In the year 1642, Ville-Marie (the future Montreal) is founded as a permanent settlement (May 17), Abel Tasman discovers the island Van Diemen’s Land, later renamed Tasmania (Nov 24), (), Rembrandt finishes his painting, The Night Watch, some 300,000 people die when the Chinese army breaks the dams of the Yellow River in order to break a siege by rebels, the First English Civil War goes on – and all these fine people were born:
1642-0102 Johannes van Haensbergen* painter - Gorinchem or Utrecht, Dutch Republic (1705/63)
1642-0126 Evert Collier* painter - Breda, Dutch Republic (1708/66)
1642-0203 Philip Aranda* Spanish Jesuit theologian/connected with the Inquisition of Aragon - Moneva, Kingdom of Aragon (1695/53)
1642-0218 Marie Champmeslé* stage actress - Rouen, Kingdom of France (1698/56)
1642-0302 Claudio Coello* painter/court painter for Charles II/with Portuguese parents - Madrid, Spain (1693/51)
1642-0304 Stanislaw Herakliusz Lubomirski* Polish nobleman/politician/patron of the arts - Niepołomice or Wiśnicz (1702/59)
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1642-0323 Hester Davenport* actress - England (1717/75)
1642-0415 Suleiman II* Sultan of the Ottoman Empire - Topkapi Palace, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (1691/49)
1642-0421 Simon de la Loubère* mathematician/ writer/diplomat – Toulouse, Kingdom of France (1729/86)
1642-0424 Samuel Columbus* writer/ linguist/philologist – Husby, Dalarna, Swedish Empire (1679/37)
1642-0505 James Tyrrell* political philosopher/historian/writer - London, England (1718/76)
1642-0618 Paul Tallement the Younger* clergyman/ scholar/writer - Paris, Kingdom of France (1712/70)
1642-0628 Jacob de Graeff* member of political family - Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (1690/47)
1642-0703 Joseph-François Hertel de la Fresnière (B) military officer of New France/captured as a teenager by the Iroquois - Trois-Rivières, New France (1722/79)
1642-0725 Louis I* Prince of Monaco/House of Grimaldi - Prince’s Palace, Monaco (1701/58)
1642-0811 Mary Carleton* (b Moders) con artist - Canterbury, England (1673/30)
1642-0812 Andrea Scacciati* painter/known mostly for his flower paintings - Florence, GD of Tuscany (1710/67)
1642-0901 Angelo Paoli* Roman Catholic priest/“father of the poor” /beatified - Casola in Lunigiana, GD of Tuscany (1720/77)
1642-0923 Giovanni Maria Bononcini* Italian violinist/composer/the father of a musical dynasty - Montecorone di Zocca, Emilia-Romagna (1678/36)
1642-1012 Abraham van Calraet* painter/ engraver - Dordrecht, Dutch Republic (1722/79)
1642-1025 Zheng Jing* 鄭經 warlord/Ming dynasty loyalist/ruler of the Kingdom of Tungning in Taiwan - China (1681/38)
1642-1105 Nils Gyldenstolpe* nobleman/diplomat/one of king Karl XI’s closest advisors - Turku, Sweden-Finland (1709/66)
1642-1130 Andrea Pozzo* painter/ architect/stage designer - Trento, Tyrol, Holy Roman Empire (1709/66)
1642-1206 Johann Christoph Bach* composer/ organist/cousin of JSB – Arnstadt, (1703/60)
1642-1230 François Roger de Gaignières* antiquary/ collector/genealogist - Entrains-sur-Nohain, Kingdom of France (1715/72)
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