Famous Birthdays
Thomas Fairfax (1612-1671)
Jan 17 Lord Fairfax, English Parliamentary general (Commander-in-Chief of New Model Army during English Civil War), born in Denton Hall, Yorkshire, England
- Jan 31 Henry Casimir I, Dutch count of Nassau-Dietz and Stadholder of Freisland, born in Arnhem (d. 1640)
Famous Deaths
- Jan 4 Henric Laurenszoon Spieghel, Dutch Renaissance writer and poet (Hertspiegel), dies at 62
- Jan 20 Rudolf II von Habsburg, Emperor of Germany (1576-1612), dies at 59
- Jan 27 Maarten van Valckenborch, Flemish painter, buried at about 77
- Jan 28 Thomas Bodley, English diplomat and scholar (founder of the Bodleian Library), dies at 66