Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

Religious Figures & Theologians

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Jeanne-Françoise Frémyot de Chantal

Jeanne de Chantal

France

1572 – 1641 (69 years old)

French noblewoman and mystic who co-founded the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary with Francis de Sales, pioneering contemplative religious life accessible to widows and frail women.

Annecy, France

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Arts & Music

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Anthony van Dyck

Antoon van Dyck

Belgium

1599 – 1641 (42 years old)

Flemish Baroque virtuoso who transformed English portraiture as leading court painter to King Charles I.

London, United Kingdom

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Arts & Music

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Domenico Zampieri

Domenichino

Italy

1581 – 1641 (59 years old)

Leading Bolognese classical Baroque painter whose 'The Last Communion of Saint Jerome' and frescoes in Sant'Andrea della Valle set the benchmark for expressive gestures.

Naples, Italy

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Sculpture

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Jerome Duquesnoy the Elder

Jérôme Duquesnoy l'Ancien / Hiëronymus Duquesnoy de Oude

Belgium

c. 1570 – 1641 (71 years old)

Flemish sculptor and court artist to Archdukes Albert and Isabella who cast Brussels' most iconic and beloved civic monument, the bronze Manneken Pis fountain, in 1619.

Brussels, Belgium

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Arts & Music

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Sir Peter Paul Rubens

Peter Paul Rubens

Germany

28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640 (62 years old)

Supreme master of the Flemish Baroque who synthesized Venetian color, Roman monumental dynamism, and northern realism, orchestrating colossal mythological canvases and negotiating peace treaties across Europe.

Antwerp, Belgium

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Monarchs, Kings & Royalty

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Murad IV (Conqueror of Baghdad)

مراد رابع / Murad-ı Rabi

Turkey

1612 – 1640 (27 years old)

Fierce Ottoman Sultan who restored absolute imperial authority, banned alcohol and coffee, and personally recaptured Baghdad in 1638.

Sultanahmet, Istanbul, Turkey

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Religious Figures & Theologians

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Sadr al-Din Muhammad al-Shirazi (Mulla Sadra)

ملاصدرا (صدرالدین محمد شیرازی)

Iran

c. 1571 CE (979 AH) – c. 1640 CE (1050 AH) (69 years old)

Persian philosopher and theologian who revolutionized Islamic metaphysics by founding Transcendent Theosophy (Hikmat al-Muta'aliyah). Formulated the primacy of existence (Asalat al-Wujud) and substantial motion (al-Harakah al-Jawhariyyah).

Basra, Iraq

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Prophets & Divine Messengers

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Cornelius Jansen

Cornelius Jansen

Netherlands

1585 – 1638 (52 years old)

Influential Flemish-Dutch Catholic theologian and Bishop of Ypres whose monumental posthumous treatise Augustinus ignited the Jansenist theological and political controversy across seventeenth-century Europe.

Ypres, Belgium

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Art

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Pieter Brueghel the Younger

Pieter Brueghel de Jonge

Belgium

1564 – 1638 (74 years old)

Prolific Flemish painter who brilliantly preserved, replicated, and disseminated the peasant genre scenes and fantastic apocalyptic visions of his legendary father Pieter Bruegel the Elder.

Antwerp, Belgium

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Art

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Adriaen Brouwer

Adriaen Brouwer

Belgium

c. 1605 – 1638 (33 years old)

Brilliant, bohemian painter of seventeenth-century low-life tavern scenes whose expressive brushwork and raw psychological realism earned the passionate admiration of Rubens and Rembrandt.

Antwerp, Belgium

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Literature & Poetry

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Benjamin Jonson

Benjamin Jonson

Great Britain

1572 – 1637 (65 years old)

Towering Jacobean playwright, poet, and literary theorist who popularized the comedy of humours in Volpone and The Alchemist and eulogized Shakespeare.

London, United Kingdom

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Politics

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Yusuf Dey

يوسف داي

Libya

c. 1560 AD – 1637 AD (77 years old)

Influential Dey of Tunis who governed for twenty-seven years of prosperity, building the first Ottoman-style mosque with an octagonal minaret in Tunis and expanding the medina's souks.

Tunis, Tunisia

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

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Youssef Dey

يوسف داي

Tunisia

c. 1560 – 1637 (~77 years old)

Dey of Tunis from 1610 to 1637 who established the permanent administrative boundaries of the Regency of Tunis and built the landmark Youssef Dey Mosque in the Medina.

Tunis, Tunisia

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Literature & Poetry

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Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio

Lope de Vega

Spain

25 November 1562 – 27 August 1635 (72 years old)

Titanic Spanish playwright dubbed by Cervantes 'El Monstruo de la Naturaleza' (The Monster of Nature) for his astonishing output of over 1,500 plays, including Fuenteovejuna and The Dog in the Manger.

Madrid, Spain

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Arts & Music

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Reza Abbasi

رضا عباسی

Iran

c. 1565 – 1635 (70 years old)

Foremost Persian painter and miniaturist of the Safavid Golden Age under Shah Abbas I, innovator of single-sheet calligraphic drawings.

Isfahan, Iran

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Architecture

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Wenceslaus Cobergher

Wenceslaus Cobergher

Belgium

c. 1560 – 1634 (74 years old)

Brilliant Renaissance polymath who served as chief court architect and financial administrator to Archdukes Albert and Isabella, designing the Basilica of Scherpenheuvel and draining the Moëres marshlands.

Brussels, Belgium

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Politics

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Étienne Brûlé

Étienne Brûlé

France

c. 1592 – June 1633 (41 years old)

First European to see Lake Ontario, Lake Huron, and Lake Superior, legendary pioneer coureur des bois who lived as a Huron warrior.

Penetanguishene, Canada

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Literature & Poetry

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George Herbert

George Herbert

Wales

1593 – 1633 (39 years old)

Welsh-born English devotional poet and Anglican priest whose metaphysical collection The Temple fused profound spiritual intimacy with dazzling architectural verse forms.

Bemerton, United Kingdom

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