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{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2011}} {{Year dab|1612|the Russian film|1612 (film)}} {{Year nav|1612}} [[File:Battle of Swally.jpg|thumb|250px|right|[[November 30]]: [[Battle of Swally]]]] {{C17 year in topic}} {{Year article header|1612}} == Events == <onlyinclude> === January–March === * [[January 6]] – [[Axel Oxenstierna]] becomes [[Lord High Chancellor of Sweden]]. He persuades the [[Riksdag of the Estates]] to grant the [[Swedish nobility]] the right and privilege to hold all higher offices of government. * [[January 10]] – [[Gustavus Adolphus]] replies to Metropolitan Isidor, Odoevskij and the estates of [[Veliky Novgorod|Novgorod]], stating that he himself wishes to assume responsibility for the government of Novgorod and also of all Russians. A number of land grants signed the same day show that the Swedish king has assumed the title of [[Tsar]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Löfstrand |first=Elisabeth |url=https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:353792/FULLTEXT01.pdf |title=Accounts of an occupied city : catalogue of the Novgorod Occupation Archives 1611-1617 |last2=Nordquist |first2=Laila |publisher=[[National Archives of Sweden]] |year=2005 |isbn=9188366677 |edition=1st |location=Stockholm |pages=41 |language=English}}</ref> * [[January 20]] **[[Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor|Rudolf II]], [[Holy Roman Emperor]], dies and several candidates vie to succeed him, with [[Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor|Archduke Matthias]] eventually being elected. <ref name="Cassell's Chronology">{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|url=https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/244|url-access=registration|location=London|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/244 244]}}</ref> **[[Dmitry Pozharsky#Battle for Moscow|An uprising led by Dmitry Pozharsky]] begins in Moscow against occupying [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth|Polish]] troops. * [[February 11]] – [[Battle of Vittsjö]]: King [[Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden]] and 3,000 of his troops are forced to retreat from [[Denmark]]. The 17-year old king almost drowns while attempting to ride his horse across a frozen lake, but is rescued by two other members of his cavalry. The horse is lost. * [[March 2]] – The [[False Dmitry III]], one of three pretenders to the Russian throne who all claim to be sons of [[Ivan the Terrible]], is recognized as Tsar of Russia by the [[Cossacks]]. * [[March 12]] – At Daulambapur, near [[Kamalganj Upazila|Kamalganj]] in what is now the [[Sylhet Division]] in [[Bangladesh]], a battle takes place between 4,500 troops led by General [[Islam Khan I]] of India's [[Mughal Empire]], and 12,000 defenders led by the Afghan warlord [[Khwaja Usman]]. The Mughals are almost defeated until Usman is struck in the eye by an arrow fired from a crossbow. === April–June === * [[April 10]] – In England, 12 persons who become known as the [[Pendle witches]] allegedly hold a [[coven]] at the [[Malkin Tower]] in [[Lancashire]] on Good Friday, after which 10 people die mysteriously.<ref>"The Lancashire Witches in Historical Context", by James Sharpe, in ''The Lancashire Witches: Histories and Stories'', ed. by Robert Poole, (Manchester University Press, 2002) p.2</ref> All but two of the accused witches are tried for causing harm by witchcraft on August 18. * [[April 11]] – In [[Lichfield]], [[Edward Wightman]], a [[Radical Reformation|radical Anabaptist]], becomes the last person to be [[Execution by burning|burned at the stake]] in England as punishment for [[heresy]].<ref name="Cassell's Chronology"/> * [[May 10]] – [[Shah Jahan|Prince Khurram]], the 20-year-old son of the Mughal Emperor [[Jahangir]], marries 19-year-old [[Mumtaz Mahal|Arjumand Banu Begum]] at a ceremony in [[Delhi]]. In 1628, Khurram becomes the Emperor Shah Jahan with Arjumand Begum as his chief consort Mumtaz Mahal. Arjumand dies in 1631 and Khurram later commissions and builds the [[Taj Mahal]] in her memory.<ref>{{cite book|author=Soma Mukherjee|title=Royal Mughal Ladies and Their Contributions|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v-2TyjzZhZEC&pg=PA52|year=2001|publisher=Gyan Books|isbn=978-81-212-0760-7|pages=52|language=en}}</ref> * [[May 25]] – A [[Kingdom of Sicily|Sicilian]]–[[Spanish Empire|Spanish]] galley fleet [[Raid on La Goulette (1612)|defeats]] the [[Ottoman Tunisia|Tunisian]]s at La Goulette after a battle. * [[June 13]] – [[Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor|Archduke Matthias of Austria]] is formally elected as the new [[Holy Roman Emperor]].<ref name="Cassell's Chronology"/> * [[June 26]] – The coronation of Matthias as Holy Roman Emperor takes place at the [[Frankfurt Cathedral]]. === July–September === * [[July 4]] – (8th waxing of [[Waso]] 974 [[Burmese calendar|ME]]) In what is now [[Myanmar]], [[Min Khamaung]] becomes the new [[List of Burmese monarchs#Mrauk-U (1429–1785)|King of Arakan]] upon the death of his father, King [[Min Razagyi]]. * [[July 22]] – Four women and one man are hanged following the [[Northamptonshire witch trials]] in England. * [[July 24]] – [[Marcantonio Memmo]] is elected as the [[Doge of Venice|Doge]] of the [[Republic of Venice]] on the first ballot of the Venetian council, winning 38 of the 41 votes. Memmo succeeds the late Doge [[Leonardo Donato]], who died on July 16. * [[August 20]] – Ten ''[[Pendle witches]]'' are hanged, having been found guilty of practising witchcraft in [[Lancashire]] in England. * [[August 26]] – [[Battle of Kringen]]: A Scottish mercenary force is destroyed in Norway. * [[September 1]] – [[Battle of Moscow (1612)]]: Led by General [[Jan Karol Chodkiewicz]], a relief force from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, whose troops had been occupying [[Moscow]] for two years, make an unsuccessful attempt to break the Russian siege of the [[Kremlin]], where General [[Mikolaj Strus]] and his troops are trapped. Both the Russians (led by [[Dmitry Pozharsky]]) and the Commonwealth troops suffer at least 1,000 deaths, but the Russians prevail. General Chodkiewicz tries a second attack the next day and fails. * [[September 2]] (August 23 O.S.) – The [[Duchy of Prussia|Lutheran Duchy of Prussia]], a fiefdom within Poland, becomes the first [[Protestantism|Protestant]] government to follow the Roman Catholic nations in [[adoption of the Gregorian calendar|adopting the Gregorian calendar]]. * [[September 5]] – England's [[East India Company]] gets its first warships and establishes the "'Honourable East India Company's Marine'" to protect its freighters. The force develops over the centuries into the [[Royal Indian Navy]] and, after India's independence in 1947, the [[Indian Navy]]. * [[September 22]] – Retreating Polish and Lithuanian troops burn the Russian city of [[Vologda]] in reprisal for their defeat at Moscow. === October–December === * [[October 27]] – Forces of the [[Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth]], which had been occupying Moscow for more than two years, surrender unconditionally to Russian militia forces and are allowed to leave after the [[Kremlin]] is liberated by Prince [[Dmitry Pozharsky]] and Prince [[Kuzma Minin]]. <ref>Chester Dunning, ''A Short History of Russia's First Civil War: The Time of Troubles and the Founding of the Romanov Dynasty'' (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004) pp. 296–297</ref> * [[November 20]] – The [[Treaty of Nasuh Pasha]] is signed, between the [[Ottoman Empire]] (Turkey) and the [[Safavid Empire]] (Iran), with the Ottomans ceding back land they had captured from the Safavids after 1555, in return for Safavid payment of 200 loads of silk.<ref>[https://cdn2.islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/dosya/2/C02000576.pdf "Ahmed I"], ''Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire''</ref> * [[November 30]] – [[Battle of Swally]]: Forces of the [[East India Company|British East India Company]] and [[Portuguese Empire|Portugal]] engage off the coast of India, resulting in an English victory.<ref>{{cite book|author=Manekshah Sorabshah Commissariat|title=A History of Gujarat: Including a Survey of Its Chief Architectural Monuments and Inscriptions|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KURuAAAAMAAJ|year=1980|publisher=Longmans, Green & Company, Limited|page=192|language=en}}</ref> * [[December 15]] – [[Simon Marius]] becomes the first person on Earth to observe the [[Andromeda Galaxy]] through a telescope. * [[December 28]] – [[Galileo Galilei]] becomes the first astronomer to observe the planet [[Neptune]] when in [[conjunction (astronomy)|conjunction]] with [[Jupiter]]. He mistakenly catalogues it as a [[fixed star]], because of its extremely slow motion along the [[ecliptic]]. Neptune will not be truly recognized as a planet until [[1846]], about 234 years later, when [[Johann Gottfried Galle]] first sights it in the [[Berlin Observatory]]. === Date unknown === * The [[Nagoya Castle]] is completed in [[Japan]]. * The [[Okamoto Daihachi incident]] in Japan. * [[Thomas Shelton (translator)|Thomas Shelton]]'s English translation of the first half of ''[[Don Quixote]]'' is published. It is the first translation of the Spanish novel into any language. </onlyinclude> == Births == [[File:Thomas Killigrew by Sir Anthony Van Dyck cropped.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Thomas Killigrew]]]] [[File:Mola Autoritratto.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Pier Francesco Mola]]]] [[File:Jan Meyssens by his son Cornelis.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Joannes Meyssens]]]] [[File:Portrait of Margherita de' Medici, c. 1628, Oil on canvas, 187 x 115 cm, Galleria Palatina (Palazzo Pitti), Florence.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Margherita de' Medici]]]] [[File:Frans Hals - Frans Post (Worcester Art Museum).jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Frans Post]]]] ===January–March=== * [[January 17]] – [[Thomas Fairfax]], English Civil War general (d. [[1671]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Geoffrey Ridsdill Smith|author2=Margaret Toynbee|author3=Peter Young|title=Leaders of the Civil Wars, 1642-1648|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jGyuAAAAIAAJ|year=1977|publisher=Roundwood Press|isbn=978-0-900093-56-2|page=59|language=en}}</ref> * [[January 21]] – [[Henry Casimir I of Nassau-Dietz]], Stadtholder of Groningen, Friesland and Drenthe (d. [[1640]]) * [[January 22]] – [[Daniel Zwicker]], German physician (d. [[1678]]) * [[January 23]] – [[George FitzGerald, 16th Earl of Kildare]], Irish earl (d. [[1660]]) * [[February 1]] – [[William West (died 1670)|William West]], English politician (d. [[1670]]) * [[February 2]] – [[Thomas Wentworth, 5th Baron Wentworth]], English baron and politician (d. [[1665]]) * [[February 4]] – [[Arthur Spry]], English politician (d. [[1685]]) * [[February 5]] – [[Crown Prince Sohyeon]], Korean crown prince (d. [[1645]]) * [[February 6]] – [[Antoine Arnauld]], French theologian (d. [[1694]]) * [[February 7]] – [[Thomas Killigrew]], English dramatist and theatre manager (d. [[1683]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Christopher Baker|title=Absolutism and the Scientific Revolution, 1600-1720: A Biographical Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SDy-MtS9mvgC&pg=PA206|year=2002|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-30827-7|pages=206}}</ref> * [[February 9]] – [[Pier Francesco Mola]], Italian painter of the High Baroque (d. [[1666]]) * [[February 15]] – [[Paul de Chomedey, Sieur de Maisonneuve]], French military officer, founder of Montreal in New France (d. [[1676]]) * [[February 20]] – [[Richard Olmsted (settler)|Richard Olmsted]], Connecticut settler (d. [[1687]]) * [[February 21]] – [[Lorenzo Imperiali]], Italian cardinal (d. [[1673]]) * [[February 22]] ''(bapt.)'' – [[George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol]], English statesman (d. [[1677]]) * [[March 20]] – [[Anne Bradstreet]], née Dudley, English-born American Puritan poet (d. [[1672]]) ===April–June=== * [[April 6]] – [[James Stewart, 1st Duke of Richmond]] (d. [[1655]]) * [[April 10]] – [[Francesco Lorenzo Brancati di Lauria]], Italian Catholic cardinal (d. [[1693]]) * [[April 12]] – [[Simone Cantarini]], Italian painter and engraver (d. [[1648]]) * [[April 28]] – [[Odoardo Farnese, Duke of Parma]] and Piacenza from 1622 to 1646 (d. [[1646]]) * [[May 6]] – [[François-Joseph Bressani]], Italian missionary (d. [[1672]]) * [[May 10]] – [[Francesco Palliola]], Italian Servant of God (d. [[1648]]) * [[May 12]] – [[Laurence Womock]], English Bishop of St David's (d. [[1687]]) * [[May 17]] ** [[Matthew Babington]], English politician (d. [[1669]]) ** [[Joannes Meyssens]], Flemish painter (d. [[1670]]) * [[May 26]] – [[Raja Wodeyar II]], King of Mysore (d. [[1638]]) * [[May 31]] – [[Margherita de' Medici]], Italian noble (d. [[1679]]) * [[June 1]] – [[Frans Post]], Dutch painter (d. [[1680]]) * [[June 23]] – [[André Tacquet]], Brabantian mathematician, Jesuit priest (d. [[1660]]) * [[June 25]] – [[John Albert Vasa]], Polish bishop (d. [[1634]]) * [[June 29]] – [[Sir William Bowyer, 1st Baronet]], English politician (d. [[1679]]) ===July–September=== * [[July 23]] – [[Christian Lupus]], Flemish historian (d. [[1681]]) * [[July 27]] – [[Murad IV]], [[Ottoman Sultan]] (d. [[1640]]) * [[August 2]] – [[Saskia van Uylenburgh]], wife of painter Rembrandt van Rijn (d. [[1642]]) * [[August 10]] – [[Charles de Grimaldi-Régusse]], French aristocrat (d. [[1687]]) * [[August 12]] – [[Allart Pieter van Jongestall]], Dutch jurist, politician, and diplomat (d. [[1676]]) * [[August 17]] – [[Jeremi Wiśniowiecki]], Polish nobleman (d. [[1651]]) * [[August 23]] – [[Francis Lascelles]], English politician (d. [[1667]]) * [[August 28]] – [[Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn]], Dutch scholar (d. [[1653]]) * [[September 1]] – [[Nicolas Chorier]], French historian, lawyer and writer (d. [[1692]]) * [[September 24]] – [[William Gawdy]], English politician (d. [[1669]]) ===October–December=== * [[October 6]] ** [[Claude Françoise de Lorraine]], Princess of Lorraine (d. [[1648]]) ** [[Louis Maracci]], Italian priest (d. [[1700]]) * [[October 14]] ** [[Pierre Bailloquet]], French missionary (d. [[1692]]) ** [[Thomas Fitch (settler)|Thomas Fitch]], Connecticut settler (d. [[1704]]) * [[October 18]] – [[John Eliot (died 1685)|John Eliot]], English politician (d. [[1685]]) * [[October 19]] – [[Nicolas Chaperon]], French painter (d. [[1656]]) * [[October 20]] – [[Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Burlington]], Anglo-Irish nobleman, Lord High Treasurer of Ireland, Cavalier (d. [[1698]]) * [[October 23]] – [[Henry Lingen]], English politician (d. [[1662]]) * [[October 25]] – [[James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose]], Scottish soldier (d. [[1650]]) * [[October 26]] – [[Henry Wilmot, 1st Earl of Rochester]] (d. [[1658]]) * [[October 27]] – [[Margravine Magdalene Sibylle of Brandenburg-Bayreuth]], Electress of Saxony by marriage (1656–1680) (d. [[1687]]) * [[October 30]] – [[Paul Würtz]], Swedish general (d. [[1676]]) * [[November 7]] – [[Pierre Mignard]], French painter (d. [[1695]]) * [[November 11]] ** [[Jean Garnier]], French historian (d. [[1681]]) ** [[August Philipp, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck]], Danish-German prince and member of the House of Oldenburg (d. [[1675]]) ** [[Richard Sherlock (clergyman)|Richard Sherlock]], English priest (d. [[1689]]) * [[November 17]] – [[Dorgon]], Chinese Manchu prince (d. [[1650]]) * [[November 28]] – [[Sir Thomas Whitmore, 1st Baronet]], English politician and Baronet (d. [[1653]]) * [[December 2]] – [[David Ryckaert III]], Flemish painter (d. [[1661]]) == Deaths == [[File:Sir Leonard Halliday.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Leonard Holliday]]]] [[File:Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah portrait.JPG|thumb|right|110px|[[Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah]]]] [[File:Vincenzo I Gonzaga nel giorno dell’incoronazione.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Vincenzo I Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua|Vincenzo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua]]]] [[File:1575 Anna Katharina.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Anne Catherine of Brandenburg]]]] [[File:Lady_Katherine_Grey_and_her_son_Lord_Edward_Beauchamp_v2.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Edward Seymour, Lord Beauchamp]]]] [[File:Sir John Salisbury by Moses Griffith 02197.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[John Salusbury (poet)|John Salusbury]]]] === January–March === * [[January 4]] – [[Hendrik Laurenszoon Spiegel]], Dutch writer (b. [[1549]]) * [[January 9]] – [[Leonard Holliday]], Lord Mayor of London, 1605-1606 (b. [[1550]]) * [[January 11]] – [[Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah]], fifth sultan of the Qutb Shahi Dynasty of Golkonda; founded the city of Hyderabad (b. [[1565]]) * [[January 12]] – [[Charles III de Croÿ]], Belgian noble (b. [[1560]]) * [[January 13]] – [[Jane Dormer]], English lady-in-waiting to Mary I (b. [[1538]]) * [[January 20]] – [[Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor]], Austrian Habsburg ruler (b. [[1552]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Rudolf II {{!}} Holy Roman emperor |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Rudolf-II-Holy-Roman-emperor |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=13 April 2020 |language=en}}</ref> * [[February 6]] – [[Christopher Clavius]], German mathematician and astronomer (b. [[1538]]) * [[February 9]] – [[Vincenzo I Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua|Vincenzo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua]] (b. [[1562]]) * [[February 12]] – [[Jodocus Hondius]], Flemish cartographer (b. [[1563]]) * [[February 17]] – [[Ernest of Bavaria]], German Catholic bishop (b. [[1554]]) * [[February 18]] – [[Roberto di Ridolfi]], Italian conspirator against [[Elizabeth I of England]] (b. [[1531]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Hugh Chisholm|author2=James Louis Garvin|title=The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature & General Information|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JBFGAQAAIAAJ|year=1926|publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica Company, Limited|page=320}}</ref> * [[February 21]] – [[Christian Barnekow (1556–1612)|Christian Barnekow]], Danish noble, explorer and diplomat (b. [[1556]]) * [[March 16]] – [[Margaret Fiennes, 11th Baroness Dacre]] (b. [[1541]]) * [[March 18]] – [[Bartholomew Legate]], English anti-Trinitarian martyr (b. c. [[1575]]) * [[March 19]] – [[Sophia Olelkovich Radziwill]], Polish-Lithuanian noble (b. [[1585]]) === April–June === * [[April 5]] – [[Diana Scultori]], Italian engraver * [[April 8]] – [[Anne Catherine of Brandenburg]] (b. [[1575]]) * [[April 11]] ** [[Emanuel van Meteren]], Flemish historian (b. [[1535]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Walpole Society (Great Britain)|title=The ... Volume of the Walpole Society|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IBOgAAAAMAAJ|year=1980|publisher=Walpole Society|page=205}}</ref> ** [[Edward Wightman]], English Baptist preacher (burned at the stake) (b. [[1580]]) * [[April 19]] – [[Anne d'Escars de Givry]], French Catholic cardinal (b. [[1546]]) * [[April 21]] – [[David van Goorle]], theologian and theoretical scientist (b. [[1591]]) * May – [[False Dmitry III]], pretender to the Russian throne (secretly executed)<ref>{{cite book|author=Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc|title=The New Encyclopaedia Britannica|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T3oxAQAAIAAJ|year=1998|publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica|isbn=978-0-85229-633-2|page=139}}</ref> * [[May 19]] – [[Gregorio Petrocchini]], Italian Cardinal Bishop, Conclave member, Cardinal protector of the Augustines (b. [[1535]]) * [[May 24]] – [[Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury]], English statesman and spymaster (b. [[1563]]) * [[May 31]] – [[Willem Isaacsz Swanenburg]], Dutch engraver (b. [[1580]]) * [[June 5]] – [[Arima Harunobu]], Japanese daimyō (b. [[1567]]) * [[June 8]] – [[Hans Leo Hassler]], German composer (b. [[1562]]) * [[June 21]] – [[Edward Seymour, Lord Beauchamp]] (b. [[1561]]) * [[June 26]] – [[Roger Manners, 5th Earl of Rutland]], eldest surviving son of John Manners (b. [[1576]]) === July–September === * [[July 16]] – [[Leonardo Donato]], Doge of Venice (b. [[1536]]) * [[July 24]] ** [[Ottavio Mirto Frangipani]], Italian bishop and papal diplomat (b. [[1544]]) ** [[John Salusbury (poet)|John Salusbury]], Welsh politician (b. [[1567]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Edmund Gosse|title=The Life and Letters of John Donne, Vol I: Dean of St. Paul's|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=03yGDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA312|date=28 January 2019|publisher=Wipf and Stock Publishers|isbn=978-1-5326-7810-3|pages=312|language=en}}</ref> * [[July 29]] – [[Jacques Bongars]], French scholar and diplomat (b. [[1554]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Keith Busby|title=Les Manuscrits de Chrétien de Troyes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NsvcTtsIyRgC&pg=PA98|year=1993|publisher=Rodopi|isbn=90-5183-603-1|pages=98}}</ref> * [[August 3]] – [[John Bond (classicist)|John Bond]], English politician and classicist (b. [[1550]]) * [[August 4]] – [[Hugh Broughton]], English scholar (b. [[1549]]) * [[August 9]] – [[Philipp Ludwig II, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg]] (1580–1612) (b. [[1576]]) * [[August 12]] – [[Giovanni Gabrieli]], Italian composer (b. c. [[1554]]) * [[August 15]] – [[Michael Hicks (1543–1612)|Michael Hicks]], English politician (b. [[1543]]) * [[August 18]] – [[Giacomo Boncompagni]], Italian feudal lord of the 16th century (b. [[1548]]) * [[August 20]] – [[Naitō Nobunari]], Japanese samurai and daimyō of Omi Province (b. [[1545]]) * [[September 9]] – [[Nakagawa Hidenari]], Japanese warlord (b. [[1570]]) * [[September 12]] – Tsar [[Vasili IV of Russia]] (b. [[1552]]) * [[September 13]] – [[Karin Månsdotter]], Queen of Sweden (b. [[1550]]) * [[September 24]] – [[Johannes Lippius]], German theologian, philosopher, composer, and music theorist (b. [[1585]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Benito V. Rivera|title=German Music Theory in the Early 17th Century: The Treatises of Johannes Lippius|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FXUIAQAAMAAJ|year=1980|publisher=UMI Research Press|isbn=978-0-8357-1074-9|page=3}}</ref> * [[September 27]] – [[Piotr Skarga]], Polish Jesuit and polemicist (b. [[1536]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Harvard Theological Studies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ygdyAAAAIAAJ|year=1995|publisher=Scholars Press|isbn=978-0-8006-7085-6|page=865}}</ref> * [[September 28]] – [[Ernst Soner]], German physician (b. [[1572]]) === October–December === * [[October 7]] ** [[Menso Alting]], Dutch preacher and reformer (b. [[1541]]) ** [[Giovanni Battista Guarini]], Italian poet (b. [[1538]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JpBkAAAAMAAJ|year=2004|publisher=Gale Research Company|isbn=978-0-7876-6968-3|page=1}}</ref> * [[October 10]] – [[Bernardino Poccetti]], Italian painter (b. [[1548]]) * [[October 23]] – [[János Petki]], Hungarian politician (b. [[1572]]) * [[October 28]] – [[Edward Darcy]], English politician (b. [[1544]]) * [[November 1]] – [[Charles, Count of Soissons]], French ''prince du sang'' and military commander in the struggles over religion and the throne (b. [[1566]]) * [[November 2]] – [[Maurice, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg]], 1581–1612 (b. [[1551]]) * [[November 6]] ** [[Nicholas Fitzherbert]], English martyr (b. [[1550]]) ** [[Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales]], elder son of King James I & VI and Anne of Denmark (b. [[1594]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Robert L. Martensen|author2=James a Knight Chair in Humanities and Ethics in Medicine and Professor of Surgery Robert L Martensen|title=The Brain Takes Shape: An Early History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5g0TDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA102|date=8 April 2004|publisher=Oxford University Press, USA|isbn=978-0-19-515172-5|pages=102|language=en}}</ref> * [[November 9]] – [[Paul Jenisch]], German pastor (b. [[1551]]) * [[November 16]] – [[William Stafford (conspirator)|William Stafford]], English spy (b. [[1554]]) * [[November 20]] – [[John Harington (writer)|John Harington]], English courtier, writer and inventor of a flush toilet (b. [[1561]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Jason Scott-Warren|title=Sir John Harington and the Book as Gift|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gII7jGrkLz8C&pg=PA20|year=2001|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-924445-4|pages=20}}</ref> * [[November 23]] ** [[Juan Fernández de Olivera]], Spanish colonial governor (b. [[1560]]) ** [[Elizabeth Jane Weston]], English Czech poet (b. [[1582]]) * [[November 26]] – [[Thomas Walmsley (judge)|Thomas Walmsley]], English judge (b. [[1537]]) * [[December 4]] – [[Jacob Taets van Amerongen]], Teutonic Knights commander (b. [[1542]]) * [[December 12]] – [[Nicholas Mosley (mayor)|Nicholas Mosley]], Lord Mayor of London (b. [[1527]]) * [[December 22]] – [[Francesco IV Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua]] (b. [[1586]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Ludwig Burchard|author2=Roger Adolf d' Hulst|title=Rubens Drawings|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zIjqAAAAMAAJ|year=1963|publisher=Arcade Press|isbn=978-0-8390-9043-4|page=50}}</ref> ===Date unknown=== * [[Federico Barocci]], Italian painter (b. c. [[1535]]) * [[Isabel Barreto]], Spanish admiral (b. [[1567]]) == References == {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:1612}} [[Category:1612| ]] [[Category:Leap years in the Gregorian calendar]]
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