A slightly more modern coffeehouse in Venice
In the year 1640, John Punch becomes the first official slave in the English colonies as he is sentenced to life in servitude (Jul 9), the first Finnish University opens in Turku/Åbo (Jul 15), 41 Spanish delegates to Japan are beheaded in Nagasaki (Aug 9), the first book to be printed in North America - the Bay Psalm Book - is published, the first known European coffeehouse opens in Venice - and all these fine people were born:
1640-xxxx Johan Ivarsson Argillander** bailiff/ governor of North Savolax/estate owner/father of Brita Johansdotter Paldanius - possibly Kuopio, Sweden-Finland (1692/) aby
1640-xxxx Robert Hubert* watchmaker/executed following his false confession of causing the Great Fire of London - Rouen, France (1666)
1640-xxxx Jaakko Sipinpoika Pietilä** father of Juho Jaakonpoika Pietilä - Pietilä farm, Ilmajoki, Sweden-Finland (1722/81-82)
1640-xxxx Anna Niileksentytär Seppälä** (b Riippi) mother of Juho Yrjänänpoika Hyövälti - Riippi, Teuva, Sweden-Finland (1697/52-61)
1640-xxxx Marne Staffanntytär Skotte** (b Tuessen Skotte) mother of Carl Esbjörnsson Skotte - Helsingborg, Denmark-Norway (1694/49-58)
1640-xxxx Elias Tillandz* (b Tillander) botanist/active in Finland - Rogberga, Swedish Empire (1693/c.53)
1640-0105 Paolo Lorenzani* composer/active in France - Rome, Papal States (1713/73)
1640-0117 Jonathan Singletary Dunham* early settler of Woodbridge Township, NJ/builder of the first gristmill in New Jersey/ancestor of Barack Obama - Newbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British America (1724/84)
1640-0123 Philipp von Hörnigk* German economist/civil servant - Frankfurt, Holy Roman Empire (1714/74)
1640-0131 Samuel Willard* clergyman - Concord, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British America (1707/67)
1640-0206 William Campion* politician/MP - England (1702/62)
1640-0217 Olivier Morel de La Durantaye* military officer in New France - Le Gâvre, Kingdom of France (1716/76)
1640-0220 Pierre II Mignard* painter/ architect - Avignon, Kingdom of France (1725/85)
1640-0224 Charles-René d’Hozier* historical commentator - Paris, Kingdom of France (1732/91)
1640-0229 Benjamin Keach* Baptist preacher - Buckinghamshire, England (1704/64)
1640-0307 Maria Theresa van Thielen* Flemish painter - Antwerp (1706/65)
1640-0309 Jacques d’Agar* portrait painter - Paris, Kingdom of France (1715/75)
1640-0318 Philippe de La Hire* painter/ mathematician/ astronomer - Paris, Kingdom of France (1718/78)
1640-0321 Ericus Tigerstedt* (b Fahlander) linguist/law professor/civil servant - Turku, Sweden-Finland (1697/57)
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1640-0401 Sigismund Casimir* Crown Prince of Poland - Kraków, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1647/7)
1640-0401 Georg Mohr* Danish mathematician - Copenhagen, Denmark-Norway (1697/57)
1640-0404 Gaspar Sanz (B) guitarist/ composer/music theorist - Calanda, Bajo Aragón, Crown of Aragon (1710/70)
1640-0407 Ludmilla Elisabeth of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt* German noblewoman/hymn poet - Rudolstadt, Thuringia (1672/31)
1640-0423 Wolfgang William Romer* military engineer - Den Haag, Dutch Republic (1713/72)
1640-0430 Nicolas Letourneux* preacher/ascetical writer - Rouen, Kingdom of France (1686/46)
1640-0502 Christian Donati* German logician - Wittenberg, Holy Roman Empire (1694/54)
1640-0531 Michael I* (b Michał Wiśniowiecki) King of Poland/ruler of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth - Biały Kamień, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1673/33)
1640-0603 Anders Pryss elder* bishop/descendant of the Prytz family from Sweden - Turku, Sweden-Finland (1689/48)
1640-0605 Pu Songling* 蒲松齡 writer - Zibo, Shandong, Qing China (1715/74)
1640-0609 Leopold I* Holy Roman Emperor - Vienna, Archduchy of Austria, Holy Roman Empire (1705/64)
1640-0616 Jacques Ozanam* mathematician - Sainte-Olive, Kingdom of France (1718/77)
1640-0621 Abraham Mignon* Dutch still life painter/active in Utrecht - Frankfurt, Holy Roman Empire (1679/38)
1640-0629 Elizabeth Stanhope* (b Butler) noblewoman - Kilkenny Castle, Ireland (1665/25)
1640-0710 Aphra Behn* playwright/prose writer/translator - Canterbury, Kent, England (1689/48)
1640-0719 Peter Müller* German lawyer - Nordhausen, Thuringia, Holy Roman Empire (1696/55)
1640-0720 Johannes Bohn* German physician - Leipzig, Holy Roman Empire (1718/78)
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1640-0802 Gérard Audran* engraver - Lyon, Kingdom of France (1703/62)
1640-0808 Amalia Katharina of Waldeck* German noblewoman/poet/ composer - Arolsen, Hesse (1697/56)
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1640-0907 Johann Jacob Schütz* German lawyer/ hymnwriter - Frankfurt, Hesse, Holy Roman Empire (1690/49)
1640-0923 Date Tsunamune* 伊達 綱宗 samurai of early Edo period/the 3rd daimyō of Sendai Domain - Japan (1711/70)
1640-0929 Antoine Coysevox* sculptor/best known for his sculpture in the gardens of Versailles - Lyon, Kingdom of France (1720/80)
1640-1020 Gérard Edelinck* Flemish-French engraver/print publisher - Antwerp (1707/66)
1640-1023 Elisabeth Pepys* (b Marchant de Saint Michel) wife of Samuel Pepys - Bideford, Devon, England (1669/29)
1640-1025 Johann Ludwig Hannemann* professor of medicine - Amsterdam, Republic of the United Netherlands (1724/84e)
1640-1028 Streynsham Master* colonial administrator/active in Madras, India - Landon, Kent, England (1724/83)
1640-1101 Francisco de Benavides* viceroy - Madrid, Spanish Empire (1716/75)
1640-1104 Carlo Mannelli* violinist/ castrato/composer- Rome, Papal States (1697/56)
1640-1114 Jonathan Corwin* merchant/politician/one of the judges in the Salem witch trials of 1692 - Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British America (1718/77)
1640-1115 Nicolaus Adam Strungk* (B) German violinist/composer - Braunschweig, Saxony, Holy Roman Empire (1700/59)
1640-1125 Juan Domingo de Zuñiga y Fonseca* Spanish Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands - Madrid, Spanish Empire (1716/75)
1640-1201 Ercole Antonio Mattioli* Italian politician/imprisoned by Louis XIV of France/associated with the Man in the Iron Mask - Valenza (1694/53)
1640-1206 Claude Fleury* priest/ jurist/ecclesiastical historian - Paris, Kingdom of France (1723/82)
1640-1213 Robert Plot* naturalist/ chemistry professor - Borden, Kent, England (1696/55)
1640-1220 Pierre Cureau de La Chambre* clergyman - Paris, Kingdom of France (1693/52)
1640-1222 Inaba Masamichi* 稲葉 正則 daimyō of Odawara Domain - Japan (1716/75)
1640-1225 Julius Micrander* theologian - Tierp, Swedish Empire (1702/61)
Updated 14.4.2023-2
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