1656 deaths

King of Portugal

Dutch Golden Age painter (1592-1656)

Dutch landscape painter (1596-1656)

elector of Saxony

Archbishop of Armagh (1581-1656)

Danish mathematician and physician (1561-1656)

Spanish artist (1576-1656)

Founder of the Savoy-Carignano branch of the House of Savoy

French painter and engraver (1606-1656)

missionary

Italian general (1599-1656)

Doge of Venice (1580-1656)

painter from the Northern Netherlands (1591-1656)

Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg

British bishop and writer (1574-1656)

Dutch portrait painter (1621-1656)

Dutch painter (1609-1656)

Doge of Venice (1585-1656)

Welsh composer

German Lutheran theologian (1586-1656)

Italian composer

Polish-Lithuanian general

King of Ayutthaya

Italian painter (1616-1656)

Italian Baroque painter (1600-1656)

Italian lawyer and astronomer

Danish noble

Duke of Joyeuse

Polish noble

Swedish general (1619-1656)

Italian violinist, keyboardist, and composer

Italian scientist

German noble

French astronomer

Dutch painter (1580-1656)

Lithuanian noble (1609-1656)

Ruler of Bijapur, Karnataka

Baroque sculptor

Ottoman grand vizier (1611-1656)

Ottoman princess,daughter of Sultan Murad III

Italian painter

former King of Thailand

king of Ayutthaya

Spanish painter

English military officer hired by the Pilgrims (1584-1656)

French statesman

Swedish politician (1586-1656)

Italian Cardinal (1597-1656)

Polish prince

English physician and early Baconian natural philosopher

Croatian (Istrian) villager who was accused of being a vampire

English mathematician

Italian painter (1582-1656)

Bishop of Samogitia and Vilnius

Italian composer and organist (1589-1656)

German poet

Dutch poet (1597–1656)

German noble (1618-1656)

Austrian Field Marshal

English missionary in America (1579–1656)