In the year 1622, in the Gregorian calendar, January 1 is declared as the first day of the year, instead of March 25 (Jan 1), Jamestown massacre in Virginia begins the_ American Indian Wars_ (Mar 22), Portuguese forces successfully defend Macau from the Dutch fleet, keeping a Portuguese foothold in the Far East (Jun 24), Armand Jean du Plessis becomes Cardinal Richelieu (Sep 5), the first Huguenot rebellion ends (Oct 18) – and all these fine people were born:
1622-xxxx Antti Keksi* soldier/ farmer/folklorist - Ylitornio, Sweden-Finland (1705/c. 83)
1622-0115 Molière* (b Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) playwright/ actor/poet – Paris, Kingdom of France (1673/51)
1622-0123 Abraham Diepraam* painter - Rotterdam, Spanish Netherlands (1670/48)
1622-0128 Adrien Auzout* astronomer/ telescope maker - Rouen, Kingdom of France (1691/69)
1622-0215 Adam Pynacker* Dutch painter - Schiedam (1673/51)
1622-0224 Johannes Clauberg* German theologian/philosopher - Solingen (1665/42)
1622-0227 Carel Fabritius (B) painter/ pupil of Rembrandt/died at the explosion of the Delft gunpowder magazine – Middenbeemster, Dutch Republic (1654/32)
1622-0310 Johann Rahn* mathematician/ credited with the first use of the division sign (÷) - Töss, Switzerland (1676/54)
1622-0328 Ermes di Colloredo* Italian count/ writer - Colloredo di Monte Albano, Friaul (1692/70)
1622-0405 Vincenzo Viviani* mathematician/ scientist - Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany (1703/81)
1622-0410 Samuel Wilbur Jr. (B) colonial settler of Rhode Island - Sible Hedingham, Essex, England (1678-1679)
1622-0411 Jan van Vliet* Dutch lawyer/ linguist - Middelburch (1666/43)
1622-0504 Juan de Valdés Leal* painter/ etcher - Seville, Spanish Empire (1690/68)
1622-0509 Jean Pecquet* medical scientist - Dieppe, Kingdom of France (1674/51)
1622-0522 Louis de Buade de Frontenac* soldier/ courtier/Governor General of New France - Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Kingdom of France (1698/76)
1622-0606 Claude-Jean Allouez* Jesuit missionary/explorer of North America - Saint-Didier-en-Velay, Kingdom of France (1689/67)
1622-0626 Valdemar Christian of Schleswig-Holstein* son of king Christian IV of Denmark - Frederiksborg Castle, Denmark-Norway (1656/33)
1622-0702 René-François Walter de Sluse* churchman/ mathematician - Visé, Spanish Netherlands (1685/62)
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1622-0726 Christian Augustus* Count Palatine of Sulzbach - Sulzbach, Bavaria (1708/85)
1622-0728 George Montagu* politician - Westminster, England (1681/58)
1622-0806 Tjerk Hiddes de Vries* Dutch admiral/naval hero - Sexbierum, Friesland (1666/)
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1622-0824 Samuel Lincoln* American colonial ancestor of Abraham Lincoln – Hingham, Norfolk, England (1690/67)
1622-0827 Jakob Thomasius* academic philosopher/jurist - Leipzig, Electorate of Saxony (1684/62)
1622-0908 Knut Kurck* Swedish civil servant/governor - Laukko Manor, Sweden-Finland (1690/67)
1622-0921 Yamaga Sokō* 山鹿 素行 philosopher/ military strategist under the Tokugawa shogunate - Aizuwakamatsu, Japan (1685/63)
1622-0924 Georg Händel* German barber surgeon/father of the composer Georg Frideric Handel - Halle, Archbishopric of Magdeburg (1697/74)
1622-0930 Johann Sebastiani* German composer - Weimar (1683/c.60)
1622-1013 Ralph Delaval* nobleman/ landowner/politician - Northumberland, England (1691/68)
1622-1015 Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie* Swedish statesman/military man - Reval, Estonia, Swedish Empire (1686/63)
1622-1108 Charles X Gustav of Sweden* King of Sweden - Nyköping Castle, Swedish Empire (1660/37)
1622-1113 Krister Horn* governor/military leader - Vikhus, Swedish Empire (1692/69)
1622-1130 Thomas van Apshoven* Flemish painter - Antwerp (1664-1667)
1622-1216 Cort Adeler* seaman/active in the Danish and Dutch navies - Brevik, Norway (1675/52)
1622-1222 Emanuel Murant* painter - Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (c.1700)
1622-1227 Teofil Rutka* Polish Jesuit philosopher/ theologian/missionary - Kiev Voivodeship (1700/77)
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