1638 deaths

Italian missionary

Catholic cardinal

Italian composer

Italian cardinal

painter from the Northern Netherlands (1580–1638)

Italian painter (1601-1638)

Japanese daimyo of the early Edo period, Lord of Shimabara

Dutch painter (1605-1638)

Dutch naval officer and explorer

Scottish politician and military leader

Count of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen

German poet

lord of Stevensweert, and stadhouder of Spanish Upper Guelders (1573-1638)

pen name of the Dutch Christian scholar Peter van der Kun

Japanese Daimyo

Italian architect and engineer

Polish noble

Italian painter (1560-1638)

Ottoman grand vizier

French composer and lutenist

composer

Polish nobleman

Flemish painter active in Genoa (1591-1638)

Italian luthier

Marshal of France (1575-1638)

Occitan language writer from Gascony

Spanish magistrate and bishop (1561-1638) born in New Granada

Italian composer (1570–1638)

German musician

Spanish composer

Italian painter (1583-1638)

cossack explorer

Austrian hofmeister

Italian painter (1573-1638)

British actor and theatre impresario (1579–1638)

Giovanni Boveri (Boverius) (Saluzzo, 1568-Genoa, 1638) was an Italian jurist, who became a Capuchin Friar Minor, taking the name Zacharias. He is known as a historian and theologian. According to the Catholic Encyclopedia he was a “man of great learning not only as an historian, but as a controversial writer”.

French composer

Flemish sculptor (1588–1638)

Sufi and Islamic scholar (1533 - 1638)

spice merchant from Antwerp and patron of the arts

German-French-Italian engraver, etcher, and publisher (1566-1638)

German alchemist

One of the leaders of Shimabara Rebellion

Bolognese painter (1577-1638)

daimyo

maharaja of Jodhpur

Italian composer

Spanish poet

Italian historian and scholar, nephew of Giovanni Battista Guarini and author of the Compendio Historico and Famiglie illustri della città di Ferrara

Dutch historian (1568-1638)

Cossack rebel

Capuchin priest, missionary and martyr

(1591-1638)

painter (1583-1638)

politician

Imperial Russian diplomat

emperor of Đại Việt

German jurist (1577-1638)

Bhattadeva (1558–1638), (full name, Baikunthanatha Bhagavata Bhattacharya) is acknowledged as the father of Assamese prose. Though Bhaktiratnakar-katha, the Assamese translation of Sankardev's Sanskrit composition Bhaktiratnakar by Gopala Charana Dwija preceded the works of Bhattadeva, Bhattadeva's prose had an influence in the development of a high and dignified style. Bhattadeva's and Gopala Charana Dvija's 16th century works are considered to be the earliest examples of prose in Indian languages. Bhattadeva's erudition in Sanskrit grammar and literature, and his command over the Bhagavata e