Famous Deaths for Year 1679
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Months in Year 1679: January February March April May June July August September October November December
Deaths 1 - 31 of 31
Jan 9th - Werner Fabricius, composer, dies at 45
Jan 14th - Jacques de Billy, French mathematician (b. 1602)
Feb 3rd - Jan Havicksz Steen, Dutch painter (St Nicolas Feast), dies at 53
Feb 5th - Joost van den Vondel, Dutch poet (Gysbreght van Aemstel), dies at 91
Mar 16th - John Leverett, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1616)
Mar 26th - Johannes Schefferus, Alsatian-born humanist (b. 1621)
Mar 27th - Abraham Mignon, Dutch still life painter, dies at 38
Apr 17th - John van Kessel, Flemish painter, dies at 53
Apr 18th - Hofmannswaldau, writer, dies
May 1st - Esaias Reusner, composer, dies at 43
May 3rd - James Sharp, English archbishop (assassinated) (b. 1613)
May 26th - Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria (b. 1636)
Jun 3rd - Jean-Francius Miller, painter, buried
Jun 15th - Guillaume Courtois, French painter (b. 1628)
Jun 27th - Pablo Bruna, composer, dies at 68
Jul 8th - Samuel J Columbus, Swedish poet (Odae Sveticae), dies
Jul 11th - William Chamberlayne, English poet (b. 1619)
Aug 6th - John Snell, English royalist (b. 1629)
Aug 20th - Jacob Alting, Dutch theologist, dies at 60
Aug 24th - Jean François Paul de Gondi, cardinal de Retz, French churchman and agitator (b. 1614)
Sep 17th - Juan Jose of Austrian, Spanish general/govenor of Netherlands, dies at 50
Sep 20th - Cornelis Evertsen the Young, vice-admiral of Zealand, dies at 51
Oct 12th - William Gurnall, English writer (b. 1617)
Oct 24th - Barent Avercamp, Dutch landscape painter, dies at about 66
Oct 26th - Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, British soldier, statesman, and dramatist (b. 1621)
Nov 30th - Pieter van Schooten, Dutch mathematician/fort architect, dies at 45
Dec 4th - Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher (b. 1588)
Dec 17th - Don Juan, ruler of Spain, dies
Dec 20th - Johan Maurits, count of Nassau-Siegen, dies at 75
Dec 26th - John van de Cappelle, Amsterdam landscape painter, dies at 53
Dec 31st - Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist (b. 1608)
