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Born on Saturday February 9, 1608
- Honorine Françoise de Licques († 1678)
- Anna Verwerft, Mechelen
- Joannes (Jean) Stalpaert, Adinkerke (Duinkerke), WVld, Be
- Thomas Judd, Langley, Kent, England († 1688)
- Jacob Karel Gielis Teulings, Zegers-Cappel
- Ferdinandus Stalpaert, Adinkerke (Duinkerke), WVld, Be
Died on Saturday February 9, 1608
Born on February 9
- 1533 » Shimazu Yoshihisa, Japanese daimyō († 1611)
- 1579 » Johannes Meursius, Dutch classical scholar († 1639)
- 1651 » Procopio Cutò, French entrepreneur († 1727)
- 1666 » George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney, Scottish field marshal († 1737)
- 1711 » Luis Vicente de Velasco e Isla, Spanish sailor and commander († 1762)
- 1737 » Thomas Paine, English-American philosopher, author, and activist († 1809)
- 1741 » Henri-Joseph Rigel, German-French composer († 1799)
- 1748 » Sir John Duckworth, 1st Baronet, English admiral and politician, Commodore Governor of Newfoundland († 1817)
- 1763 » Louis I, Grand Duke of Baden († 1830)
- 1769 » George W. Campbell, Scottish-American lawyer and politician, 5th United States Secretary of the Treasury († 1848)
Died on February 9
- 1450 » Agnès Sorel, French mistress of Charles VII of France (b. 1421)
- 1555 » John Hooper, English bishop and martyr (b. 1495)
- 1555 » Rowland Taylor, English priest and martyr (b. 1510)
- 1588 » Álvaro de Bazán, 1st Marquis of Santa Cruz, Spanish admiral (b. 1526)
- 1600 » John Frederick, Duke of Pomerania (b. 1542)
- 1619 » Lucilio Vanini, Italian physician and philosopher (b. 1585)
- 1640 » Murad IV, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1612)
- 1670 » Frederick III of Denmark (b. 1609)
- 1675 » Gerrit Dou, Dutch painter (b. 1613)
- 1709 » François Louis, Prince of Conti (b. 1664)
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Source: Wikipedia Historical events 1608
- Stadhouder Prins Maurits (Huis van Oranje) was from 1585 till 1625 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
- January 7 » Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia.
- January 17 » Emperor Susenyos I of Ethiopia surprises an Oromo army at Ebenat; his army reportedly kills 12,000 Oromo at the cost of 400 of his men.
- March 18 » Susenyos is formally crowned Emperor of Ethiopia.
- May 14 » The Protestant Union, a coalition of Protestant German states, is founded to defend the rights, land and safety of each member against the Catholic Church and Catholic German states.
- June 3 » Samuel de Champlain completes his third voyage to New France at Tadoussac, Quebec.
- August 24 » The first official English representative to India lands in Surat.