Necrology 1656

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This is a list of famous people who died in 1656 . 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
11th January	Hermann de Werve	German theologian, astrologer and calendar maker	71
January 16	Franciscus Chemnitz	German medic	46
January 16	Roberto de Nobili	Jesuit, missionary to India and linguist	78
January 18th	August	Duke of Saxony-Lauenburg (1619–1656)	78
January 19th	Kazimierz Lev Sapieha	Lithuanian politician from the time of Poland-Lithuania	46
22nd of January	Thomas Franz	Prince of Carignan and Count of Soissons	60
January 30th	Pierdonato Cesi	Italian cardinal
31 January	Arnold Amsinck	Hamburg businessman and entrepreneur

February

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
February 1st	Rudolf von Drachenfels	German administrative officer and occasional poet	73
February 6th	Justus Feuerborn	German Lutheran theologian	68
February 11th	Reinhard Scheffer the youngest	German lawyer and statesman	65
February 16	Johann Klaj	German poet of the baroque period
19th of February	Andrzej Abrek	Polish university professor
21st of February	Johann von Herold	German bell founder
February 26th	Waldemar Christian to Schleswig and Holstein	Danish Count of Schleswig and Holstein	33
27th of February	Johan van Heemskerk	Dutch author

March

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
2nd March	Georg Ehrentreich von Burgsdorff	Brandenburg military, governor of Küstrin	52
19th March	Georg Calixt	German Protestant theologian	69
March 21st	James Ussher	Irish Anglican theologian	75

April

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
4. April	Andreas Rivinus	German philosopher, literary scholar and physician	54
7th of April	Krzysztof Arciszewski	Polish nobleman and (from 1637) Vice-Governor and Admiral of Dutch Brazil	63
10th of April	Johann Ulrich Pregizer I.	German theologian and university professor	79
April 14th	Martin Caselius	German Lutheran theologian	47
April 15th	Johann Mehlbaum	German legal scholar	44
April 16	Pavel of Kolomna	Russian clergyman and martyr
April 19th	Johannes Schoner the Younger	Scottish-German medic	58
April 24th	Thomas Finck	German mathematician and physician	95
April 27	Jan van Goyen	Dutch landscape painter	60
April 27	Gerrit van Honthorst	Dutch painter	63
April	Wirich von Bernsau	Klevian statesman	74

May

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
1st of May	Carlo Contarini	100th Doge of Venice	75
8th of May	Johann Dietrich von Rosenbach	Oberamtmann in Koenigstein	75
17th of May	Dirck neck	Dutch painter
May 19th	Christian Julius from Hoym	Treasurer of the Principality of Halberstadt	70
23. May	Andreas Rauch	Austrian composer of the Baroque

June

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
June 5th	Francesco Cornaro	101. Doge of Venice
6th of June	Jacobus Polius	first historian in Düren
6th of June	Charles de Schomberg	French military leader	55
17th of June	Martin Gosky	German medic and poet
June 19th	Hempo von dem Knesebeck	Governor of the Altmark	61
June 26th	Lorenzo Marcello	venetian admiral
June	Velten Muhly	German butcher and commander of the vigilante group in Ziegenhain

July

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
8th of July	Alexander van der Capellen	Dutch politician
15th of July	Marco Aurelio Severino	Italian anatomist and surgeon	75
20th of July	Giovanni Battista Mascolo	Jesuit	73
22nd of July	Andreas Ramdohr	German lawyer and syndic of the city of Braunschweig	43
July 23	Nicolaus Henel von Hennenfeld	German biographer, chronicler and historian	74
24th July	Alexander Erskein	Swedish diplomat, President of the Court of Justice, President of the Duchies of Bremen and Verden	57
July 27th	Solomon Glassius	German Lutheran theologian	63
29th of July	Andrea Falconiero	Italian baroque composer

August

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
3rd August	Giangiacomo Teodoro Trivulzio	Italian clergyman, politician and cardinal of the Roman Church
August 7th	Prasat Thong	King of Ayutthaya in Siam
8th August	Chai	King of Ayutthaya in Siam
8th August	Salomon Koninck	Dutch painter and etcher
August 10	Octavio Piccolomini	Italian nobleman, general in the Thirty Years War	56
August 24th	Aegidius Gelenius	Cologne historiographer	61

September

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
September 4th	Petrus Lucius	German book printer	66
21st September	Christian II	Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg (1630–1656)	57
September 27th	Johann Ludwig von Kuefstein	Diplomat and novelist translator of the Baroque period, governor of Upper Austria
September	Giovanni Giacomo Porro	Italian composer, conductor and organist

October

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
October 1	Johann Praetorius	German educator	62
October 3	Erik Axelsson Oxenstierna	Swedish Chancellor	32
8th October	Johann Georg I.	Elector of Saxony from the House of Wettin (Albertine line)	71
8th October	Johann Wissel	German legal scholar and Braunschweig politician	72
October 18	Gerta the Boltin	Victims of the witch trials in Canstein (Marsberg)
October 18	Susanne Weber	Citizen's wife, victim of the persecution of witches in Bad Wildungen
October 25	Francesco Quaresmio	Franciscan and Orientalist and	73

November

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
November 2	Orazio Farnese	Venetian general	20th
November 6th	Johann IV.	King of Portugal	52
November 6th	Jean-Baptiste Morin	French astrologer, mathematician and astronomer	73
November 17th	Jacques Dupuy	French humanist
30th of November	Johann Franz von Schönau	Prince-Bishop of Basel	37
November	Suthammaracha	King of Ayutthaya in Siam

December

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
13th December	Konrad Balthasar Pichtel	Lawyer and court official	51
15th December	Hinrich Balemann	German lawyer and Council Secretary of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck	47
20th of December	David Beck	Dutch portrait painter	35
December 26th	Bogislaus Philipp Michaelis	Royal Swedish Councilor	50
December 27th	Andrew White	English Jesuit and Indian missionary
December 28th	Laurent de La Hyre	French Baroque painter	50

Date unknown

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
	Paul Biberstein	Protestant theologian from Württemberg
	Gerrit Bleker	Dutch painter
	Bernardo Cavallino	Italian baroque painter
	Geertje Dircx	Temporary partner of the painter Rembrandt van Rijn
	Dragpa Gyeltshen	last of the Zimkhang Gongma trulkus
after July 14th	Aniello Falcone	Italian painter	~ 48/49
	Francesco Fracanzano	Italian painter of naturalism in the Baroque period
	Francisco de la Fuente y Villalobos	Spanish soldier and governor of Chile
	Thomas Gage	English clergyman and writer
	Jure Grando	Istrian farmer and alleged vampire
	John Hales	English theologian and scientist
	John Hall	English writer, political pamphleteer and poet
	Francisco de Herrera the Elder	Spanish painter
	Georg Kühlewein	Mayor of Magdeburg
	Raffaello Magiotti	Italian physicist, mathematician and astronomer
	Master of winter landscapes	Dutch or Flemish painter
	Michelangelo Rossi	Italian baroque composer, violinist and organist
	Giovanni Battista Seni	Italian astrologer
	Mijat Tomic	Croatian Hajduk
	Thomas Tomkins	British composer
	Francesco Turini	Italian composer and organist
	Peter Vehr	German theologian and educator
	Heinrich Vollers	Farmer, organist and one of the first chroniclers in the Oldenburg region
	Władysław Dominik Zasławski	Prince, landowner and royal stable master