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Born on Thursday December 31, 1609
- Maria Martinus Gerardus de Kort, Oisterwijk
- Sester Hanses, Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands
- Peter Peterszoon Vennix, Tilburg
- Maria Martinus Gerardus de Cort, Oisterwijk († 1623)
- Jochim Lubbertsen v Rouwenburg, Nijkerk
- Joanna De Herde, Hove,, Antwerpen, België
- Gisbertus Raedts, Sevenum
- Gisbertus Simonis, Sevenum
- Jochim Lubberts van Rouwenburgh, Nijkerk, Gelderland, Ned
- Edward Holman Holeman, Taunton, Somerset, England († 1675)
Died on Thursday December 31, 1609
- Aeltgen (Anna) Jans van Boncamp (64), Utrecht, overluidingen
- Gillis Valckenier (10), Amsterdam
- Henry Drake (61), Wiggey, Reigate, Surrey, England
- Gillis Valckenier (10), Amsterdam
Born on December 31
- 1504 » Beatrice of Portugal, Duchess of Savoy († 1538)
- 1514 » Andreas Vesalius, Belgian anatomist, physician, and author († 1564)
- 1539 » John Radcliffe, English politician († 1568)
- 1550 » Henry I, Duke of Guise († 1588)
- 1552 » Simon Forman, English occultist and astrologer († 1611)
- 1572 » Emperor Go-Yōzei of Japan, († 1617)
- 1585 » Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Spanish general and politician, 24th Governor of the Duchy of Milan († 1645)
- 1668 » Herman Boerhaave, Dutch botanist and physician († 1738)
- 1714 » Arima Yoriyuki, Japanese mathematician and educator († 1783)
- 1720 » Charles Edward Stuart, Scottish claimant to the throne of England († 1788)
Died on December 31
- 1535 » William Skeffington, English-Irish politician, Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. 1465)
- 1568 » Shimazu Tadayoshi, Japanese daimyō (b. 1493)
- 1575 » Pierino Belli, Italian commander and jurist (b. 1502)
- 1583 » Thomas Erastus, Swiss physician and theologian (b. 1524)
- 1610 » Ludolph van Ceulen, German-Dutch mathematician and academic (b. 1540)
- 1650 » Dorgon, Chinese emperor (b. 1612)
- 1655 » Janusz Radziwiłł, Polish–Lithuanian politician (b. 1612)
- 1673 » Oliver St John, English judge and politician, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas (b. 1598)
- 1679 » Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist (b. 1608)
- 1691 » Robert Boyle, Irish chemist and physicist (b. 1627)
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Source: Wikipedia Historical events 1609
- Stadhouder Prins Maurits (Huis van Oranje) was from 1585 till 1625 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
- April 4 » Moriscos are expelled from the Kingdom of Valencia.
- April 5 » Daimyō (Lord) Shimazu Tadatsune of the Satsuma Domain in southern Kyūshū, Japan, completes his successful invasion of the Ryūkyū Kingdom in Okinawa.
- April 9 » Philip III of Spain issues the decree of the "Expulsion of the Moriscos".
- May 20 » Shakespeare's sonnets are first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by the publisher Thomas Thorpe.
- August 28 » Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay.
- September 11 » Henry Hudson discovers Manhattan Island and the indigenous people living there.