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1672 deaths

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John II Casimir Vasa

King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania (1648–1668)

Heinrich Schütz

German composer and organist (1585–1672)

Peter Stuyvesant

Dutch politician; director-general of New Netherland (1612-1672)

Grand Pensionary of Holland (1625–1672)

Anne Bradstreet

Anglo-American poet (1612–1672)

Secretary of the Royal Society and Bishop of Chester

Adriaen van de Velde

Dutch painter and engraver (1636-1672)

Al-Rashid of Morocco

Sultan of Morocco (1631-1672)

Pedro Calungsod

Filipino catechist, saint and martyr

Francis Willughby

English ornithologist and ichthyologist

Franciscus Sylvius

Dutch physician and chemist of Leyden, Netherlands

Georg Stiernhielm

Swedish noble (1598-1672)

François de La Mothe Le Vayer

French philosopher and writer (1588–1672)

Pierre Séguier

Ancien Régime office-holder (1588-1672)

Madeleine Béjart

French stage actress

Anne Marie Martinozzi

princess of Conti (1637-1672)

Marguerite of Lorraine

17th-century noblewoman

French foundress of the Ursuline Monastery in Quebec

French physician

Flemish painter (1595-1672)

Frederick William III, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg

Last Duke of Saxe-Altenburg

Dutch explorer, writer, sinologist (1618-1672)

Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich

Royal Navy admiral (1625-1672)

Marie Thérèse, Madame Royale

French princess

Abdullah Qutb Shah

sultan of Qutb Shah (1614-1672)

Ludmilla Elisabeth of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt

German noblewoman; Countess of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt and hymn poet (1640-1672)

Diego Luis de San Vitores

Spanish missionary (1627–1672)

Giovanni Battista Gisleni

Italian architect

Jacques Champion de Chambonnières

French composer and harpsichordist

French lutenist and composer

Catholic cardinal

painter of miniatures from England (1609-1672)

Jean-Armand du Peyrer

French military officer

Hendrick Bloemaert

17th-century Dutch Golden Age painter

French bishop and poet (1605-1672)

English architect and scholar

Abraham Lambertsz van den Tempel

painter from the Northern Netherlands (1622-1672)

Cornelis de Witt

Dutch politician (1623-1672)

Macarius III Ibn al-Za'im

Melkite Patriarch of Antioch

Orazio Benevoli

Italian composer (1605-1672)

Ginevra Cantofoli

Italian painter (1618-1672)

Yoshida Mitsuyoshi

Japanese Mathematician

Charles Stewart, 3rd Duke of Richmond

Scottish-English nobleman (1639-1672)

Christian, Duke of Brieg

Duke of Legnica and Brieg

Pedro Antonio Fernández de Castro, 10th Count of Lemos

Jacques Rohault

French scientist

Dutch painter (1631-1672)

Hoshina Masayuki

daimyo of the early Edo period; 1st lord of Aizu

Ali Adil Shah II

sultan of Bijapur

Charles-Paris of Orléans

Duke of Longueville, Duke of Estouteville, sovereign Prince of Neuchâtel and Valangin, Count of Dunois, Count of Saint-Pol, Count of Tancarville and elected candidate for the Polish throne (1649-1672)

Barom Reachea VIII

king of Cambodia

17th-century French painter (1615-1672)

Chinese poet (1612-1672)

British composer

Ichijō Akiyoshi

son of the emperor of Japan (1605-1672)

Richard Nicolls

first English colonial governor of New York province

Francesco Maria Mancini

Catholic cardinal

Francesco Garbarino

French Cistercian abbess