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July 20, 1609Born on Tuesday July 21, 1609
- Dionijs Jan Peter van Dijck, Loenhout (B)
- Andreas De Vroeij, Sint-Michiel, Leuven, V-Br, BE
- Anna Margaretha Mang, Nuertingen,Schwarzwaldkreis,Wuerttemberg
- Mahieu3 DOOM, Hooglede, 36006, West-Vlaanderen, Belgique († 1669)
- Balthasar van Baruth († 1692)
- Balthasar von Baruth († 1692)
- Dionijs Jan Peter Dijck van, Loenhout, België († 1666)
- Dionijs Jan Peter VAN DIJCK, Loenhout, Wuustwezel, Province of Antwerp (Middle Brabant), Belgium († 1666)
- Dionisius Jansen Denijs VAN DIJCK, Loenhout († 1671)
Died on Tuesday July 21, 1609
- John De Stevens (86), Caversham, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom
- John Stephens 15gN (69), Bishops Canning, Wiltshire, England
Born on July 21
- 1476 » Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara († 1534)
- 1515 » Philip Neri, Italian Roman Catholic saint († 1595)
- 1535 » García Hurtado de Mendoza, 5th Marquis of Cañete, Royal Governor of Chile († 1609)
- 1616 » Anna de' Medici, Archduchess of Austria († 1676)
- 1620 » Jean Picard, French astronomer († 1682)
- 1648 » John Graham, 1st Viscount Dundee, Scottish general († 1689)
- 1654 » Pedro Calungsod, Filipino catechist and sacristan; later canonized († 1672)
- 1664 » Matthew Prior, English poet and diplomat, British Ambassador to France († 1721)
- 1693 » Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom († 1768)
- 1710 » Paul Möhring, German physician, botanist, and zoologist († 1792)
Died on July 21
- 1403 » Edmund Stafford, 5th Earl of Stafford, English soldier
- 1403 » Henry Percy, English soldier (b. 1364)
- 1403 » Sir Walter Blount, English soldier, standard-bearer of Henry IV
- 1425 » Manuel II Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (b. 1350)
- 1552 » Antonio de Mendoza, Spanish politician, 1st Viceroy of New Spain (b. 1495)
- 1688 » James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1610)
- 1793 » Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux, French admiral, explorer, and politician (b. 1739)
- 1796 » Robert Burns, Scottish poet and songwriter (b. 1759)
- 1798 » Anthony Perry, Irish rebel leader (b. ca. 1760)
- 1798 » François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal (b. 1733)
Names that were popular for boys in 1609
- Jan
- John
- Cornelis
- Joannes
- Pieter
- Jacob
- Thomas
- William
- Petrus
- Willem
- Johannes
- Richard
- Johan
- Johann
- Gerrit
- Jean
Names that were popular for girls in 1609
- Anna
- Maria
- Catharina
- Elisabeth
- Elizabeth
- Mary
- Anne
- Barbara
- Joanna
- Marie
- Sarah
- Margaret
- Margaretha
- Lijsbeth
- Henrietta
- Jeanne
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 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 » 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 25 » The English ship Sea Venture, en route to Virginia, is deliberately driven ashore during a storm at Bermuda to prevent its sinking; the survivors go on to found a new colony there.
- August 25 » Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.
- August 28 » Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay.