Reproduction of a Galilean telescope from circa 1620
In the year 1609, the Bank of Amsterdam is established (Jan 31), King Philip III of Spain signs an edict to expel all Moriscos from his country (Apr 4), Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian officials (Aug 25, Johannes Kepler publishes his first two laws of planetary motion, Cornelis Drebbel invents the thermostat - and all these fine people were born:
1609-0118 Henry Oxenden* poet - St. Paul, Canterbury, England (1670/61)
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1609-0214 Bartram de Fouchier* painter - Bergen op Zoom, Dutch Republic (1673/64)
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1609-0221 Raimondo Montecuccoli* soldier/ military theorist/diplomat - Pavullo nel Frignano, Duchy of Modena and Reggio (1680/71)
1609-0228 Frederick III of Denmark* King of Denmark and Norway - Haderslevhus Castle, Haderslev, Denmark (1670/60)
1609-0323 Johann Heinrich Schönfeld* German painter - Biberach an der Riss (1684/75)
1609-0415 Richard Winwood* landowner/politician/MP - Quainton, Buckinghamshire, England (1688/79)
1609-0506 Antonie Waterloo (B) Dutch landscape painter - Lille, Dutch Republic (1690/81)
1609-0629 Pierre-Paul Riquet* engineer/ canal-builder - Béziers, Hérault, France (1680/71)
1609-0728c Judith Leyster* painter - Haarlem, Dutch Republic (1660/50)
1609-0806 Richard Bennett* English Governor of the Colony of Virginia - Wiveliscombe, Somerset, England (1675/65)
1609-0821 Jean Rotrou* poet/tragedian - Dreux, Kingdom of France (1650/40)
1609-0903 Raymond Breton* Dominican missionary among the Caribbean Indians/linguist - Baune, France (1679/69)
1609-10xx John Clarke* physician/minister/co-founder of the Colony of Rhode Island - Westhorpe, Suffolk, England (1676/66)
1609-1005 Paul Fleming* physician/poet - Hartenstein, Saxony (1640/30)
1609-1125 Henrietta Maria* queen of England, Scotland and Ireland as wife of Charles I/U.S. state Maryland named after her - Palais du Louvre, Paris, France (1669/59)
1609-1126 Henry Dunster (B) scholar/first president of Harvard College - Bolholt, Lancashire, England (1659/49)
1609-1211 Alexander Cooper* Baroque miniature painter - London, England (1660)
Updated 21.2.2023-2
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