The Rialto Bridge in Venice, Italy
In the year 1591, Japanese tea-master Sen no Rikyū commits seppuku on the order of Toyotomi Hideyoshi (Apr 21), Ivan the Terrible’s son Tsarevich Dimitriis is found dead, perhaps murdered by his rival Boris Godunov who becomes tsar (May 15), the Portuguese invasion of Jaffna Kingdom in Sri Lanka begins (Oct 26), the Rialto Bridge in Venice is completed – and all these fine people were born:
1591-01x Valentin de Boulogne* painter - Coulommiers, Kingdom of France (1632/41)
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1591-0129 Franciscus Junius* pioneer of German philology – Heidelberg, Germany (1677)
1591-0202 Nicolaus Bleyer* German violinist/ composer - Stolzenau, Lower Saxony(1658/67)
1591-0213 Antonio Sabino* Italian priest/ composer - Turi, Apulia (1650/59)
1591-0221 Girard Desargues* mathematician/ engineer/one of the founders of projective geometry - Lyon, Kingdom of France (1661/69)
1591-0302 Willem Boreel* Dutch diplomat - Middelburg, Zeeland (1668/77)
1591-0303 Lucas de Wael* Flemish painter/art dealer/merchant - Antwerp (1661/70)
1591-0309 Johannes Chrysostomus vander Sterre* abbot/ ecclesiastical writer - ’s-Hertogenbosch, Dutch Republic (1652/60)
1591-0319 Dirck Hals* painter - Haarlem, Dutch Republic (1656/65)
1591-0411 Bartholomeus Strobel (B) Silesian painter active in Poland - Silesia (after 1650/c. 60)
1591-0425 Marcos de Torres y Rueda* bishop of Yucatan/interim viceroy of New Spain/to America at age 47 - Almazán, Spanish Empire (1649/57)
1591-0505 Frederick Achilles* first Duke of Württemberg-Neuenstadt - Holy Roman Empire (1631/40)
1591-0526 Olimpia Maidalchini* sister-in-law of Pope Innocent X/perceived by her contemporaries as having influence regarding papal appointments - Viterbo, Papal States (1657/66)
1591-0603 Julius Wilhelm Zincgref* German writer/ poet/editor - Heidelberg, Holy Roman Empire (1635/44)
1591-0616 Joseph Solomon Delmedigo* rabbi/ author/physician - Candia, Crete (1655/64)
1591-0704 Jonathan Rashleigh* shipping merchant/Sheriff of Cornwall - Menabilly, Cornwall, England (1675/83)
1591-0720 Anne Hutchinson (B) (b Marbury) midwife/spiritual adviser/ religious reformer in Massachusetts Bay Colony – Alford, Lincolnshire, England (1643/52)
1591-0812 Louise de Marillac* co-founder of the Daughters of Charity/venerated as a saint by the Catholic Church - Le Meux, Oise, Kingdom of France (1660/68)
1591-0824 Robert Herrick (B) lyric poet/cleric – Cheapside, London, England (1674/83)
1591-0923 Michael Lohr* German composer - Marienberg, Saxony (1654/62)
1591-0929 Michael de Sanctis* beatified monk - Vic, Catalonia, Spanish Empire (1625/33)
1591-1007 Pierre Le Muet* architect/ military engineer/writer - Dijon, Kingdom of France (1669/77)
1591-1019 Bengt Oxenstierna* Swedish diplomat - Frösvik, Swedish Empire (1643/51)
1591-1102 August Buchner* German philolog/poet/literaturetheoretician - Dresden, Saxony (1661/69)
1591-1120 Georg Albrecht von Brandenburg* nobleman - Berlin, Holy Roman Empire (1615/24)
1591-1129 Bernhard von Mallinckrodt* dean of cathedral/bibliophile – Ahlen, Germany (1664/72)
1591-1213 Theophilus Jacobäer* German pharmacist - Denkendorf (1659/67)
1591-1222 Tommaso Dingli* architect/ sculptor - Attard, Malta (1666/74)
1591-1230 Joseph Furttenbach* German architect/mathematician/diarist - Leutkirch, Holy Roman Empire (1667/75)
Updated 31.3.2022
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