17th-century deaths from plague (disease)

Mexican writer, philosopher, playwright and poet

English physician, physicist and natural philosopher (1544-1603)

Italian Baroque painter (1593-1651)

Elector Palatine (1610–23), and King of Bohemia (1619–20), the Winter King; died 1632

English Jacobean playwright (1579–1625)

German poet

French writer

English politician (1611-1651)

English linguist and lexicographer

Roman Catholic archbishop

English writer and dramatist (1557–1625)

Austrian composer and musician (1620–1680)

Frisian poet and author

French canon regular

Italian painter (1598-1630)

Italian composer

French dramatist

Italian opera librettist

First wife of painter Peter Paul Rubens

Italian academic and philosopher (1550–1631)

Italian composer, conductor and violinist

English pirate

Savoyard Royal and Viceroy of Sicily (1588-1624)

Dutch historian and noble (1545-1604)

Dutch admiral (1563–1621)

Italian architect

Danish-German mercenary

Tuscan prince

Jesuit priest, writer, military chaplain

Italian composer

Early Colonial American alchemist

German composer (1593-1635)

Czech baroque writer, poet, and missionary

Baltic German clergyman and Estonian language enthusiast (1600–1657)

Italian painter (1578–1630)

Italian poet and writer (1597-1630)

British duchess and marchioness

Italian painter (1586-1630)

Swedish general in the Thirty Years' War

English priest

Swedish noble (1608-1629)

Italian composer

Italian painter, printmaker, and draftsman, 1629-1657 (1629–1657)

Genoese painter (1588-1657)