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April 18, 1616Born on Tuesday April 19, 1616
- Ludwig VON BRIEG IV, Brzeg, Opole Volvodeship, Silesia († 1663)
- Lodewijk IV. van Silezië-Liegnitz († 1663)
- Franciscus Verstockt, Tielen
- Ludwig Van Silezie Liegnitz († 1663)
- JOHANNES LEENDERTSEN VAN BLERCK, OUDENBOSCH († 1657)
- Johannes Leendertsen Blerck van, Oudenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1657)
- Jochem van Winseler, Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
- Joannes Lenaertsen, Oudenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1657)
- Ludwig IV von Brieg und Liegnitz, Brzeg, Opole, Poland († 1663)
- Anneken Jansd Muys, Alblasserdam, zh.nld
Died on Tuesday April 19, 1616
- Agnes Klare (die Ältere) (38), Osnabruck, Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, Duitsland
- Joseph Killigrew (25)
- Agnes Agnesa Froböse (61)
- Agnes -onbekend- (46), Osnabrück (Duitsland)
- Marie Henri Johan ERNOLET, HERVE, Liège, Belgique
- Maria Paes (58), São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil
- Gerrit Cornelis
- Agnesa Froböse (56), Osnabrück
- Heintz Hermanns
- Agnes Froböse (60), Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, Duitsland
Born on April 19
- 1593 » Sir John Hobart, 2nd Baronet, English politician († 1647)
- 1603 » Michel Le Tellier, French politician, French Minister of Defence († 1685)
- 1613 » Christoph Bach, German musician († 1661)
- 1633 » Willem Drost, Dutch painter († 1659)
- 1655 » George St Lo(e), Royal Navy officer and administrator († 1718)
- 1658 » Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine, German husband of Archduchess Maria Anna Josepha of Austria († 1716)
- 1665 » Jacques Lelong, French author († 1721)
- 1686 » Vasily Tatishchev, Russian ethnographer and politician († 1750)
- 1715 » James Nares, English organist and composer († 1783)
- 1721 » Roger Sherman, American lawyer and politician († 1793)
Died on April 19
- 1560 » Philip Melanchthon, German theologian and reformer (b. 1497)
- 1567 » Michael Stifel, German monk and mathematician (b. 1487)
- 1578 » Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1530)
- 1588 » Paolo Veronese, Italian painter (b. 1528)
- 1608 » Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, English poet, playwright, and politician, Lord High Treasurer (b. 1536)
- 1618 » Thomas Bastard, English priest and author (b. 1566)
- 1619 » Jagat Gosain, Mughal empress (b. 1573)
- 1629 » Sigismondo d'India, Italian composer (b. 1582)
- 1632 » Sigismund III Vasa, king of Sweden and Poland (b. 1566)
- 1686 » Antonio de Solís y Ribadeneyra, Spanish historian and playwright (b. 1610)
Names that were popular for boys in 1616
- Jan
- Cornelis
- John
- Jacob
- Joannes
- Thomas
- Pieter
- William
- Jean
- Willem
- Petrus
- Johannes
- Robert
- James
- Johan
- Johann
Names that were popular for girls in 1616
- Maria
- Anna
- Catharina
- Elizabeth
- Elisabeth
- Joanna
- Mary
- Marie
- Cornelia
- Neeltje
- Anne
- Sarah
- Adriana
- Margaretha
- Jannetje
- Margaret
Source: Wikipedia Historical events 1616
- Stadhouder Prins Maurits (Huis van Oranje) was from 1585 till 1625 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
- January 12 » The city of Belém, Brazil is founded on the Amazon River delta, by Portuguese captain Francisco Caldeira Castelo Branco.
- February 26 » Galileo Galilei is formally banned by the Roman Catholic Church from teaching or defending the view that the earth orbits the sun.
- March 20 » Sir Walter Raleigh is freed from the Tower of London after 13 years of imprisonment.
- May 3 » Treaty of Loudun ends French civil war.
- July 11 » Samuel de Champlain returns to Quebec.
- October 25 » Dutch sea-captain Dirk Hartog makes the second recorded landfall by a European on Australian soil, at the later-named Dirk Hartog Island off the West Australian coast.