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Born on Wednesday September 15, 1655
- Gerrit van Dam, Monster
- Antje, Wormer
- Mehitable Plympton († 1725)
- Catharina Gravia, Amsterdam, Noorderkerk († 1735)
- Hannah Minor, Pequot Plantation now New London County, Connecticut († 1692)
- Gian Battista Doria, Torino, Italie († 1714)
- Johan-Baptist Doria Markgraaf van Maro, Turijn, Piëmonte († 1714)
- Sarah Rice, Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony († 1702)
- Francisca De Backer, Scheldewindeke, Oosterzele, Oost-Vlaanderen, België († 1696)
- Mary Woolfin, Trowbridge,Wiltshire,England († 1712)
Died on Wednesday September 15, 1655
- Cornelis Jaspers (36), Westkapelle, Zeeland, Netherlands
- Louise Pointeau (80), Oinville, Saint-Liphard, 28284, Eure-et-Loir, Centre, France
- Adriaen van Cabauw
- Cornelius Hendrickson van DORT, Manhattan Island, NY
- Cristina van Deyl (50)
- Louis GASSE, Mayet, 72360, France
- Mary Eversham (44), Colony of Rhode Island Providence Planation
- Conelis Jaspers (36)
- Celia Maartens van den Bosch (0), Delft
- Servatius Faessen
Born on September 15
- 1580 » Charles Annibal Fabrot, French lawyer and author († 1659)
- 1592 » Giovanni Battista Rinuccini, archbishop of Fermo († 1653)
- 1613 » François de La Rochefoucauld, French soldier and author († 1680)
- 1649 » Titus Oates, English minister, fabricated the Popish Plot († 1705)
- 1666 » Sophia Dorothea of Celle († 1726)
- 1690 » Ignazio Prota, Italian composer and educator († 1748)
- 1715 » Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, French general and engineer († 1789)
- 1736 » Jean Sylvain Bailly, French astronomer, mathematician, and politician, 1st Mayor of Paris († 1793)
- 1759 » Cornelio Saavedra, Argentinean general and politician († 1829)
- 1760 » Bogislav Friedrich Emanuel von Tauentzien, Prussian general († 1824)
Died on September 15
- 1595 » John MacMorran, Baillie of Edinburgh, shot by rioting high school schoolchildren.
- 1596 » Leonhard Rauwolf, German physician and botanist (b. 1535)
- 1613 » Thomas Overbury, English poet and author (b. 1581)
- 1643 » Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, English-Irish politician, Lord High Treasurer of Ireland (b. 1566)
- 1649 » John Floyd, English priest and educator (b. 1572)
- 1700 » André Le Nôtre, French gardener (b. 1613)
- 1701 » Edmé Boursault, French author and playwright (b. 1638)
- 1707 » George Stepney, English poet and diplomat (b. 1663)
- 1712 » Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin, English politician, Lord High Treasurer (b. 1645)
- 1750 » Charles Theodore Pachelbel, German organist and composer (b. 1690)
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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.
- March 25 » Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christiaan Huygens.
- April 23 » The Siege of Santo Domingo begins during the Anglo-Spanish War, and fails seven days later.
- May 19 » The Invasion of Jamaica begins during the Anglo-Spanish War.
- September 8 » Warsaw falls without resistance to a small force under the command of Charles X Gustav of Sweden during The Deluge, making it the first time the city is captured by a foreign army.
- 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.