Deaths 1638

cornelis van haarlem



barbara longhi



january 21 – ignazio donati, italian composer (b. c. 1570)
january 27 – gonzalo de céspedes y meneses, spanish novelist (b. c. 1585)
february 26 – claude gaspard bachet de méziriac, french mathematician (b. 1581)
march 2 – william spring of pakenham, member of parliament (b. 1588)
march 22 – johann, prince of hohenzollern-sigmaringen (b. 1578)
april 1 – henry ley, 2nd earl of marlborough, english politician (b. 1595)
april 7 – shimazu tadatsune, japanese ruler of satsuma (b. 1576)
april 13 – henri, duke of rohan, french huguenot leader (b. 1579)
april 19 – jeremias drexel, jesuit writer , professor of rhetoric (b. 1581)
may 6

cornelius jansen, french bishop , religious reformer (b. 1585)
gaj singh of marwar, raja of marwar kingdom (r (b. 1595)


may 9 – frederick i, landgrave of hesse-homburg (b. 1585)
may 27 – pietro paolo floriani, italian architect (b. 1585)
june 25 – juan pérez de montalbán, spanish writer (b. 1602)
july 27 – john viii, count of nassau-siegen (b. 1583)
july 31 – sibylla schwarz, german poet (b. 1621)
august 3 – philipp moritz, count of hanau-münzenberg, german noble (b. 1605)
august 10 – anton henry, count of schwarzburg-sondershausen (1586–1638) (b. 1571)
august 12 – baltasar marradas, spanish count (b. 1560)
august 13 – carolus mulerius, dutch hispanist (b. 1601)
august 27 – john hoskins, english poet (b. 1566)
september – christoph besold, german jurist (b. 1577)
september 5 – dorothea of hanau-münzenberg, german noblewoman (b. 1556)
september 14 – john harvard, american clergyman (b. 1607)
september 24 – georg friedrich, margrave of baden-durlach (1604–1622) (b. 1573)
october 6 – jacob dircksz de graeff, dutch mayor (b. 1579)
october 4 – francis hyacinth, duke of savoy (b. 1632)
october 8 – raja wodeyar ii, king of mysore (b. 1612)
october 14 – gabriello chiabrera, italian poet (b. 1552)
october 23 – john ernest, duke of saxe-eisenach, german duke (b. 1566)
october 28 – robert petre, 3rd baron petre, english baron (b. 1599)
november 9 – johann heinrich alsted, german theologian (b. 1588)
november 11 – cornelis corneliszoon van haarlem, dutch painter (b. 1562)
november 16 – edward cecil, 1st viscount wimbledon (b. 1572)
november 19 – lelio biscia, italian catholic cardinal (b. 1575)
november 27

redemptus of cross, portuguese carmelite lay brother , martyr (b. 1598)
denis of nativity, french sailor , cartographer (b. 1600)


december 8 – ivan gundulić, croatian poet (b. 1589)
december 13 – catherine of sweden, countess palatine of kleeburg (b. 1584)
december 17 – françois leclerc du tremblay (b. 1577)
december 23 – barbara longhi, italian painter (b. 1552)