In the year 1628, Oliver Cromwell makes his first appearance in the English Parliament (Mar 17), the Swedish 64-gun sailing ship Vasa sinks on her maiden voyage in Stockholm Harbor (Aug 10, The Collegiate School, the oldest surviving educational institution in North America, is established in New Amsterdam, the first black slaves arrive in Dutch Manhattan - and all these fine people were born:
1628-0112 Charles Perrault* author/folklorist - Paris, France (1703/75)
1628-0120 Henry Cromwell* politician/active in Ireland/son of Oliver Cromwell - Huntingdon, England (1674/46)
1628-0201 Jan Hackaert* painter - Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (1685/c.56)
1628-0302 Cornelis Speelman* Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies - Rotterdam, Dutch Republic (1684/55)
1628-0310 François Girardon* sculptor (statues in Versailles) - Troyes, France (1715/87)
1628-0310 Constantijn Huygens Jr.* statesman/poet/known for his work on scientific instruments - Den Haag, Dutch Republic (1697/69)
1628-0310 Marcello Malpighi* biologist/physician - Crevalcore, Papal States (1694/66)
1628-0422 Georg Matthäus Vischer* Austrian priest/topographer/ cartographer - Wenns, Tyrol (1696/68)
1628-0427 David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl (B) Swedish nobleman/portrait painter - Hamburg (1698/70)
1628-0508 Angelo Italia* Italian architect - Licata, Kingdom of Sicily (1700/71)
1628-0621 Alexander Parker* Quaker preacher/author - Chipping, Lancashire, England (1689/60)
1628-0711 Tokugawa Mitsukuni* 徳川 光圀 prominent daimyō/ grandson of Tokugawa Ieyasu - Japan (1701/72)
1628-0829 Jan Pieter Brueghel (B) Flemish painter - Antwerp (1664/c.36)
1628-0921 Barend Graat* painter - Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (1709/81)
1628-1021 Úrsula Micaela Morata* nun/mystic/writer - Cartagena, Spain (1703/74)
1628-1120 Matthias Sention Jr.* Connecticut settler/selectman/inn keeper - New Windsor, Berkshire, England (1728/100)
1628-1221 Samuel Capricornus* Czech composer/active in Stuttgart - Žerčice, Bohemia (1665/36)
1628-1226 John Page* merchant in a Virginia plantation - Sudbury, Middlesex, England (1692/63)
Updated 19.9.2021
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