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Months in Year 1626: January February April May July September October November December

Deaths 1 - 25 of 25

Jan 1st - Cornelis Pieterse Hoft, Amsterdam merchant/regent, dies at 68
Jan 21st - John Dowland, English composer (In Darkness We Dwell), dies at 62
Jan 24th - Samuel Argall, English adventurer and naval officer (b. 1580)
Feb 7th - William V, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1548)
Feb 11th - Pietro Cataldi, Italian mathematician (b. 1552)
Feb 20th - John Dowland, composer, dies
Feb 28th - Cyril Tourneur, English poet/dramatist, dies at about 51
Apr 9th - Francis Bacon, English statesman and philosopher, dies from pneumonia at 65
Apr 11th - Marin Getaldić, Croatian mathematician (b. 1568)
May 4th - Arthur Lake, Bishop of Bath and Wells, English bishop and Bible translator (b. 1569)
May 17th - Juan Pujol, Catalan composer (b. 1570)
Jul 5th - Stephan Fadinger, Austrian boer leader, dies in battle
Jul 13th - Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, English statesman (b. 1563)
Sep 21st - François de Bonne, duc de Lesdiguières, Constable of France (b. 1543)
Sep 26th - Lancelot Andrewes, English theologist/bishop of Winchester, dies at 71
Sep 26th - Wakisaka Yasuharu, Japanese warrior (b. 1554)
Sep 30th - Nurhaci, Manchurian chief (b. 1559)
Oct 2nd - Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, conde de Gondomar, Spanish diplomat (b. 1567)
Oct 30th - Willebrord Snellius (also Snell and Snel van Royen), Dutch astronomer/mathematician, dies at about 46
Statesman/Philosopher Francis Bacon (Apr 9th) Nov 25th - Edward Alleyn, English actor (b. 1566)
Nov 29th - Ernst, Graf von Mansfield, German soldier (c. 1580)
Nov 30th - Thomas Weelkes, English composer
Dec 8th - John Davies, English poet (b. 1569)
Dec 10th - Edmund Gunter, English mathematician (b. 1581)
Dec 15th - Adriaen de Vries, Dutch sculptor/painter, dies at about 70