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May 2, 1616Born on Tuesday May 3, 1616
- Emile le BLAN dit CANDIDUS, LIEGE (Saint-Adalbert), Liège, Belgique
- Leonardus Wouters Cornelissen Hagenaars, Roosendaal († 1682)
- Jan van NUIJS, Oisterwijk, 4060, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
- Leonardus Woutersz Hagenaars, Essen B († 1682)
- Lindert Wouterzn. Hagenaars, Essen, België
- Nicolaes Isaackszn Van BEECK, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Pays-Bas
- Gustaaf Gustafson van Zweden († 1653)
- Leonardus Wouters Hagenaers, Roosendaal († 1682)
- Richard Currier, Salisbury, Wiltshire, ENGLAND († 1687)
- Gustaaf Gustafson van Zweden († 1653)
Died on Tuesday May 3, 1616
- Maria Robrechtsdr. van der Mast (68)
- Richard Lewis* (79), Llantilio Pertholey, Monmouthshire, Wales
- Arnt Peter Zeben Colen
- William Shakespeare (52), Stratford-upon-Avon (Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, West Midlands)
- Catharina van Arlier
- Lewis Ap Richard (46), Llantilio Pertholey, Monmouthshire, Wales
- Mathieu Houba (d'Awans)
- Joannes Frederix (Freicks) #12 (41), Heerlen, Limburg, Nl
Born on May 3
- 1469 » Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian historian and philosopher († 1527)
- 1479 » Henry V, Duke of Mecklenburg († 1552)
- 1481 » Juana de la Cruz Vázquez Gutiérrez, Spanish abbess of the Franciscan Third Order Regular († 1534)
- 1536 » Stephan Praetorius, German theologian († 1603)
- 1632 » Catherine of St. Augustine, French-Canadian nurse and saint, founded the Hôtel-Dieu de Québec († 1668)
- 1662 » Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, German architect, designed the Pillnitz Castle († 1736)
- 1678 » Amaro Pargo, Spanish corsair († 1747)
- 1695 » Henri Pitot, French physicist and engineer, invented the Pitot tube († 1771)
- 1729 » Florian Leopold Gassmann, Czech composer († 1774)
- 1761 » August von Kotzebue, German playwright and author († 1819)
Died on May 3
- 1501 » John Devereux, 8th Baron Ferrers of Chartley, English Baron (b. 1463)
- 1524 » Richard Grey, 3rd Earl of Kent, English peer (b. 1481)
- 1534 » Juana de la Cruz Vazquez Gutierrez, Spanish Roman Catholic nun and venerable (b. 1481)
- 1589 » Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (b. 1528)
- 1606 » Henry Garnet, English priest and author (b. 1555)
- 1621 » Elizabeth Bacon, English Tudor gentlewoman (b. 1541)
- 1679 » James Sharp, Scottish archbishop (b. 1613)
- 1693 » Claude de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French courtier (b. 1607)
- 1704 » Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Czech-Austrian violinist and composer (b. 1644)
- 1724 » John Leverett the Younger, American lawyer, academic, and politician (b. 1662)
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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.
- 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 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.