1641

events

beginning of the Spanish-Portuguese war
René Descartes publishes the Meditationen over the bases of philosophy
Japan closes its ports; Beginning of the isolation of the country of the external world, to 1853 will persist

3. February: Christian Albrecht, prince bishop of Luebeck and duke of Schleswig Holstein Gottorf († 1695)
15. April: Süleyman II., 1687 to 1691 Sultan of the Osmani realm († 1691)
28. May: Johann soft pool of broadcasting corporations Valvasor, SlovenianTopograph and historian († 1693)
30. June: My hard of Schomberg, French-German-British general and army leader
30. July: Reinier De Graaf, Netherlands physician and researcher († 1673)
3. December: Konrad Samuel Schurzfleisch, German historian,Polyhistor and librarian († 1708)
Sabbatai Ben Josef, Jewish writer, scholar, Bibliograph and publisher

3. January: Jeremia of hearing skirt, sometimes also as Jeremiah Horrox designates, English astronomer (* 1619)
2. April: George von Braunschweig and Lueneburg Calenberg, Herzog of the Principalities of Calenberg and Goettingen (* 1582)
27. April: William of Rath, German soldier
28. April: Hans's George von Arnim Boitzenburg, field gentleman and politician in the dreissigjährigen war (* 1583)
10. May: Johan Banér, Swedish field marshal (* 1596)
12. May: Thomas Wentworth, Earl OF punishing Ford, English statesman (* 1593)
21. July: Thomas Mun, English buyer and economist (* 1571)
2. August: George of the Wense, German civil servant (* 1582)
10. November: Asaf Khan, Indian politician
19. November: Kardinalinfant Ferdinand, cardinal and field gentleman (* 1609)
7. December: Albrecht Friedrich of Barbyand Mühlingen, owner of the rule rose castle and Mühlingen, member of the fruitful society (* 1597)
9. December: Anthonis van Dyck, flämischer painter (* 1599)
13. December: Johanna Franziska of Chantal, medal foundress (* 1572)
30. December: Kaspar Ernst von Knoch, Sohn von Kaspar von Knoch and its wife Barabara of getting runner (* 1582)