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Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564-1642)
Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu
French clergyman, cardinal, noble and statesman (1585-1642)
Marie de' Medici
Queen of France, second wife of King Henry IV of France (1575-1642)
Guido Reni
Bolognese painter (1575–1642)
Safi of Persia
The sixth Safavid king (1629–1642)
Dmitry Pozharsky
Rurikid prince (1577-1642)
Saskia van Uylenburgh
wife of Rembrandt van Rijn
Martine Bertereau
French scientist (c. 1590 - after 1642)
Sophia Hedwig of Brunswick-Lüneburg
German noblewoman (1592-1642)
Halshka Hulevychivna
Ukrainian philanthropist and Orthodox saint (c. 1575/77-1642)
Friedrich Kettler
Baltic German noble (1569-1642)
Henri Coiffier de Ruzé, Marquis of Cinq-Mars
French noble (1620-1642)
Frans Francken the Younger
Flemish painter (1581–1642)
William Augustus, Duke of Brunswick-Harburg
German Prince
Jean Nicolet
French explorer & independent fur-trader (Born: C.E.1598—Demised: C.E.1642)
William of Nassau-Siegen
Count of Nassau-Siegen, field marshal in the Dutch army, governor of Emmerik, Heusden and Sluis, lord of Poederoijen, owner/creator of the album amicorum of Wilhelm van Nassau-Hilchenbach (1592–1642)
Jean Louis de Nogaret de La Valette
French noble (1554-1642)
Peda Venkata Raya
King of the Vijayanagara
René Goupil
French Jesuit lay brother and missionary (1608-1642)
Countess Elisabeth of Nassau
French noble (1577-1642)
Andries Both
Dutch painter (c.1612–1642)
Johann Daniel Mylius
alchemist and composer
Giovanni Doria
Spanish noble (1573-1642)
Christian Günther I, Count of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
Co-ruler of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
North American Martyrs
group of French Jesuit martyrs
Ernst Magnus Dönhoff
Polish noble (1581-1642)
Luigi Caetani
Catholic cardinal
John de Critz
Flemish painter at the English royal court (1551-1642)
William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby
6th Earl of Derby
Pietro Maria Borghese
Italian cardinal
Françoise de Montmorency-Fosseux
Mistress to the French King
Alban Roe
English Benedictine martyr
Hazrat Ishaan
Sufi saint from Bokhara
Jakub Zadzik
Polish noble and bishop
Giovanni Battista Buonamente
Italian composer (1595–1642)
Johann Matthäus Meyfart
German theologian and writer
Cosimo de Torres
cardinal and apostolic nuncio (1584-1642)
Polyxena of Lobkovic
Bohemian noblewoman (1566-1642)
Willem van der Vliet
Dutch painter (c.1584–1642)
Outey
Outey (1577 – 5 January 1642) was a Cambodian prince who served as the regent from 1627 to 1642.
Zygmunt Karol Radziwiłł
Polish-Lithuanian nobleman
Abdul-Haqq Dehlavi
Islamic scholar
Walatta Petros
saint of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church
Festus Hommius
Dutch theologian (1576-1642)
Giovanni Agostino De Marini
politician
Sengge Namgyal
Ruler of Ladakh
Johann König
German artist (1586-1642)
Karma Tenkyong
King of central Tibet (Ü-Tsang) (1606-1642)
Francesco Maria Carafa
Italian noble (1580-1642)
Giovanni Battista Durazzo
Doge of the Republic of Genoa and king of Corsica
Simon de la Vallée
architect (1590–1642)
Benjamin, Duke of Frontenay
French Huguenot
John Ernest, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg
Count of Hanau-Münzenberg
George Stewart, 9th Seigneur d'Aubigny
Scottish nobleman and royalist military commander
Charles Howard, 2nd Earl of Nottingham
English noble (1579-1642)
Botum Reachea I
Cambodian King (1640-1642)
Francis of Hatzfeld
German prince-bishop
Piotr Pac
Polish-Lithuanian noble
Crato of Nassau-Saarbrücken
Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken (1640-1642)
Shao Mi
Chinese artist (1592-1642)