18	Georg Mylius	German poet and Protestant theologian	27
October 26th	Pietro Tacca	Italian architect, sculptor and bronze caster	63
October 29th	Aubertus Miraeus	Church historian and Roman Catholic clergyman	66
30th of October	David Meier	German Lutheran theologian, teacher and director of a school, writer	68
October 31	Richard Neile	Archbishop of the Anglican Church
October	William Howard	English nobleman and antiquarian	76

November

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
November 1st	Albrecht Schrick	Mayor of the imperial city of Aachen	67
November 5th	Jacob Fabricius	German Evangelical Lutheran theologian, senior pastor, general superintendent	80
November 7th	Antonius Thysius the Elder	Dutch Reformed theologian	75
14th November	Otto V.	last descendant of the house of Schauenburg	26th
15th of November	Johann Rudolf of Breda	Swedish colonel and military commander of Magdeburg
15th of November	Balthasar Walther	German philologist and Lutheran theologian	54
November 19th	Christoph Radziwiłł	Hetman in Lithuania, governor of Vilnius	55
22nd of November	Mario Minniti	Italian painter	62
November 24th	Sebastian Span	German lawyer	69
25. November	Giles Farnaby	English composer
November 28th	Leonhard von Götz	Bishop of Lavant
November	Georg Philipp von Zehmen	Colonel and Commander of Coburg

December

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
December 1	Georg Wilhelm	Elector of Brandenburg	45
3rd of December	Johannes Meelführer	German Protestant theologian and writer	69
3rd of December	Nicholas of Troilo	German clergyman, Canon in Breslau	58
9th of December	Pierre Fourier	Catholic priest, Augustinian canon, saint of the Catholic Church	75
10th of December	Nicholas III Molitor	German Benedictine abbot
15th December	Wilhelm Baudaert	Dutch theologian	75
23rd of December	Levin von der Schulenburg	District Administrator in the Principality of Anhalt	59
24th of December	Burkhard von Erlach	German lawyer and court marshal	74
30th of December	Jean François Régis	French saint, Jesuit and preacher	43
December 31	Ernst Christoph	Count of East Friesland and Rietberg	34
December 31	Paul Rötting	imperial civil servant, Dresden councilor and mayor

Date unknown

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
	Claudio Achillini	Italian philosopher, theologian, mathematician, poet, and lawyer
	John Atherthon	Anglican bishop
	Jean de Beaugrand	French mathematician, philosopher and painter
	Pieter van den Broecke	Dutch military and merchant
	Francesca Caccini	Italian singer and composer
	Juan del Castillo	Spanish painter
	Melayê Cezîrî	Kurdish writer, poet and mystic
	Fabio Colonna	Italian botanist
	Christoph Dehne	German sculptor and stonemason
	Matthys Elsevier	Dutch bookseller and printer
	Nicolas Fiva	Mathematician and the first Swiss Jesuit in the Far East
	Valentin Friderich	Fortress builders
	Hezarfen Ahmed Çelebi	Ottoman aviation pioneer
	Georg Keller	German engraver, etcher, draftsman and painter
	Samuel Mareschall	Belgian reformed church composer
	Otto Melander	German legal scholar, diplomat and writer
	John Melton	English trader, writer and politician
	Rinaldo Scarlicchio	Bishop of Trieste and Laibach
	Johann Albin Schlick	Bohemian nobleman and supporter of the winter king Friedrich V of the Palatinate
	Johann Karl von Schönburg	Oberamtmann in Koenigstein
	Joel Serkes	Jewish scholar and dean
	Richard Verstegen	Dutch-English writer
	Hendrick Cornelisz. Vroom	Dutch painter and draftsman