1659 deaths

Dutch seafarer, explorer and merchant (1603–1659)

Indian prince

German writer

Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp (1597-1659)

17th King of Joseon Dynasty (1619 -1659)

Electress of Saxony

Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg by marriage (1601-1659)

Daughter of Ottoman Sultan Murad IV

Dutch painter (1633–1659)

Jesuit missionary into China

Margrave of Baden-Durlach (1594-1659)

Spanish Roman Catholic archbishop and Viceroy of New Spain (1600-1659)

17th-century Dutch painter (1621–1659)

Hungarian teacher, philosopher, Calvinist theologist (1625-1659)

Doge of Venice (1589-1659)

French writer

Countess of East Frisia

Founder of the 'Alawi dynasty

Roman Catholic archbishop (1625-1659)

Ottoman grand vizier (1610–1658)

the last Saadi sultan of Morocco

5th Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies

Patriarch of Constantinople

English judge

Mughal princess (1618-1659)

Italian librettist (1598-1659)

Italian physician to the Pope

English pickpocket and fence

Flemish painter (1612-1659)

Spanish viceroy

first wife and chief consort of Shivaji

Cambodian King (1642-1658)

Irish adventurer

Italian cardinal

Polish nobleman (1612-1659)

French theologian and biblical scholar

French Roman Catholic religious, bishop and blessed

Sultan of Brunei

French statesman and diplomat

German Noblewoman

Italian missionary

French painter

Roman Catholic cardinal (1582-1659)

Portuguese Jesuit missionary in China (1574–1659)

Dutch engraver (1586-1659)

Spanish poet

Wodeyar ruler of Mysore

Dutch painter

Dutch clockmaker

Patriarch of Ethiopia (1579-1659)

17th century Italian poisoner

Albanian former Ottoman architect

Italian painter (1624-1659)

Ottoman statesman and rebellion leader of Abaza origin (d. 1659)

Austrian military

Spanish poet

Indian general

Italian writer, poet, catholic bishop and archivist (1585-1659)

Ruled Madurai between 1623 to 1659

Danish physician and humanist