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The motte of Fotheringhay Castle where Mary Stuart was imprisoned in 1587[/caption]
Queen Elizabeth I signs the death warrant for Mary, Queen of Scots (Feb 1), beheaded a week later (Feb 8), a group of English settlers arrive on Roanoke Island off the coast of North Carolina, in order to re-establish the deserted colony (Jul 22), Toyotomi Hideyoshi becomes the Daijō-daijin in Japan - and all these fine people were born:
1587-xxxx Heikki Tuomaanpoika Kirkon-Kokko** father of Aune Heikintytär Kirkon-Kokko - Ilmajoki, Sweden-Finland (between 1652 and 1668/60-81)
1587-0102 Anders Christensen Arrebo* bishop/ poet/translator - Ærøskøbing, Denmark-Norway (1637/50)
1587-0106 Gaspar de Guzmán* Spanish nobleman/Count-Duke of Olivares /politician - Rome, Papal States (1645/58)
1587-0108 Johannes Fabricius* astronomer/discoverer of sunspots - Resterhafe, East Friesland (1616/29)
1587-0201 Pár Esterházy* nobleman - Galántha, Kingdom of Hungary (1645/57)
1587-0220 Emanuel Sueyro* intelligent agent/historian - Antwerp, Duchy of Brabant, Spanish Netherlands (1629/42)
1587-0426 Abraham van der Haagen* (B) Dutch Golden Era painter/engraver - Dordrecht, Dutch Republic (1639/51)
1587-0517 Esaias van de Velde* (B) landscape painter - Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (1630/43)
1587-0615 Gabriel Gustafsson Oxenstierna* statesman - Tyresö, Sweden (or Reval, Estonia) (1640/53)
1587-0624 William Arnold* a founding settler in Rhode Island - Ilcherset, Somerset, England (c. 1676)
1587-0818 Virginia Dare* first English child to be born in the new a New World English overseas possession, named after the place – Roanoke Colony, Virginia
1587-0918 Francesca Caccini* composer/singer/music teacher - Florence, Italy (c.1641)
1587-1017 Nathan Field* dramatist/actor - England (1620/c.33)
1587-1022 Joachim Jungius* mathematician/philosopher - Lübeck, Germany (1657/69)
1587-1117 Louis De Geer* Dutch entrepreneur/industrialist – Liège, Belgium (1652/64)
1587-1117 Charles Lallemant* jesuit missionary – Paris, Kingdom of France (1674/87)
1587-1117 Joost van den Vondel* Dutch poet/writer/playwright – Cologne, Holy Roman Empire (1679/91)
Updated 31.3.2023-2
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