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Born on Saturday August 14, 1655
- Jonathan Finney, Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay († 1728)
- Maria Wouters van HERP, Drunen,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1730)
- Anna Clara AELMANS, Roermond, Limburg, Netherlands
- Beatrix Colla, Bilzen
- Beatrix COLLARD, Broekem, 3740, Bilzen-Hoeselt, Limburg, België
- Nicolaus Petruszn Marcelis, Hilvarenbeek
- Antonia Solly, Ramsdonk, België
- Maria Bemelmans, Nuth, Limburg, Nederland († 1728)
- Antonia Solly, Ramsdonk, België
- Rabe Christoph Graf von Oeynhausen († 1748)
Died on Saturday August 14, 1655
- Thomas Selden (38), Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut
- Joan Hanson (62), Yaxley, Huntingdon, England
- Johannes Hermannus Reneman (90), Groningen, Nederland
- Ferdinand Stadl von (45)
Born on August 14
- 1575 » Robert Hayman, English-Canadian poet and politician († 1629)
- 1586 » William Hutchinson, founder of Rhode Island († 1642)
- 1599 » Méric Casaubon, Swiss-English scholar and author († 1671)
- 1625 » François de Harlay de Champvallon, French archbishop († 1695)
- 1642 » Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany († 1723)
- 1645 » Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora, Mexican secular priest, scientist, and savant († 1700)
- 1653 » Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, English colonel and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica († 1688)
- 1688 » Frederick William I of Prussia († 1740)
- 1714 » Claude Joseph Vernet, French painter († 1789)
- 1738 » Leopold Hofmann, Austrian composer and conductor († 1793)
Died on August 14
- 1464 » Pope Pius II (b. 1405)
- 1573 » Saitō Tatsuoki, Japanese daimyō (b. 1548)
- 1657 » Giovanni Paolo Lascaris, 57th Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller (b. 1560)
- 1691 » Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, Irish soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1630)
- 1727 » William Croft, English organist and composer (b. 1678)
- 1774 » Johann Jakob Reiske, German physician and scholar (b. 1716)
- 1784 » Nathaniel Hone the Elder, Irish-born English painter and academic (b. 1718)
- 1854 » Carl Carl, Polish-born actor and theatre director (b. 1787)
- 1856 » Constant Prévost, French geologist and academic (b. 1787)
- 1860 » André Marie Constant Duméril, French zoologist and entomologist (b. 1774)
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Source: Wikipedia Historical events 1655
- This page is only available in Dutch.Van 1650 tot 1672 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Eerste Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
- February 14 » The Mapuches launch coordinated attacks against the Spanish in Chile beginning the Mapuche uprising of 1655.
- March 8 » John Casor becomes the first legally-recognized slave in England's North American colonies where a crime was not committed.
- March 25 » Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christiaan Huygens.
- July 31 » Russo-Polish War (1654–67): The Russian army enters the capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Vilnius, which it holds for six years.
- December 18 » The Whitehall Conference ends with the determination that there was no law preventing Jews from re-entering England after the Edict of Expulsion of 1290.
- December 27 » Second Northern War/the Deluge: Monks at the Jasna Góra Monastery in Częstochowa are successful in fending off a month-long siege.