Nekrolog 1661

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This is a list of famous people who died in 1661 . 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 1st	Christian Bockelmann	German Protestant theologian
January 19th	David Erythropel	German Lutheran theologian, teacher and director of a school, writer	56
January 19th	Thomas Venner	English cooper and rebel
January 24th	Johann Flugi of Aspermont	Bishop of Chur	65
January 30th	Dietrich Adolf von der Recke	Prince-Bishop of Paderborn	59

February

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
February 2nd	Lukas Holste	German humanistic scholar, librarian and geographer
February 5th	Shunzhi	Emperor of China	22nd
February 7th	Georg Pauli-Stravius	Auxiliary Bishop in Cologne	67
February 10th	Johann Conrad Hochstetter	Lutheran theologian
February 12th	August Buchner	German lyric poet	69
February 15th	Sebastian Peregrin Zwyer	Swiss military, diplomat and politician
February 25	Wilhelm Schorigus the Elder	German sculptor

March

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
1st March	Richard Zouch	English judge, politician and university professor
9th March	Caspar Della	Austrian painter of the baroque
9th March	Jules Mazarin	French statesman and cardinal	58
the 14th of March	Adam Lenckhardt	German ivory carver	50
17. March	Gerhard Winter	German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman, senior pastor of the Jakobikirche in Lübeck and senior of the Ministry of Spiritual Affairs	71
March 23	Pieter de Molijn	Dutch landscape painter	65
March 24th	Sigismund Weier	German mathematician, librarian and historian	82
27th of March	Inoue Masashige	Japanese chief inspector, key figure in government relations with the Dutch East India Company

April

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
4. April	Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Leven	scottish soldier
April 5th	John Webster	English governor of the Connecticut Colony	70
April 25	Jakob von Manteuffel	Brandenburg colonel in the Thirty Years War
April 27	Elias of Leo	German doctor, mathematician and astronomer

May

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
1st of May	Johann von Geyso	Lieutenant General in the Thirty Years' War, Privy Council of War and landlord	68
May 4th	Jean de Cambefort	French singer and composer of the Baroque era
May 4th	Heino Lambeck	German writing and arithmetic teacher, mathematician and educator
8th of May	Johannes Horrichem	German clergyman, thirty-fifth abbot of the Steinfeld Premonstratensian Abbey
May 9	Alberich Mazak	Austrian composer, choir director and conductor
12th of May	Jacob Willemsz. Delff	Dutch painter	42
12th of May	Andreas Wolf	German medic	46
May 14th	Ilario Casolani	Italian painter
May 26	Johannes Poncius	Irish Roman Catholic theologian (Franciscan) and philosopher
31. May	Gregor Horst	German medic	34
May	Scipion Dupleix	French philosopher, historian and Romanist

June

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
6th of June	Martino Martini	Missionary, geographer, historian	46
June 11th	George II	Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1626–1661)	56
June 13th	Johann Hülsemann	German Lutheran theologian	58
June 19th	Christoph Gerdes	Mayor of Lübeck
June 19th	Johann Georg Oppel	Electoral Saxon lawyer and real secret council	66
June 21st	Andrea Sacchi	Italian painter	61
June 26th	Lazaro Valvasensi	Italian composer and organist

July

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
8th of July	Theophil Großgebauer	German Lutheran theologian	33
July 9	Friedrich	Count Palatine and Duke of Zweibrücken	45
July 9	Francesco Paolucci	Italian cardinal of the Roman Church	79
July 11th	Vain Friedrich II.	Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen	60
17th July	Christian Schumann	Dresden councilor and mayor	57
July 19	Simon Hennings	German Lutheran theologian and clergyman	53
21 July	Antonius Hambroek	Dutch missionary in the service of the Dutch East India Company
July 25th	Bernard de Nogaret de La Valette d'Épernon	French aristocrat and military commander
29th of July	Valerian of Magnis	Provincial of the Austrian-Bohemian Order Province of the Capuchins	74

August

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
6th of August	Angélique Arnauld	French abbess	69
August 16	Thomas Fuller	English historian
August 24th	August von Hanow	German officer, captain in Thuringia	70
29th August	Louis Couperin	French composer, organist and violinist

September

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
September 11	Jan Fyt	Flemish painter	50
September 11	Cornelius Schrevelius	Dutch classical philologist	53
13.september	Johann Balthasar Liesch von Hornau	Auxiliary bishop and diocese administrator in Wroclaw	69
13.september	Heinrich von Poser and Groß-Naedlitz	Silesian chief tax collector and world traveler	62
September 15th	Johannes Vervaux	German Jesuit, historian and confessor of Maximilian I of Bavaria
September 22	Christoph Bach	Grandfather of Johann Sebastian Bach	48
September 24th	Georges de Brébeuf	French writer and translator of the baroque and early classical periods
September 29th	Marcus von Eickstedt	ducal Pomeranian politician, diplomat and civil servant
September 29th	Ștefăniță Lupu	Ruler of the Principality of Moldova
September 29th	Marc-Antoine Girard de Saint-Amant	French lyric poet of the baroque	66

October

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
October 2nd	Paul Rotenburger	German organ builder	62
4th of October	Jacqueline Pascal	Sister of Blaise Pascal and a Roman Catholic nun	36
October 6th	Har Rai	Guru of Sikhism	31
October 6th	Martin Zeiller	German author	72
October, 16th	Johan Franck	Swedish doctor and botanist	71
October 19th	Franz von Cramm	German court official	51
October 26th	Johann Balthasar Schupp	German satirical writer and spiritual lyric poet	51
October 31	Köprülü Mehmed Pascha	Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
October	Gérard Desargues	French mathematician	70

November

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
November 1st	Philipp Prosper of Spain	Infant of Spain and Portugal	3
November 1st	Jonas Schlichting	Polish theologian
November 2	Daniel Seghers	Flemish painter
November 7th	Moritz von Büren	last Baron von Büren, President of the Reich Chamber of Commerce in Speyer	57
November 7th	Heinrich Schaevius	German high school teacher and poet
November 9th	Giacomo Giordano	Italian Benedictine and Catholic bishop
November 10th	Bernardino Spada	Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church	67
November 11th	David Ryckaert	Flemish painter	48
November 16	João Lourenço Rebelo	Portuguese composer, court composer to King João IV of Portugal
November 26th	Luis Méndez de Haro y Guzmán	Spanish minister	63
November 29th	Christoph von Houwald	Royal Swedish, Electoral Saxon and Kurbrandenburg General, Lord of the Straupitz, Maldeiten, Triecken and Posorten rulers	59
November 29th	Brian Walton	British orientalist and Bishop of Chester

December

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
December 1	Franz Wilhelm von Wartenberg	Bishop of Osnabrück	68
December 4th	Murad Bakhsh	Mughal Mughal of India	37
December 7th	Ariana Nozeman	first professional actress in the Netherlands
December 27th	Ambrosius Profe	German organist, composer and music editor	72

Date unknown

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
	Johann Cothmann	German lawyer and diplomat
	Georg Decker	German printer and publisher in Basel
	François Dusart	17th century Flemish sculptor
	Thomas Eder von Kainbach	Imperial court paymaster, Styrian court pfennig master and younger brother of Andreas Eder von Kainbach
	Andreas Frisch	Austrian carpenter and altar builder
	Johan Huydecoper van Maarsseveen	Mayor of Amsterdam
	Richard Mico	English composer
	Vasile Lupu	Voivode of the Principality of Moldova
	Cornelis van Senen	Indonesian teacher, Calvinist preacher and landowner
	Hendrick van Uylenburgh	Dutch art dealer
	Johann Volkamer	German merchant and manufacturer and garden lover
	Cornelis Vroom	Dutch painter
	Johann Ludwig von Wolzüge	Austrian philosopher and theologian and as such a representative of early modern socinianism
	Johann Siegmund Wurffbain	German traveler to East India

Footnotes

↑ Johann Gottfried Michaelis : Dreßdnische Inscriptiones und Epitaphia, On which monuments of those who rest in God / are buried here in and outside the church to our dear women, and expect a joyous rise to find / those who have died to perpetual Andean corners / those who are living but to the mirror and willing succession, sought together with all diligence / and for public printing / along with a historical preface by the intended church . Self-published by the author, Dresden 1714, p. 8 ( digitized version of SLUB Dresden; online in the Google book search).

[Christian_Schumann-1] Johann Gottfried Michaelis : Dreßdnische Inscriptiones und Epitaphia, On which monuments of those who rest in God / are buried here in and outside the church to our dear women, and expect a joyous rise to find / those who have died to perpetual Andean corners / those who are living but to the mirror and willing succession, sought together with all diligence / and for public printing / along with a historical preface by the intended church . Self-published by the author, Dresden 1714, p. 8 ( digitized version of SLUB Dresden; online in the Google book search).