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1638 deaths

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Pieter Brueghel the Younger

Flemish painter (1564-1638)

Cornelius Jansen

Bishop and theologian (1585-1638)

Croatian baroque poet from the Republic of Ragusa

English-American clergyman and philanthropist

Adriaen Brouwer

Flemish painter (1605-1638)

third director-general of New Netherland, founder of the Swedish colony of New Sweden in 1638 (1580–1638)

Patriarch of Constantinople

Johannes Althusius

German–Dutch jurist and Calvinist political philosopher and father of modern federalism (1563-1638)

Francis Hyacinth of Savoy

Cornelis van Haarlem

Dutch painter (1562-1638)

Catherine of Sweden, Countess Palatine of Kleeburg

Foster-mother of Queen Christina of Sweden

François Leclerc du Tremblay

French Capuchin friar and political adviser (1577–1638)

painter from Italy (1552-1638)

Dutch cartographer, atlas maker and publisher (1571-1638)

Gabriello Chiabrera

Italian poet (1552-1638)

Jacques Blanchard

French painter (1600-1638)

Johann Heinrich Alsted

German theologist (1558-1638)

Claude Gaspar Bachet de Méziriac

French mathematician (1581-1638)

leader of the Shimabara Rebellion

Georg Friedrich of Baden

Margrave of Baden-Durlach, Germany

Joachim Wtewael

Dutch painter and draughtsman (1566-1638)

Paulus Moreelse

Dutch portrait painter (1571–1638)

Frederick I, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg

Founder of the junior line Hesse-Homburg

English composer

Juan Perez de Montalban

Spanish Catholic priest, dramatist, poet and novelist

John Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach

German Baroque painter (1566-1638)

Mistress to Charles IX of France

Henri II de Rohan

French soldier, writer and leader of the Huguenots (1579–1638)

Shimazu Tadatsune

First Japanese to rule over the Ryūkyū Kingdom and lord of Satsuma

Son of Ottoman Sultan Ahmed I

Scottish writer (c. 1570–1638)

Ippolita Trivulzio

Princes of Monaco

Murat Reis the Elder

Ottoman Navy officer

Jacob van Swanenburgh

painter from the Northern Netherlands (1571-1638)

Vincenzo Carducci

Italian painter (1576-1638)

Japanese painter (1617–1691)

Baltasar Marradas

Ottoman grand vizier (1550–1638)

John VIII, Count of Nassau-Siegen

Catholic Count of Nassau-Siegen;(1583-1638)

Johann, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen

first prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1578–1638)

Giovanni Andrea Ansaldo

Italian painter (1584–1638)

Manuel, Prince Hereditary of Portugal

Portuguese prince

John Tradescant the elder

English botanist (1570-1638)

Polish archbishop

Italian painter (1566-1638)

Tomasz Zamoyski

Polish noble (1594-1638)

Denis of the Nativity

French sailor and cartographer for the king of Portugal

Gillis d'Hondecoeter

Dutch painter (1575-1638)

Jeremias Drexel

German Jesuit (1581–1638)

Flemish art collector, painter (1548-1638)

Redemptus of the Cross

Carmelite lay brother and martyr (1598-1638)

Italian missionary

Magdalena van de Passe

German engraver (1600–1638)

François Thijssen

17th-century Dutch-French explorer

Grand Secretary of the late Ming Dynasty

Philip Maurice, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg

Edward Cecil, 1st Viscount Wimbledon

English military commander and politician (1572-1638)

German baroque painter (1595-1638)

Settimia Caccini

Italian composer