Nekrolog 1679

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This is a list of famous people who died in 1679 . 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 9th	Werner Fabricius	German organist and composer	45
January 9th	Ostap Hohol	Hetman of the right bank of Ukraine
January 14th	Jacques de Billy	French Jesuit, mathematician and astronomer	76
15. January	Georg Philipp Finckh	German cartographer
21th January	Henri Louis Habert de Montmor	French scholar
January 24th	Ulderico Carpegna	cardinal	83
January 24th	Moritz Heinrich	Prince of Nassau-Hadamar	52
January 26th	Domenico Carlone	Italian builder and plasterer

February

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
3 February	Jan Steen	Dutch painter
February 4th	Samuel Franck	German church musician
February 5th	Joost van den Vondel	Dutch poet and playwright	91
February 6th	Margherita de 'Medici	Duchess of Parma and Piacenza	66
February 10th	Hugo Schuckmann	German merchant and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck
February 18	Anne Conway	English philosopher	47
19th of February	Henricus Regius	Dutch philosopher and physician	80
19th of February	Domenico Sciassia	Master builder of St. Lambrecht
February	Lucas Bacmeister	German Lutheran theologian

March

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
2nd March	Johann Thomasius	German lawyer, statesman and poet	54
4th of March	Henrik Ruse	Dutch fortress builder	54
March 11	Luise Marie of the Palatinate	Titular Countess Palatine near the Rhine, by marriage Princess of Salm	31
March 13th	Christiane von Sachsen-Merseburg	Princess of Saxe-Merseburg and Duchess of Saxe-Eisenberg	19th
the 14th of March	Daniel Lipstorp	German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and orientalist, main pastor of Lübeck Cathedral and senior of the Ministry of Spirituality	78
March 16	Johann Friedrich von Marschalck	Chancellor of the Danish King for Norway	60
17. March	Adolph Gottfried Volusius	Auxiliary Bishop of Mainz
26th of March	Johannes Scheffer	German-Swedish scholar	58
27th of March	Abraham Mignon	German-Dutch painter	38
March 31	Nathanael Dilger	German Lutheran theologian	74

April

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
7th of April	Alexander Magnus von Sydow	Brandenburg colonel, heir to Gossow, Falkenwalde and Ortwig	56
10th of April	Gottfried Schilter	German legal scholar	35
April 15th	Anne Geneviève de Bourbon-Condé	Duchess of Longueville, Princess of Neufchatel	59
April 15th	Johann Bertram von Wylre	Mayor of the imperial city of Aachen
April 16	Heinrich Coelestin von Sternbach	German legal scholar
April 18	Jacob Cröpelin	Master of the wood cutting art
April 18	Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau	German-Silesian poet and epigrammatist, politician and diplomat
April 21	Friedrich Geissler	German legal scholar	42
April 22	Aloysius Bevilacqua	Italian clergyman, titular Latin Patriarch of Alexandria
April 22	Giovanni Battista Passeri	Italian painter
April 24th	Johann Siegmund von Osterhausen	Nobleman	66
April	Louis d'Arpajon	French general

May

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
May 3rd	Jón Ólafsson	Icelandic adventurer who toured both Svalbard and India in Danish service	85
8th of May	Pierre de la Cave	Major General of Brandenburg, Governor of the Pillau Fortress, secret council of war and chamberlain	73
May 11th	Esaias Reusner	German lutenist and composer	43
May 15	Atlas Crusius	Mayor of Chemnitz	72
25. May	Johann Georg Albini	German theologian and poet	55
May 26	Ferdinand Maria	Elector of Bavaria	42

June

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
8th June	Johann Peter Vogt	royal Danish major general and most recently in command of Wismar	58
14th June	Guillaume Courtois	Italian history and church painter
17th of June	John Hamilton, 1st Lord Belhaven and Stenton	Scottish nobleman
June 27th	Pablo Bruna	Spanish organist and composer	68

July

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
July 14th	Giovanni Domenico Orsi de Orsini	bohemian architect
July 18th	Balthasar Mentzer the Younger	German theologian	65
July 25th	Johann Sebastian midnight	German theologian, rhetorician, pedagogue, playwright and baroque poet	66
July 27th	Cornelis van der Lijn	Governor General of the Dutch East Indies
July 28th	Elias Birnstiel	German clergyman and scholar

August

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
August 2nd	Gerhard Bernhard von Pölnitz	Brandenburg major general and politician	62
6th of August	Johann von Sporck	Imperial and royal Austrian general of the cavalry	79
12. August	Marie de Rohan-Montbazon, duchesse de Chevreuse	French nobles and frondeuse	78
12. August	Zacharias Grape	German Lutheran theologian
18th of August	Gustav Philipp of Pfalz-Veldenz	Hereditary Prince of the County of Veldenz	28
20th of August	Jacob Alting	German theologian	60
August 23	Johann Georg von Götzen	Governor of the County of Glatz
August 24th	Jean-François Paul de Gondi	French cardinal, statesman and author
August 27	Hieronymus Cirnhaim	bohemian philosopher	42
August 27	David Lewis	Welsh Jesuit, martyr
August 27	Otto of Limburg-Styrum	Noblemen and military
August 28th	Alfonso Litta	Italian archbishop and cardinal	70

September

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
September 2nd	Johann Duve	German merchant and banker	68
September 2nd	Gottfried Gesius	German theologian, pastor and senior
17th of September	Juan José de Austria	Spanish military leader and statesman	50
September 22	Anna Maria Sterck	Swabian girl who was persecuted as a witch	11
September 26th	Karl Heinrich von Metternich-Winneburg	Archbishop of Mainz	57
September	John Mayow	English physiologist and chemist	39

October

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
October 1	Antonia of Württemberg	Princess of Württemberg as well as a writer, patron, Christian Kabbalist and donor of the Kabbalistic teaching board in the Trinity Church in Bad Teinach-Zavelstein	66
October 10th	Lorenz Bünsow	German teacher	48
October, 16th	Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery	English statesman and writer	58
October, 16th	Statius Speckhan	Mayor of Bremen	80
October 24th	Barent Avercamp	Dutch painter

November

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
November 1st	Christian Friedrich Franckenstein	German pedagogue, philologist and historian	58
November 11th	Rosina Schnorr	German entrepreneur	61
November 12th	Frans Burman	Dutch Reformed theologian	51
November 12th	Giovanni Felice Sances	Italian composer and singer
14th November	Otto von Schwerin	Prussian politician, Minister of Brandenburg-Prussia	63
November 24th	Paul from Aussem	Auxiliary Bishop and Vicar General in Cologne
November 24th	Elisabeth Beling	German donor	84
November	Johann Raue	German librarian

December

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
2. December	Johann Bush II.	Legal scholar	67
3rd of December	Aaron Simeon Spira-Wedeles	Jewish scholar and rabbi
December 4th	Thomas Hobbes	English mathematician, state theorist and philosopher	91
December 5th	Christoph Joachim Bucholtz	German legal scholar and mayor of Hameln	72
9th of December	Johann Georg von Syberg	German nobleman, Lord of Wischelingen and Drost of Blankenstein
10th of December	Francesco Barberini	Italian cardinal, antiquarian and patron	82
December 14th	Andreas Rudolph	German builder, architect, librarian and mathematician	78
20th of December	Johann Moritz	Prince of Nassau-Siegen and Dutch field marshal	75
December 28th	Johann Friedrich	Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg and Braunschweig-Calenberg	54
December 31	Giovanni Alfonso Borelli	Italian physicist and astronomer	71
December 31	Abraham Gulich	Philosopher in Hamm
December	Jan Victors	Dutch painter and draftsman	60

Date unknown

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
	Antonio Barbaro	Politician of the Republic of Venice
	Dietrich Becker	German composer and violinist
	Crato Butner	German composer
	Jan van de Cappelle	Dutch marine painter
	Philip de Chiese	Chamberlain, Builder and Quartermaster General
	Wolfgang Friedrich Cob from Nüdingen	Imperial General Feldzeugmeister
	Roger Conant	American pioneer settler, founder of Salem (Massachusetts)
	Nicolaas I van Eyck	Flemish portrait and genre painter
	Gerolamo Forabosco	Italian painter
	Gaspare Guercio	Italian architect and baroque sculptor
	Václav František Kocmánek	Czech poet, writer and historian
	Wilhelm Christoph Kriegsmann	German pietist and hermetic
	Thomas Modyford	Governor of Jamaica (from 1666) and patron of the pirate Henry Morgan
	Isaac Penington	British author, Quaker
	Lambert Reynst	Mayor of Amsterdam
	Johann Spillenberger	German painter
	Villum Clausen	Danish freedom fighter
	Nicolaes Visscher I	Cartographer, publisher