St. Laurence’s gate in Drogheda, Ireland (photo by [Kieran Campbell](http://By Kieran Campbell, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=13762085))
King Charles I is is beheaded for high treason in London (Jan 30), an act declaring England to be a Commonwealth is passed (May 19), Tsar Alexis throws English merchants out of Moscow (Jun 1), Oliver Cromwell lands in Dublin, and begins the bloody Cromwellian conquest of Ireland (Aug 15) - and all these fine people were born:
1649-0112 Jacques Carrey* painter/draughtsman - Troyes, France (1726/77)
1649-0211 William Carstares* minister of the Church of Scotland/politician – Cathcart, Scotland (1715/66)
1649-0219 Daniel Erich* organist/composer - Lübeck, Germany (1712/63)
1649-0303 John Floyer* physician/author - Hints, Staffordshire, England (1734/84)
1649-0405 Elihu Yale* merchant/slave trader/benefactor of Yale University - Boston, Colony of Massachusetts, British America (1721/72)
1649-0503 Johann Valentin Meder (B) German organist/singer/ composer - Wasungen, Thuringia (1719/70)
1649-0613 Adrien Baillet* scholar/ biographer/critic - La Neuville-en-Hez, France (1706/56)
1649-0614 Johannes Fatio* surgeon active in Basel/performed the first successful separation of conjoined twins - Basel, Old Swiss Confederacy (1691/42)
1649-0704 William Lodge* engraver/printmaker - Yorkshire, England (1689/40)
1649-0803 Diego de Salinas* the last Spanish Governor of Gibraltar - Madrid, Spain (1720/71)
1649-0816 Barent van Kalraet* Dutch painter - Dordrecht (1737/87)
1649-0914 Magdalena Stenbock* politically active countess/salon holder – Sweden (1727/77)
1649-1006 Juana Rangel de Cuéllar* founder of the Colombian city of Cúcuta - Pamplona, Spain (1736/76)
1649-1024 Samuel Gyldenstolpe* (b Michaelis) librarian/professor of philosophy - Turku, Sweden-Finland (1692/42)
1649-1125 John Holwell* astrologer/mathematician – Clerkenwell, England (1686?/c.36)
1649-1202 Jean-Baptiste Corneille* painter/etcher/engraver - Paris, France (1695/45)
Updated 28.3.2022-1
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