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{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2011}} {{Year dab|1621}} {{Year nav|1621}} [[File:Thanksgiving-Brownscombe.jpg|300px|thumb|[[September 29]]: The First Thanksgiving the New World as imagined by Jennie A. Brownscombe in 1914]] {{C17 year in topic}}[[File:Siege of Montauban 1621 Merian 1646.jpg|thumb|The [[Siege of Montauban]].]] {{Year article header|1621}} == Events == <onlyinclude> === January–March === * [[January 12]] – [[Şehzade Mehmed (son of Ahmed I)|Şehzade Mehmed]], the 15-year old half-brother of Ottoman Sultan [[Osman II]], is put to death by hanging on Osman's orders. Before dying, Mehmed prays aloud that Osman's reign as Sultan be ruined. * [[January 18]] – The Dutch East India Company formally names its fortress at Jayakarta in Indonesia, calling it [[Jakarta|Batavia]]. Upon the independence of the Dutch East Indies as Indonesia in 1945, Batavia will be renamed Jakarta. * [[January 22]] – The [[Tianqi (era)|Tianqi era]] begins in Ming Dynasty China, six months after Zhu Changluo becomes the [[Taichang Emperor]]. * [[January 24]] – Twelve days after the murder of Prince Mehmed on orders of Sultan Osman II, Constantinople is hit by bitter winter weather, leading to rioting by persons who believe that the punishment of Osman is the will of Allah. * [[January 28]] – [[Pope Paul V]] (Camillo Borghese) dies at the age of 70 after 15 years as Pontiff. * [[January 29]] – [[Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor]], declares the Elector of the Palatinate, [[Frederick V of the Palatinate|Frederick V]], to be a traitor to the Empire. * [[February 9]] – [[Papal conclave, 1621|Papal Conclave of 1621]]: [[Pope Gregory XV]] succeeds [[Pope Paul V]], as the 234th [[pope]]. * [[February 17]] – [[Myles Standish]] is appointed as the first commander of [[Plymouth Colony]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Mayflower: A Story of Community, Courage and War |last=Philbrick |first=Nathaniel |author-link=Nathaniel Philbrick |year=2006 |place=New York |publisher=Penguin Books |isbn=978-0-14-311197-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qk9AXww_XysC|page=84}}</ref> * [[March 16]] – [[Samoset]], a [[Mohegan]], visits the settlers of Plymouth Colony and greets them: "Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset." * [[March 22]] – The [[Pilgrim Fathers|Pilgrims]] of [[Plymouth Colony]] sign a peace treaty with [[Massasoit]] of the [[Wampanoag people|Wampanoag]]s. * [[March 31]] – King [[Philip IV of Spain]] begins his 44-year rule.<ref>{{cite book|author=Claudio Monteverdi|title=The Letters of Claudio Monteverdi|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tBVL9_1__ioC&pg=PA227|date=31 October 1980|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-23591-4|pages=227}}</ref> === April–June === * [[April 1]] – The [[Plymouth, Massachusetts]] colonists create the first treaty with native Americans. * [[April 5]] – The ''[[Mayflower]]'' sets sail from [[Plymouth, Massachusetts|Plymouth]], on a return trip to England. * [[April 9]] – The [[Twelve Years' Truce]] between the [[Dutch Republic]] and the [[Spanish Empire]] expires, and both sides prepare to resume the [[Eighty Years' War]]. * [[May 2]] – The [[1621 Panama earthquake|Panama earthquake]] affects the [[Isthmus of Panama]], with an estimated magnitude of 6.9, and a maximum [[Mercalli intensity scale|Mercalli intensity]] of VII. * [[May 12]] – The city of [[Tornio]] in [[Lapland (Finland)|Lapland]] is founded by King [[Gustavus Adolphus|Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden]], becoming the northernmost city in the world at the time.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-11927599|title=Kojamo-veistos yhdistää asiat, joista 400-vuotias Tornio elää: teräksen ja lohen – tutkija listaa 5 tapahtumaa, jotka ovat muuttaneet kaupunkia|website=YLE|date=May 12, 2021|access-date=September 2, 2021|language=fi}}</ref> * [[May 24]] – The [[Protestant Union]] is formally dissolved. * [[June 3]] – The [[Dutch West India Company]] is founded.<ref>{{cite book|author=Nelson Greene|title=History of the Valley of the Hudson: River of Destiny, 1609-1930|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cPcLAAAAYAAJ|year=1931|publisher=S.J. Clarke Publishing Company|page=215}}</ref> * [[June 21]] – [[Thirty Years' War]]: [[Old Town Square execution|Twenty-seven Czech lords are executed on the Old Town Square]] in [[Prague]], as a consequence of the [[Battle of White Mountain]]. * [[June 24]] – [[Huguenot rebellions]]: [[Saint-Jean-d'Angély]] is taken, after a [[Siege of Saint-Jean-d'Angély (1621)|26-day siege]] by Royal forces. === July–September === * [[July 25]] – [[Thirty Years' War]] – [[Battle of Neu Titschein]]: Remnants of the Bohemian army temporarily hold off the Imperial advance in [[Silesia]]. * [[August 8]] – [[Huguenot rebellions]]: The French Protestant city of [[La Rochelle]] joins in the revolt by [[Benjamin, Duke of Soubise]]. * [[August 22]] – [[Huguenot rebellions]]: [[Louis XIII of France]] [[Siege of Montauban|besieges the city of Montauban]], but is forced to abandon the battle by November 9. * [[September 2]] – The [[Battle of Khotyn (1621)|Battle of Khotyn]] begins as a force of more than 120,000 Ottoman troops attacks the Moldavian city of Khotyn. Despite the Ottomans' numerical superiority, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth wins the battle and forces a surrender five weeks later. <ref name="Żółkiewski1959">{{cite book|author=Stanisław Żółkiewski|title=Expedition to Moscow: A Memoir|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BQ1pAAAAMAAJ|year=1959|publisher=Polonica Publications|page=34|language=en}}</ref> === October–December === * [[October 9]] – The [[Treaty of Khotyn]] is signed between the [[Ottoman Empire]] and the [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]], ending the [[Polish–Ottoman War (1620–21)|First Polish-Ottoman War]].<ref name="Żółkiewski1959"/> * [[October 9]] (September 29 O.S.) – The [[Pilgrim Fathers|Pilgrims]] of [[Plymouth Colony]] and [[Wampanoag people|Wampanoag]]s celebrate a harvest feast (three days), later regarded as the ''[[Thanksgiving (United States)|First Thanksgiving]]'', noted for the temporary peace between the English and the local Indians. The celebration is believed by later historians to have coincided with [[Michaelmas]], observed on September 29 by the Anglican Communion on the calendar used in England at the time. * [[November 11]] – The ship ''[[Fortune (Plymouth Colony ship)|Fortune]]'' arrives at [[Plymouth Colony]], with 35 more settlers. * [[December 31]] – [[Thirty Years' War]]: The [[Peace of Nikolsburg]] is signed between [[Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor]] and [[Gabor Bethlen]], Prince of Transylvania. Bethlen agrees to renounce his claims to Hungary. In return Bethlen receives several counties and lands along the eastern border of the Holy Roman Empire, and Moravia is granted religious freedom. * [[December]] – The Dutch mathematician and astronomer, [[Willebrord Snel van Royen]] (1580–1626), reveals he has rediscovered the [[law of refraction]], also known as ''Snellius' law''.<ref name="Sarton1936">{{cite book|author=George Sarton|title=A Volume of Studies on the History of Mathematics and the History of Science: Presented to Professor David Eugene Smith on His 76th Birthday (Jan. 21, 1936)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ddPuAAAAMAAJ|year=1936|publisher=Saint Catherine Press Limited|pages=724–725}}</ref> === Date unknown === * The Venezuelan city of [[Petare]] is founded by Spanish conquistadors, as ''San Jose de Guanarito''. * The Swedish city of [[Gothenburg]] is founded by King [[Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Maurice Willmore Barley|author2=Council for British Archaeology|title=European towns: their archaeology and early history|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SLYnAAAAYAAJ|year=1977|publisher=Published for the Council for British Archaeology by Academic Press|isbn=978-0-12-078850-7|page=117}}</ref> The king also grants city rights to [[Luleå]], [[Piteå]] and Torneå ([[Tornio]]). [[Riga]] falls under the rule of [[Sweden]]. * [[Tamblot]] rallies an unknown, large number of people in [[Bohol]], [[Captaincy General of the Philippines]] to revolt against the [[Spanish Empire]].<ref>{{cite book |title= Philippine Political and Cultural History: The Philippines Since Pre-Spanish Times|last=Zaide|first=Gregorio|year=1949|volume=1 |location= Manila |publisher=R.P. Garcia Publishing Company|pages=348}}</ref> * The [[Dutch East India Company]] sends 2,000 soldiers, under the command of [[Jan Pieterszoon Coen]], to the [[Banda Islands]], in order to force the local inhabitants to accept the Dutch trade monopoly on the lucrative [[nutmeg]], grown almost exclusively on those islands. The soldiers proceed to massacre most of the 15,000 indigenous inhabitants. </onlyinclude> == Births == [[File:Thomas Willis ODNB.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Thomas Willis]]]] [[File:Lamoral Claudius Franz von Thurn und Taxis.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Lamoral II Claudius Franz, Count of Thurn and Taxis]]]] [[File:Thurzo Erzsebet.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Erzsébet Thurzó]]]] [[File:Lely, William Penn.jpg|thumb|110px|[[William Penn (Royal Navy officer)|William Penn]]]] [[File:Rutger von Ascheberg.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Rutger von Ascheberg]] born [[2 June]]]] [[File:Edward Proger Peter Lely.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Edward Proger]]]] === January–March === * [[January 16]] – [[Magnus Celsius]], Swedish astronomer and mathematician (d. [[1679]]) * [[January 27]] – [[Thomas Willis]], English doctor who played an important part in the history of anatomy (d. [[1675]]) * [[January 30]] – [[George II Rákóczi]], Hungarian nobleman (d. [[1660]]) * [[February 2]] – [[Johannes Schefferus]], Alsatian-born humanist (d. [[1679]]) * [[February 4]] – [[Frederick, Burgrave of Dohna]], Dutch officer, and governor of Orange (d. [[1688]]) * [[February 14]] – [[Sibylla Schwarz]], German poet (d. [[1638]]) * [[February 20]] – [[Erzsébet Thurzó]], Hungarian noblewoman (d. [[1642]]) * [[February 21]] – [[Rebecca Nurse]], Massachusetts colonist, executed as a witch (d. [[1692]]) * February – [[Lamoral II Claudius Franz, Count of Thurn and Taxis]], Postmaster General of the Holy Roman Empire (1646–1676) (d. [[1676]]) * [[March 1]] – [[John Alleyn (barrister)|John Alleyn]], Cornish barrister (d. [[1663]]) * [[March 2]] – [[Louis Günther II, Count of Schwarzburg-Ebeleben]] (1642–1681) (d. [[1681]]) * [[March 9]] – [[Egbert van der Poel]], Dutch painter (d. [[1664]]) * [[March 16]] – [[Georg Neumark]], German poet and composer of hymns (d. [[1681]]) * [[March 24]] – [[John VI, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst]] (1621–1667) (d. [[1667]]) * [[March 26]] ''(bapt.)'' – [[Jacob van der Ulft]], Dutch painter (d. [[1689]]) * [[March 27]] – [[Margrave Charles Magnus of Baden-Durlach]] (d. [[1658]]) * [[March 28]] – [[Heinrich Schwemmer]], German music teacher and composer (d. [[1696]]) * [[March 31]] – [[Andrew Marvell]], English metaphysical poet and politician (d. [[1678]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Andrew Marvell, Poet & Politician, 1621-78: An Exhibition to Commemorate the Tercentenary of His Death, British Library Reference Division, 14 July-1 October 1978|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wLoIAQAAIAAJ|year=1978|publisher=British Museum Publications for the British Library|isbn=978-0-7141-0395-2|page=9|language=en}}</ref> === April–June === * [[April 1]] – [[Guru Tegh Bahadur]], 9th Sikh Guru (d. [[1675]]) * [[April 7]] – [[Crato, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken]] (1640–1642) (d. [[1642]]) * [[April 17]] ** [[Henry Vaughan]], Welsh author (d. [[1695]])<ref name="Ward1949">{{cite book|author=Adolphus William Ward|title=The Cambridge history of English literature: From the beginnings to the cycles of romance|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XOk8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA37|year=1949|publisher=CUP Archive|pages=37|language=en}}</ref> ** [[Thomas Vaughan (philosopher)|Thomas Vaughan]], Welsh philosopher (d. [[1666]])<ref name="Ward1949"/> * [[April 23]] ** [[Georg Arnold]], Austrian musician (d. [[1676]]) ** [[William Penn (Royal Navy officer)|William Penn]], English admiral and politician (d. [[1670]]) * [[April 25]] – [[Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery]], Anglo-Irish soldier, statesman and dramatist (d. [[1679]]) * [[May 25]] – [[David Beck]], Dutch portrait painter (d. [[1656]]) * [[June 2]] ** [[Rutger von Ascheberg]], Courland-born soldier in Swedish service (d. [[1693]]) ** [[Jørgen Bjelke]], Norwegian officer and nobleman (d. [[1696]]) ** [[Isaac van Ostade]], Dutch painter (d. [[1649]]) * [[June 6]] – [[Petar Zrinski]], Croatian viceroy (executed [[1671]]) * [[June 16]] – [[Edward Proger]], Member of Parliament for Brecknockshire (d. [[1713]]) * [[June 29]] – [[Willem van der Zaan]], Dutch admiral (d. [[1669]]) === July–September === * [[July 1]] – [[Cornelis de Man]], Dutch painter (d. [[1706]]) * [[July 8]] ** [[Jean de La Fontaine]], French writer (d. [[1695]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Marie Odile Sweetser|title=La Fontaine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6M9cAAAAMAAJ|year=1987|publisher=Twayne Publishers|isbn=978-0-8057-6639-4|page=1|language=en}}</ref> ** [[Leonora Christina Ulfeldt]], Danish countess and author (d. [[1698]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lund |first1=Emil Ferdinand Svitzer |title=Danske malede portraetter: en beskrivende katalog |volume=2 |date=1897 |publisher=Gyldendal |location=Copenhagen |pages=193–203 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GAkwAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA193 |chapter=Leonora Christina, Grevinde Ulfeld |language=da}}</ref> * [[July 13]] ** Last baby beaver born on Exmoor until July 13, 2021 <ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-57808517|title = First baby beaver born on Exmoor in 400 years|work = BBC News|date = July 13, 2021}}</ref> * [[July 22]] ** [[Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury]], English politician (d. [[1683]]) ** [[Thomas Hanford]], New England settler, Puritan minister (d. [[1693]]) ** [[Kinoshita Jun'an]], Japanese philosopher and Confucian scholar (d. [[1699]]) * [[July 24]] – [[Jan Andrzej Morsztyn]], Polish poet (d. [[1693]]) * [[August 12]] – [[Albert d'Orville]], Jesuit priest and missionary, cartographer (d. [[1662]]) * [[August 13]] ** [[Sir John Pakington, 2nd Baronet]], English politician (d. [[1680]]) ** [[Israel Silvestre]], French topographical etcher (d. [[1691]]) * [[August 19]] – [[Gerbrand van den Eeckhout]], Dutch painter (d. [[1674]]) * [[August 22]] – [[Adriaen van Gaesbeeck]], Dutch painter of genre subjects and portraits (d. [[1650]]) * [[August 28]] – [[Sir Richard Howe, 2nd Baronet]], English Member of Parliament (d. [[1703]]) * [[September 8]] – [[Louis, Grand Condé]], French general (d. [[1686]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Louis II de Bourbon, 4e prince de Condé {{!}} French general and prince |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Louis-II-de-Bourbon-4e-prince-de-Conde |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=20 March 2021 |language=en}}</ref> * [[September 9]] – [[Henry X, Count of Reuss-Lobenstein]], Rector of the University of Leipzig (d. [[1671]]) === October–December === * [[October 3]] ** [[Claude Maltret]], French Jesuit (d. [[1674]]) ** [[Friedrich Werner]], German musician (d. [[1660]]) * [[October 8]] – [[Maximilian Henry of Bavaria]], Roman Catholic bishop (d. [[1688]]) * [[October 18]] – [[Michael Angelo Immenraet]], Flemish painter (d. [[1683]]) * [[October 20]] – [[Şehzade Ömer]], Ottoman prince (d. [[1622]]) * [[October 21]] ** [[Nicholas Barré]], French Minim friar, priest and founder (d. [[1686]]) ** [[Richard Standish]], English politician (d. [[1662]]) * [[October 23]] – [[Lord John Stewart]], Scottish aristocrat, Royalist commander in the English Civil War (d. [[1644]]) * [[October 24]] – [[Serafina of God]], founder of seven Carmelite monasteries of nuns in southern Italy (d. [[1699]]) * [[October 29]] – [[The London Pageant of 1621]] celebrates the inauguration of [[Edward Barkham (Lord Mayor)]].<ref>Tracey Hill, ''Pageantry and Power: A Cultural History of the Early Modern Lord Mayor's Show, 1585–1639'' (Manchester, 2017), p. 312.</ref> * [[November 11]] – [[Israel Tonge]], English churchman and anti-Catholic conspirator (d. [[1680]]) * [[November 15]] ** [[Cornelis Geelvinck]], Dutch mayor (d. [[1689]]) ** [[Henry Mordaunt, 2nd Earl of Peterborough]], English diplomat (d. [[1697]]) * [[December 3]] – [[Bohuslav Balbín]], Czech writer and Jesuit (d. [[1688]]) * [[December 10]] – [[Christian Albert, Burgrave and Count of Dohna]], German nobleman and general in the army of Brandenburg (d. [[1677]]) * [[December 12]] – [[Gerard Pietersz Hulft]], Dutch general (d. [[1656]]) * [[December 23]] ** [[Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham]], English politician (d. [[1682]]) ** [[Edmund Berry Godfrey]], English magistrate whose mysterious death caused anti-Catholic uproar in England (d. [[1678]]) === Approximate date === * [[Richard Allestree]], English churchman and provost of Eton College (d. [[1681]]) == Deaths == === January–March === [[File:Paul V Caravaggio.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Pope Paul V]]]] [[File:1593 ALDOBRANDINI PIETRO SMOM.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Pietro Aldobrandini]]]] [[File:Ana de Jesús2.jpg|thumb|110px|Servant of God [[Ana de Jesús]]]] * [[January 15]] – [[Christopher Pickering (MP)|Christopher Pickering]], British politician (b. [[1556]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/pickering-christopher-1556-1621|title=PICKERING, Christopher (c.1556-1621), of Threlkeld, Cumb.; later of Ormside alias Prinshead, Westmld.|website=History of Parliament|access-date=20 May 2018}}</ref> * [[January 28]] – [[Pope Paul V]] (b. [[1552]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Kenneth Meyer Setton|title=Venice, Austria, and the Turks in the Seventeenth Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XN51y209fR8C&pg=PA37|year=1991|publisher=American Philosophical Society|isbn=978-0-87169-192-7|pages=37|language=en}}</ref> * [[January 29]] – [[Francis Taylor (martyr)|Francis Taylor]], Mayor of Dublin, Ireland (b. c. [[1550]]) * [[February 10]] – [[Pietro Aldobrandini]], Italian cardinal, patron of the arts (b. [[1571]]) * [[February 15]] – [[Michael Praetorius]], German composer (b. [[1571]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Selma Jeanne Cohen|author2=George E. Dorris|title=International Encyclopedia of Dance: A Project of Dance Perspectives Foundation, Inc|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jgYKAQAAMAAJ|year=1998|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-512309-8|page=244|language=en}}</ref> * [[February 16]] – [[Sir Thomas Gerard, 1st Baronet]], English Member of Parliament (b. [[1560]]) * [[February 28]] – [[Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany]] (b. [[1590]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Cosimo II {{!}} grand duke of Tuscany {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Cosimo-II |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=3 January 2022 |language=en}}</ref> * [[March 4]] – [[Ana de Jesús]], Spanish [[Discalced Carmelite]] nun, spiritual writer and Servant of God (b. [[1545]]) * [[March 8]] – [[Enevold Kruse]], Danish noble (b. [[1554]]) * [[March 27]] – [[Benedetto Giustiniani]], Italian Catholic cardinal (b. [[1554]]) * [[March 28]] – [[Ottavio Rinuccini]], Italian composer (b. [[1562]]) * [[March 31]] – King [[Philip III of Spain]], (Philip II of Portugal) (b. [[1578]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Frederick Charles Danvers|title=The Portuguese in India: Being a History of the Rise and Decline of Their Eastern Empire|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MwOV-eenKy0C&pg=PA219|year=1988|publisher=Asian Educational Services|isbn=978-81-206-0391-2|pages=219|language=en}}</ref> === April–June === [[File:Xainctonge Gemälde2.jpg|thumb|110px|Venerable [[Anne de Xainctonge]]]] * [[April 1]] – [[Cristofano Allori]], Italian painter (b. [[1577]]) * [[April 6]] ** [[Archduchess Maria Christina of Austria (1574–1621)|Archduchess Maria Christina of Austria]] (b. [[1574]]) ** [[Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford]] (b. [[1539]]) * [[April 18]] – [[Bridget Chaworth]], English noble (b. [[1542]]) * [[April 21]] – [[Anne of Ostfriesland]], German noblewoman (b. [[1562]]) * April – [[John Carver (Plymouth Colony governor)|John Carver]], first governor of Plymouth Colony * [[May 3]] – [[Elizabeth Bacon (died 1621)|Elizabeth Bacon]], English Tudor gentlewoman (b. [[1541]]) * [[May 11]] – [[Johann Arndt]], German theologian (b. [[1555]]) * [[May 15]] – [[Hendrick de Keyser]], Dutch architect and sculptor (b. [[1565]]) * [[June 2]] ** [[Dorothea of Lorraine]] (b. [[1545]]) ** [[Eilhard Lubinus]], German theologian (b. [[1565]]) * [[June 8]] – [[Anne de Xainctonge]], French [[Roman Catholic]] nun (b. [[1567]]) * [[June 21]] ** [[Kryštof Harant|Kryštof Harant z Polžic a Bezdružic]], Bohemian composer, soldier and author (executed) (b. [[1564]]) ** [[Maxmilián Hošťálek]], Czech noble and politician (executed) (b. [[1564]]) ** [[Joachim Andreas von Schlick]], Czech leader (executed) (b. [[1569]]) ** [[Jan Jesenius]], Slovak physician (executed) (b. [[1566]]) * [[June 23]] – [[Zsigmond Forgách]], Hungarian noble and soldier (b. [[1559]]) * [[June 26]] – [[Christence Kruckow]], Danish noble (b. [[1558]]) === July–September === [[File:Guillaume-du-Vair.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Guillaume du Vair]]]] [[File:John Barclay (poet).jpg|thumb|110px|[[John Barclay (poet)|John Barclay]]]] [[File:Sheik bahayi.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī]]]] [[File:Saint Robert Bellarmine.png|thumb|110px|Saint [[Robert Bellarmine]]]] * [[July 2]] – [[Thomas Harriot]], English astronomer and mathematician (b. c. [[1560]]) * [[July 4]] – [[Jean de Bonsi]], Catholic cardinal (b. [[1554]]) * [[July 10]] – [[Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, Count of Bucquoy]], soldier in Habsburg service (b. [[1571]]) * [[July 13]] – [[Albert VII, Archduke of Austria]] for a few months in 1619 and (b. [[1559]]) * [[July 19]] – [[Don Giovanni de' Medici]], Italian military commander and diplomat (b. [[1567]]) * [[July 30]] – [[Rudolph, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst]] (b. [[1576]]) * [[August 3]] ** [[Guillaume du Vair]], French author and lawyer (b. [[1556]]) ** [[Anna Juliana Gonzaga]], Archduchess of Austria and nun (b. [[1566]]) * [[August 7]] – Count [[Jobst of Limburg]] (b. [[1560]]) * [[August 13]] – [[John Berchmans]], Belgian [[Jesuit]] scholastic and saint (b. [[1599]]) * [[August 15]] – [[John Barclay (poet)|John Barclay]], Scottish writer (b. [[1582]])<ref>{{cite web |title=John Barclay {{!}} Scottish writer {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Barclay |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=14 August 2022 |language=en}}</ref> * [[August 23]] – [[Antonio il Verso]], Italian composer (b. [[1565]]) * [[August 30]] – [[Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī]], one of the main co-founders of Isfahan School of Islamic Philosophy (b. [[1547]]) * [[September 7]] – [[Peter Warburton (judge)|Peter Warburton]], English Justice of the Common Plea (b. [[1540]]) * [[September 17]] – [[Robert Bellarmine]], Italian [[Roman Catholic]] bishop, saint, proponent of futurism (b. [[1542]]) * [[September 20]] – [[Henry of Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne]], French noble (b. [[1578]]) * [[September 24]] – [[Jan Karol Chodkiewicz]], Polish military commander (b. [[1560]]) * [[September 25]] – [[Mary Sidney]], English writer, patroness and translator (b. [[1561]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Pearl Hogrefe|title=Women of Action in Tudor England: Nine Biographical Sketches|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PzUqAAAAYAAJ|year=1977|publisher=Iowa State University Press|isbn=978-0-8138-0910-6|page=114}}</ref> === October–December === [[File:Phélypeaux de Pontchartrain, Paul.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Paul Phélypeaux de Pontchartrain]]]] * [[October 8]] – [[Antoine de Montchrestien]], French dramatist and economist (b. c. [[1575]]) * [[October 11]] – [[Andrzej Sapieha]], Polish nobleman (b. [[1539]]) * [[October 16]] – [[Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck]], Dutch composer (b. [[1562]]) * [[October 19]] – [[Imre Thurzó]], Hungarian noble (b. [[1598]]) * [[October 21]] – [[Paul Phélypeaux de Pontchartrain]], French politician (b. [[1569]]) * [[November 26]] – [[Ralph Agas]], English surveyor (b. c. [[1540]]) * [[December 4]] – [[Andrew Willet]], English theologian (b. [[1562]]) * [[December 13]] – [[Katarina Stenbock]], queen of [[Gustav I of Sweden]] (b. [[1535]]) * [[December 15]] – [[Charles d'Albert, duc de Luynes]], Constable of France (b. [[1578]]) == References == {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:1621}} [[Category:1621| ]]
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