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May 22, 1609Born on Saturday May 23, 1609
- Reinier van Heemskerck († 1639)
- Paulus Teding van Berkhout, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1672)
- Jeanne KEKERAERT, Crombeke († 1654)
- Marie Buisson, La Ferté sous Jouarre,77260,Seine-et-Marne,Île-de-France,FRANCE († 1659)
- Naeleken van Santfort, Nijmegen
- Reinier Beest van Heemskerck († 1639)
- Daniel Allart, Keulen (Dld.)
- Reinier VAN BEEST VAN HEEMSKERCK († 1639)
Died on Saturday May 23, 1609
- Berendt Hueten
- Johannes Stenger (0), Laasphe, Kreis Wittgenstein
Born on May 23
- 1586 » Paul Siefert, German composer and organist († 1666)
- 1606 » Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish mathematician and philosopher († 1682)
- 1614 » Bertholet Flemalle, Flemish Baroque painter († 1675)
- 1617 » Elias Ashmole, English astrologer and politician († 1692)
- 1629 » William VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, noble of Hesse-Kassel († 1663)
- 1707 » Carl Linnaeus, Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist († 1778)
- 1718 » William Hunter, Scottish-English anatomist and physician († 1783)
- 1729 » Giuseppe Parini, Italian poet and educator († 1799)
- 1730 » Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia, Prussian prince and general († 1813)
- 1734 » Franz Mesmer, German physician and astrologer († 1815)
Died on May 23
- 1498 » Girolamo Savonarola, Italian friar and preacher (b. 1452)
- 1523 » Ashikaga Yoshitane, Japanese shōgun (b. 1466)
- 1524 » Ismail I, First Emperor of Safavid Empire (b. 1487)
- 1591 » John Blitheman, English organist and composer (b. 1525)
- 1662 » John Gauden, English bishop (b. 1605)
- 1670 » Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1610)
- 1691 » Adrien Auzout, French astronomer and instrument maker (b. 1622)
- 1701 » William Kidd, Scottish pirate (b. 1645)
- 1749 » Abraham ben Abraham, Polish martyr (b. 1700)
- 1752 » William Bradford, English-American printer (b. 1663)
Names that were popular for boys in 1609
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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 9 » Eighty Years' War: Spain and the Dutch Republic sign the Treaty of Antwerp to initiate twelve years of truce.
- May 20 » Shakespeare's sonnets are first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by the publisher Thomas Thorpe.
- July 30 » Beaver Wars: At Ticonderoga (now Crown Point, New York), Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs on behalf of his native allies.
- August 25 » Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.
- September 13 » Henry Hudson reaches the river that would later be named after him - the Hudson River.