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Famous People Who Died in 1632

  • Jan 31 Joost Bürgi, Swiss clockmaker and mathematician (b. 1552)
  • Apr 15 George Calvert, English politician and coloniser, dies at 52
  • Apr 20 Nicolas Antoine, French Protestant theologian who attempted to convert to Judaism, burned at the stake for heresy aged about 30 in Geneva, Switzerland
  • Apr 30 Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly, Holy Roman field marshal who commanded the Catholic League's forces in the Thirty Years' War, dies of tetanus after being wounded by a cannonball at 73

Sigismund III Vasa (1566-1632)

Apr 30 King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania (1587-1632) and King of Sweden (1592-99), dies at 65

  • May 25 Adam Tanner, Austrian mathematician and philosopher, dies at 60
  • Jun 2 Ernst Casimir, count of Nassau-Dietz/mayor of Friesland, dies at 58
  • Jun 22 James Whitelocke, English judge and politician (House of Common 1610-22), dies at 61
  • Jul 29 Samuel Ampzing, Dutch minister, poet, translator (Bijbel-poezije - Bible Poetry), and linguist (Taelbericht der Nederlandsche spellinge - Treatise on Dutch Selling), dies at 42
  • Aug 20 Valentin de Boulogne, French painter, buried at 38
  • Aug 25 Thomas Dekker, English pamphleteer and dramatist dies at about 60 [his life was poorly documented, exact birth and death dates are uncertain]
  • Sep 13 Leopold V, Archduke of Austria, dies at 45
  • Sep 17 Susenyos I, Emperor of Ethiopia (1606-1632), dies at around 60
  • Oct 12 Kutsuki Mototsuna, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1549)
  • Oct 30 Henri de Montmorency, French duke/plotter, beheaded
  • Nov 6 Gustavus II Adolphus, King who made Sweden a major power (1611-32), dies at battle of Lützen at 37
  • Nov 17 Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Bavarian field marshal, dies at 38
  • Nov 27 John Eliot, English parliament leader, dies at 40
  • Nov 29 Frederick V, Elector Palentine (1610-23), King of Bohemia (1619-20), defeated at Battle of White Mountain, dies of an infection at 36
  • Dec 8 Philippe van Lansberge, Dutch astronomer, dies at 71