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May 24, 1637Born on Monday May 25, 1637
- Coenraed Van Dyck, Perk
- Lijske Adriaen Peter van der Voort, Haaren
- Maria Hoffmann, Drebach, Chemnitz, Kurfürstentum Sachsen († 1705)
- Neeltje Waasdorp, Noordwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
- Janneken Marinusse Verburg, Wemeldinge
- Clara de Rouck, Bazel, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Egidius Poppe, Beveren-Waas
- Friedrich Jacob Märklin, Nellingen
- Maertge de Vette, Naaldwijk, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
- Jean FERMIN, Meslin-l'Évêque, 51042, Hainaut, Belgique († 1679)
Died on Monday May 25, 1637
- John Greene (79), Stratford on Avon, Warwickshire, England
- Cornelis van Asten (40), Alphen
- Nicholas Tully (30), Kilconnell, Clare, Ireland
- Edmund Pinney (25), Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
- Cornelis Hendrik van Asten- (40), Alphen en Riel, Nederland
- Barbe PONCY, Villeneuve-l'Archevêque, 89190, France
- Abraham HaLevi - Oettingen, Wien, Austria (Oostenrijk)
- Edmund Griffith, (67)
Born on May 25
- 1550 » Camillus de Lellis, Italian saint and nurse († 1614)
- 1606 » Charles Garnier, French missionary and saint († 1649)
- 1661 » Claude Buffier, Polish-French historian and philosopher († 1737)
- 1713 » John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Scottish politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom († 1792)
- 1725 » Samuel Ward, American politician, 31st Governor of the Colony of Rhode Island († 1776)
- 1783 » Philip Pendleton Barbour, American farmer and politician, 12th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives († 1841)
- 1791 » Minh Mạng, Vietnamese emperor († 1841)
- 1803 » Edward Bulwer-Lytton, English author, playwright, and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies († 1873)
- 1803 » Ralph Waldo Emerson, American poet and philosopher († 1882)
- 1818 » Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss historian and academic († 1897)
Died on May 25
- 1555 » Gemma Frisius, Dutch physician, mathematician, and cartographer (b. 1508)
- 1555 » Henry II of Navarre (b. 1503)
- 1595 » Philip Neri, Italian priest and saint (b. 1515)
- 1595 » Valens Acidalius, German poet and critic (b. 1567)
- 1607 » Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi, Italian Carmelite nun and mystic (b. 1566)
- 1632 » Adam Tanner, Austrian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1572)
- 1667 » Gustaf Bonde, Finnish-Swedish politician, 5th Lord High Treasurer of Sweden (b. 1620)
- 1681 » Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1600)
- 1741 » Daniel Ernst Jablonski, German bishop and theologian (b. 1660)
- 1786 » Peter III of Portugal (b. 1717)
Names that were popular for boys in 1637
- Jan
- Cornelis
- Joannes
- Jacob
- John
- Pieter
- Petrus
- Willem
- Thomas
- Johannes
- Jean
- Cornelisz
- Jansz
- Leendert
- Van
- Adrianus
Names that were popular for girls in 1637
- Maria
- Anna
- Catharina
- Elisabeth
- Marie
- Mary
- Anne
- Joanna
- Elizabeth
- Neeltje
- Jans
- Cornelia
- Margaretha
- Grietje
- Jeanne
- Barbara
Source: Wikipedia Historical events 1637
- Stadhouder Prins Frederik Hendrik (Huis van Oranje) was from 1625 till 1647 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
- February 15 » Ferdinand III becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
- February 18 » Eighty Years' War: Off the coast of Cornwall, England, a Spanish fleet intercepts an important Anglo-Dutch merchant convoy of 44 vessels escorted by six warships, destroying or capturing 20 of them.
- May 26 » Pequot War: A combined English and Mohegan force under John Mason attacks a village in Connecticut, massacring approximately 500 Pequots.
- September 29 » 42-year-old Lorenzo Ruiz dies.