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May 17, 1620Born on Monday May 18, 1620
- Cornelis MINNEBOO, Hoek
- Hanns Peter Schmeyer
- John STEPHENS
- Petrus SEGERS, Idegem,9506,Flandre Orientale,Flandre,BELGIQUE
- Jan Michielse, Hoek
- Jan Michielsen, Hoek
- Guillielmus Frans, Brugge, West-Vlaanderen, België
- Arnold Vreven, Diepenbeek (BE)
- Jacob Dankerts Boogaert, Delft († 1620)
Died on Monday May 18, 1620
- Catharine Harssant (74), Suffolk Co, England
- Andreas Walch (90)
- John Austen (60), Goudhurst, Kent, England
- Sybille FRANCK (80), HERVE, Liège, Belgique
- Clara van Wülcknitz (55)
- Arend Allertsz van der Wielen
- Neeltgen Huybrechts, De Lier, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
- Judocus De Man (30)
- Jan de Rijcke, Bazel, Oost-Vlaanderen, België
- Jan DE RIJCKE, Bazel
Born on May 18
- 1450 » Piero Soderini, Italian politician and diplomat († 1513)
- 1537 » Guido Luca Ferrero, Roman Catholic cardinal († 1585)
- 1631 » Stanislaus Papczyński, Polish priest († 1701)
- 1662 » George Smalridge, English bishop († 1719)
- 1692 » Joseph Butler, English bishop, theologian, and apologist († 1752)
- 1711 » Roger Joseph Boscovich, Ragusan physicist, astronomer, and mathematician († 1787)
- 1777 » John George Children, English chemist, mineralogist, and zoologist († 1852)
- 1778 » Charles Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, Irish soldier and diplomat, British Ambassador to Austria († 1854)
- 1785 » John Wilson, Scottish author and critic († 1854)
- 1797 » Frederick Augustus II of Saxony († 1854)
Died on May 18
- 1550 » Jean, Cardinal of Lorraine (b. 1498)
- 1551 » Domenico di Pace Beccafumi, Italian painter (b. 1486)
- 1675 » Jacques Marquette, French-American missionary and explorer (b. 1637)
- 1675 » Stanisław Lubieniecki, Polish astronomer, historian, and theologian (b. 1623)
- 1692 » Elias Ashmole, English astrologer and politician (b. 1617)
- 1721 » Maria Barbara Carillo, victim of the Spanish Inquisition (b.1625)
- 1733 » Georg Böhm, German organist and composer (b. 1761)
- 1780 » Charles Hardy, English-American admiral and politician, 29th Colonial Governor of New York (b. 1714)
- 1781 » Túpac Amaru II, Peruvian-Indian rebel leader (b. 1742)
- 1792 » Levy Solomons, Canadian merchant and fur trader (b. 1730)
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Source: Wikipedia Historical events 1620
- Stadhouder Prins Maurits (Huis van Oranje) was from 1585 till 1625 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
- June 20 » The Battle of Höchst takes place during the Thirty Years' War.
- September 6 » The Pilgrims sail from Plymouth, England on the Mayflower to settle in North America. (Old Style date; September 16 per New Style date.)
- September 16 » Pilgrims set sail from England on the Mayflower.
- November 11 » The Mayflower Compact is signed in what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod.
- November 21 » Plymouth Colony settlers sign the Mayflower Compact (November 11, O.S.)
- December 21 » Plymouth Colony: William Bradford and the Mayflower Pilgrims land on what is now known as Plymouth Rock in Plymouth, Massachusetts.