1656 deaths

Russian military leader and diplomat (died 1656)

Swedish politician (1624-1656)

English clergyman (1597-1656)

French painter active in Naples (c.1590-1656)

Russian bishop

Bosnian Croat outlaw

Silesian Renaissance humanist

Dutch painter (1605-1656)

Dutch general (1621-1656)

Coptic Orthodox Pope of Alexandria, Egypt

Italian physician (1600-1656)

German historian (1595-1656)

Rembrandt's mistress after the death of his wife Saskia

Chinese General

Muslim scholar

Italian mathematician and physicist

Italian painter (1607-1656)

French composer

German theologian

French librarian and jurist

French noble

French painter (1612-1656)

Italian painter (1612-1656)

Italian architect and scenographer (1606–1656)

Dutch Golden Age painter (1597–1656)

Italian cardinal

painter from the Northern Netherlands (1627-1656)

Italian theologian and writer (1594–1656)

Italian composer

Polish noble and missionary to China

French noble and soldier (1611-1656)

Uzbek military commander, emir of Samarqand

Scholar & civil servant of Joseon (1574 – 1656)

Roman Catholic prelate

(1585-1656)

painter (1579-1656)

Dutch Golden Age painter

Italian admiral

nobleman and poet (1591-1656)

Spanish painter (1590-1656)

daimyo

Grand Vizier of Mughal Empire (1645-1656)

Spanish composer

lady-in-waiting to Kösem Sultan and Turhan Hatice Sultan

Iranian poet and physician

Soldier, poet and writer (1596-1656)

French composer

English politician

Spanish artist (1595-1651)

Polish noble

American woman hanged after conviction for witchcraft

theologian

Flamish jurist and historian

Italian priest