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Famous People Who Died in 1646

  • Jan 6 Elias Hill, German architect of Augsburg, dies at 72
  • Mar 20 Matthew Vossius, historian (Annales Holland Zelandiaeque), dies at 35
  • Apr 10 Santino Solari, Swiss architect and sculptor (b. 1576)
  • Aug 19 Alexander Henderson, Scottish theologian
  • Aug 28 Fulvio Testi, Italian poet (Poesie liriche), dies at 53
  • Sep 11 Johann Stobäus, North German composer, dies at 66
  • Sep 14 Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, English Parliamentarian and Chief Commander of the Parliamentarian army during the English Civil War, dies of a stroke at 55
  • Sep 14 Thomas H Earl of Arundel, English art collector (Marbles), dies
  • Sep 24 Duarte Lobo, Portuguese composer, dies at about 81
  • Oct 3 Virgilio Mazzocchi, Italian composer, dies at 49
  • Oct 4 Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, English courtier and art collector (Arundel Marbles), dies at 60
  • Oct 9 Baltasar Carlos, son of Spanish King Philip IV, dies of smallpox at 16
  • Oct 12 François de Bassompierre, marshal of France, dies at 67
  • Oct 18 Isaac Jogues, French Jesuit missionary and martyr, killed with a tomahawk at 39 by Mohawk at their village of Ossernenon and dumped in the Mohawk River
  • Oct 28 William Dobson, English portrait painter, dies at about 35 (b. 1610)
  • Nov 29 Laurentius Paulinus Gothus, Swedish theologian and astronomer, dies at 81
  • Nov 30 John C Lichthart, admiral (Cape Augustine), dies at about 45
  • Dec 22 Peter Mogila, Orthodox Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia (b. 1596)
  • Dec 23 François Maynard, French poet (b. 1582)