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July 7, 1616Born on Friday July 8, 1616
- Karel van Maltitz Heer van Schenkenberg († 1691)
- Adriana Corneliusdr, Hilvarenbeek
- Eloi Jarry dit la Haye II, Alençon, Orne, Basse-Normandie, France († 1661)
- Adriana Nuydts, Halle
- Eloi Jarry, St Martin Dige, Alencon, Orne, France († 1661)
- Karl von Miltitz († 1691)
- Robert Caron, Charente-Maritime, Poitou-Charentes, France († 1656)
Died on Friday July 8, 1616
- Adriaen Joostens Rijver van der Valck (77), Naaldwijk
- Adriaan Joosten van der valk (77), Naaldwijk
- Joostens Rijver Van der Valck (77), Naaldwijk
- Adriaean Joostens Rijver van der Valck (77), Naaldwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
- Adriaen Jooste van der Valck (77), Naaldwijk
- (van der Valck) (77), Naaldwijk, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
- Adriaen Joostens Rijver van der Valck (77), Naaldwijk, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
- Philipotta Amelisdochter van Utenengh (81)
Born on July 8
- 1478 » Gian Giorgio Trissino, Italian linguist, poet, and playwright († 1550)
- 1528 » Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy († 1580)
- 1538 » Alberto Bolognetti, Roman Catholic cardinal († 1585)
- 1545 » Carlos, Prince of Asturias († 1568)
- 1593 » Artemisia Gentileschi, Italian painter († 1653)
- 1621 » Jean de La Fontaine, French author and poet († 1695)
- 1760 » Christian Kramp, French mathematician and academic († 1826)
- 1766 » Dominique Jean Larrey, French surgeon († 1842)
- 1779 » Giorgio Pullicino, Maltese painter and architect († 1851)
- 1819 » Francis Leopold McClintock, Irish admiral and explorer († 1907)
Died on July 8
- 1538 » Diego de Almagro, Spanish general and explorer (b. 1475)
- 1623 » Pope Gregory XV (b. 1554)
- 1689 » Edward Wooster, English-American settler (b. 1622)
- 1695 » Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (b. 1629)
- 1716 » Robert South, English preacher and theologian (b. 1634)
- 1721 » Elihu Yale, American-English merchant and philanthropist (b. 1649)
- 1784 » Torbern Bergman, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (b. 1735)
- 1794 » Richard Mique, French architect (b. 1728)
- 1820 » Octavia Taylor, daughter of Zachary Taylor (b. 1816)
- 1822 » Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet and playwright (b. 1792)
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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)
- 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.
- 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.