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May 28, 1616Born on Sunday May 29, 1616
- Adrianus Smoudt, Wouw
- Gijsbert Hubert de Wilde, Baarle Nassau
- Jan Jacobse TROOST, Heinenoord († 1689)
- Pieter Pieters van Muijlwijck, Oud Alblas
- Elisabetha Trappeniers, Kortenberg
- Jan Jacobse Troost, Heinenoord, Nederland († 1689)
- Elisabetha Trappeniers, Kortenberg
- Jan Jacobs Troost, Heinenoord
- Gerardus Vercammen, Rijmenam
- Cornelis Kraaykamp, Amersfoort († 1708)
Died on Sunday May 29, 1616
- Rev. William Bincks (59), Scalford, Leicestershire, England
- Winand VAN OEYEN (55), Leuth, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Winand von Oeijen (55), Leuth (Dld)
- Wijnand van Oeyen (55), Leuth (Dld)
- Joannes Aerts, Berlaar
- John or Jhone Rynd Rindge (48)
- Jan Zeghers Blom
Born on May 29
- 1504 » Antun Vrančić, Croatian archbishop († 1573)
- 1555 » George Carew, 1st Earl of Totnes, English Earl, general and administrator († 1629)
- 1568 » Virginia de' Medici, Italian princess († 1615)
- 1594 » Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Bavarian field marshal († 1632)
- 1627 » Anne, Duchess of Montpensier, French princess († 1693)
- 1630 » Charles II of England († 1685)
- 1675 » Humphry Ditton, English mathematician and philosopher († 1715)
- 1716 » Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, French zoologist and mineralogist († 1800)
- 1722 » James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, Irish soldier and politician († 1773)
- 1730 » Jackson of Exeter, English organist and composer († 1803)
Died on May 29
- 1453 » Constantine XI Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (b. 1404)
- 1453 » Ulubatlı Hasan, Ottoman commander (b. 1428)
- 1500 » Bartolomeu Dias, Portuguese explorer and navigator (b. 1451)
- 1500 » Thomas Rotherham, English cleric and minister (b. 1423)
- 1546 » David Beaton, Scottish cardinal and politician, Lord Chancellor of Scotland (b. 1494)
- 1593 » John Penry, Welsh martyr (b. 1559)
- 1660 » Frans van Schooten, Dutch mathematician and academic (b. 1615)
- 1691 » Cornelis Tromp, Dutch admiral (b. 1629)
- 1790 » Israel Putnam, American general (b. 1718)
- 1796 » Carl Fredrik Pechlin, Swedish general and politician (b. 1720)
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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.
- March 5 » Nicolaus Copernicus's book On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres is added to the Index of Forbidden Books 73 years after it was first published.
- 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.