Famous Deaths for Year 1640
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Months in Year 1640: January February March April May June July October November December
Deaths 1 - 20 of 20
Jan 14th - Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry, English lawyer and judge (b. 1578)
Jan 22nd - Erasmus Quellinus I, Flemish wood carver, dies at about 55
Jan 25th - Robert Burton, author (Anatomy of Melancholy), dies
Feb 4th - Hendrick C Vroom, Dutch seascape painter, dies
Feb 9th - Murad IV, sultan of Turkey (1623-40), dies in Baghdad at 27
Mar 8th - Guillaume van Messaus, composer, dies at 50
Mar 17th - Philip Massinger, dramatist, dies
Apr 2nd - Matthias C Sarbiewski, [Sarbievius], Polish jesuit/poet, dies at 45
Apr 10th - Agostino Agazzari, Italian composer, dies at 61
Apr 10th - Charlotte Flandrina van Nassau, daughter of Willem I, dies at 60
May 30th - Andre Duchesne, French historian/genealogy, dies
May 30th - Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter, dies at 62
Jun 3rd - Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, English politician (b. 1584)
Jul 12th - Henry Casimir I, count of Nassau-Dietz, dies
Oct 20th - John Ball, English Puritan clergyman (b. 1585)
Oct 26th - Pietro Tacca, Italian sculptor/architect, dies at 63
Nov 25th - Giles Farnaby, composer, dies
Dec 6th - Matthijs Elsevier, Flemish/Dutch book publisher/merchant, dies at 75
Dec 9th - Pierre Fourier, Roman Catholic saint and French priest (b.1565)
Dec 30th - John Francis Regis, French saint (b. 1597)
