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- Christianus Scholiers, Sint Gillis Dendermonde
- Foucke Gerrits, Langweer († 1642)
- Mattheus Hendriks van Calker (van Calcar), Burgsteinfurt (Noordrijn-Westfalen, Duitsland) († 1692)
- Mattheus van Calcar, Burgsteinfurt (Dld) († 1692)
- Nicole GUYOT, Noyalo (56)
- Mattheus van Calcar, Burg Steinfurt († 1692)
- Maria Seeger, Dornstetten, Freudenstadt, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany († 1617)
- Abigail de Kneuvel, Amersfoort
- Mattheus van Calcar Van Calker, Burg,Steinfort,Germany († 1692)
- Mattheus Hendriks van Calker, Burg Steinfurt, Noordrijn-Westfalen, Duitsland (doopsgezind) († 1692)
Died on Saturday August 6, 1616
- Robbrecht Pietersz Schilperoort, Delft
- Eelkje Gerbens (46), Janum
- Luytje Craeyvanger (51)
- Lucretia Kraaijvanger (51), Arnhem
- Lucretia Craeyvanger (51), Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
- Lucretia Reijnders OR Lutgarda (Luijtje) Craeyvanger OR Crayenvanger OR Kraaijvanger (51), Arnhem
- Anna Beck (77), Ebingen, Wurttemberg, Germany
- Lucretia (Luijtje) Craeyvanger (51), Arnhem
- Lucretia Craeyvanger (51), Arnhem, Arnhem, Gelderland, The Netherlands
- Lutgarda Crayenvanger (51)
Born on August 6
- 1572 » Fakhr-al-Din II, Ottoman prince († 1635)
- 1605 » Bulstrode Whitelocke, English lawyer († 1675)
- 1609 » Richard Bennett, English-American politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia († 1675)
- 1619 » Barbara Strozzi, Italian composer and singer-songwriter († 1677)
- 1622 » Tjerk Hiddes de Vries, Dutch admiral († 1666)
- 1638 » Nicolas Malebranche, French priest and philosopher († 1715)
- 1644 » Louise de La Vallière, French mistress of Louis XIV of France († 1710)
- 1651 » François Fénelon, French archbishop and poet († 1715)
- 1656 » Claude de Forbin, French general († 1733)
- 1666 » Maria Sophia of Neuburg († 1699)
Died on August 6
- 1553 » Girolamo Fracastoro, Italian physician (b. 1478)
- 1628 » Johannes Junius, German lawyer and politician (b. 1573)
- 1637 » Ben Jonson, English poet and playwright (b. 1572)
- 1645 » Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex, English merchant and politician (b. 1575)
- 1657 » Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Ukrainian soldier and politician, 1st Hetman of Zaporizhian Host (b. 1595)
- 1660 » Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter and educator (b. 1599)
- 1666 » Tjerk Hiddes de Vries, Frisian naval hero and commander (b. 1622)
- 1679 » John Snell, Scottish-English soldier and philanthropist, founded the Snell Exhibition (b. 1629)
- 1694 » Antoine Arnauld, French mathematician and philosopher (b. 1612)
- 1695 » François de Harlay de Champvallon, French archbishop (b. 1625)
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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.