Necrology 1655

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This is a list of famous people who died in 1655 . 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
6th January	Frans Banning Cocq	Dutch patrician, Mayor of Amsterdam
January 7th	Innocent X.	Pope (1644–1655)	80
January 7th	Laurids Pedersen Thura	Danish educator, orientalist and pastor	56
January 8th	Ludwig Philipp	Administrator of the Electoral Palatinate	52
January 12th	Christian person	Electoral Saxon civil servant	60
22nd of January	Christian Matthiae	Protestant theologian

February

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
February 1st	Giovanni Baptista Ferrari	Italian Jesuit and botanist
February 5th	Johann Leonhard Weidner	German humanist	66
February 15th	Pier Luigi Carafa	Cardinal of the Catholic Church	73
21st of February	Johann of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf	Prince-Bishop of Lübeck	48
February 25	Daniel Heinsius	Scholar of the Dutch Renaissance	74
27th of February	Francesco Molin	99. Doge of Venice	79

March

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
March 12th	Anna Maßmeyer	Victims of the witch trials in Minden
March 12th	Martin Statius	German Protestant theologian
March, 15	Georg von Eickstedt	District Administrator, member of the Consilium Status in Pomerania	70
19th March	Friedrich Molinus	ducal bailiff for the Calenberger Neustadt before Hanover
March 22	Théodore Turquet de Mayerne	Swiss physicians and chemists	81
March 23	Peter de Spina III.	Mediciners	63
28th March	Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg	Queen of Sweden	55
28th March	Kaspar Friederich	Swiss Mayor	82
March 29	Valerius Andreas	Literary historian, lawyer and university professor	66
March 30	Johannes Loesel	German doctor and botanist	47
March 30	Johann Martin Rauscher	German theologian and professor of eloquence	62
March 30	Erasmus Seidel	Brandenburg lawyer and statesman	60
March 30	James Stewart, 4th Duke of Lennox	Scottish nobleman	42
March 31	Bernhard Frick	Priest and auxiliary bishop in Paderborn

April

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
3rd of April	Andrzej Niżankowski	Polish organist and composer
April 6th	David Blondel	theologian	64
12. April	François Guyet	French philologist
April 13th	Christoph Sätzl	Austrian composer
April 14th	Johann Erasmus Kindermann	German composer	39
April 16	Archibald Douglas, 1st Earl of Ormonde	Scottish nobleman
April 25	Johannes Tobias Major	German Lutheran theologian	40
April 29	Cornelius Schut	Flemish painter
April, 30th	Eustache Le Sueur	French painter	38
April	Ernst Casimir	Count Nassau-Weilburg, founder of the Younger Line Nassau-Weilburg	47

May

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
2.May	Joachim Andreae	Dutch politician, diplomat and judge
May 9	Karl Ferdinand Wasa	Prince of the Kingdom of Poland, Prince-Bishop of Wroclaw, Bishop of Płock, Duke of Opole and Duke of Ratibor	41
May 16	Johann Heinrich Meibom	German doctor and professor of medicine	64
30th May	Christian	Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth	74

June

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
June 1st	Martin Erythropel	German Protestant theologian
June 7th	Hector Mithobius	German Lutheran theologian, superintendent	54
June 22	Paul Slevogt	German philologist	59
June 26th	Margaret of Savoy	by marriage, Duchess of Mantua and Monferrat, and in 1635 she was appointed as the last Spanish viceroy of Portugal	66
June 27th	Anna Katharina Dorothea von Salm-Kyrburg	by marriage to the Duchess of Württemberg	41
June 27th	Eleonora Gonzaga	youngest daughter of Vincenzo I Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua	56
June 30th	Jacobus Boonen	Jurist, theologian and Bishop of Ghent and Mechelen	81
June 30th	Anton Günther von Harling	German administrative lawyer and most recently Landdrost of Diepholz County	59

July

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
15th of July	Girolamo Rainaldi	Italian mannerist architect	85
16th of July	Ludwig Trapp of Trappensee	Merchant and Mayor of Heilbronn (1643–1655)	59
July 25th	Friedrich von Logau	Baroque poet	50
July 28th	Cyrano de Bergerac	French author	36
30th July	Sigmund Theophil Staden	German organist, composer, town piper, painter and poet
July	Grete Adrian	Victims of the witch hunt

August

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
August 10	Lodewijk de Vadder	Flemish painter	50
August 19th	Georg Michael Gaisser	Benedictine, abbot and chronicler	59

September

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
September 3	Johann Wolfart van Brederode	Field Marshal of the Netherlands	56
September 11	François Tristan L'Hermite	author
September 15th	Albert Kyper	German medic
16th September	Hans Herstorffer	Austrian master stonemason of the Baroque era and master builder of St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna
September 18	Ferdinand Apshoven the Elder	Flemish painter
September 19th	Francisco López de Zúñiga y Meneses	Spanish soldier and governor of Chile	56
September 24th	Friedrich	Landgrave of Hessen-Eschwege	38
September 29th	Jakob Gerschow	German philologist, historian and lawyer	68
September	Adriaen van der Donck	Dutch colonialist in North America

October

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
October 3	Daniel Tossanus the Younger	German reformed theologian	65
October 14th	Daniel Beckher the Elder	German medic	61
October 14th	Arnold Möller	German typist and mathematician	74
October, 16th	Joseph Solomon Delmedigo	Jewish mathematician and astronomer	64
October 18	Joachim Lütkemann	German Lutheran theologian and writer of edification	46
October 24th	Pierre Gassendi	French theologian, scientist and philosopher	63

November

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
November 5th	Maximilian von Dietrichstein	Austrian diplomat	59
November 16	Johann Heinrich Bisterfeld	German reformed theologian and philosopher, educator, polyhistor	50
November 27th	Anna Ovena Hoyer	North German poet of the baroque period
November 29th	Gotthard VI. from Höveln	Councilor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck

December

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
6th of December	Krzysztof Opaliński	Polish-Lithuanian nobleman, politician, writer	46
December 7th	Ludwig Crocius	Protestant pastor	69
11th December	Pieter Nuyts	Dutch navigator
25 December	Friedrich Runge	first Brandenburg Chancellor in Western Pomerania	56
30th of December	Salomon Voigt	Mayor of Dresden	67
December 31	Janusz Radziwiłł	Lithuanian nobleman, magnate and prince of the Holy Roman Empire	43

Date unknown

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
	Pierre de Conty d'Argencour	French fortress builder
	Wilhelm Bidembach von Treuenfels	German lawyer
	Chechen Khan Soloj	Khan of the Khalka Mongols
	Zygmunt Ernest Denhoff	Table cutter of the Polish Queen, Starost von Bromberg
	Agnes von Everstein	Lady-in-waiting in the Holy Roman Empire
	Maurus Friesenegger	Abbot in Andechs Monastery
	Sebastian Furck	German engraver
	Wolfgang Walter Gruber	German lawyer as well as professor and rector at the University of Tübingen
	Gushri Khan	Prince of the Western Mongolian Khoshuud
	I Sam-pyeong	Father of Imari porcelain
	Jakob Liefer	German Protestant theologian and author
	Diego Mexía Felípez de Guzmán	Spanish military, politician and art collector
	Jacob van Moscher	Dutch painter
	Heinrich Rimphoff	Swedish consistorial councilor and cathedral preacher in Verden; Witch hunters
	Thomas Stafford	English writer
	Herman Swanevelt	Dutch painter
	John Thorpe	English architect
	Tüsiyetü Khan Gombodorz	Khan of the Khalka Mongols
	Valentin Wagner	German draftsman
	Hermann Westhoff	German physician and friend and correspondent of Joachim Jungius