page_title: 1629
section_title: Deaths
hierarchical_section_title: 1629 / Deaths
caption_attribution_description: Portrait of Jan Pieterszoon Coen (1587-1629)
context_page_description: 1629 was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1629th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 629th year of the 2nd millennium, the 29th year of the 17th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1620s decade. As of the start of 1629, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: January 7 – Henry Frederick, Hereditary Prince of the Palatinate (b. 1614)
  January 13 – Sri Chand, founder of the ascetic sect of Udasi (b. 1494)
  January 19 – Abbas the Great, 5th Safavid Shāh of Persia (b. 1571)
  January 23 – André Schott, Brabantian Jesuit priest, academic and linguist (b. 1552)
  January 27 – Hieronymus Praetorius, German composer (b. 1560)
  March 16 – Countess Emilia of Nassau, Dutch noble, daughter of William the Silent (b. 1559)
  March 23 – Francis Fane, 1st Earl of Westmorland, English politician (b. c. 1580)
  March 25 – John Guy, English merchant venturer and first Governor of Newfoundland (b. 1568)
  March 26 – Agnes of Brandenburg, Duchess of Pomerania, later Duchess of Saxe-Lauenburg (b. 1584)
  March 27 – George Carew, 1st Earl of Totnes, English noble, general and administrator (b. 1555)
  March 29 – Jacob de Gheyn II, Dutch painter and engraver (b. c. 1585)
  April 8 – Willem Teellinck, Dutch pastor (b. 1579)
  April 17 – Catherine de' Medici, Governor of Siena, Italian princess (b. 1593)
  May 5 – Szymon Szymonowic, Polish writer (b. 1558)
  May 19 – Petrus Ryff, Swiss scientist (b. 1552)
  May 30 – Thomas Schreiber, German innkeeper and alleged witch (b. c. 1598)
  June 18 – Piet Pieterszoon Hein, Dutch naval officer (b. 1577)
  July 6 – Georg Friedrich von Greiffenklau, Archbishop of Mainz (b. 1573)
  July 13 – Caspar Bartholin the Elder, Swedish physician and theologian (b. 1585)
  August 18 – Vendela Skytte, Swedish noble (b. 1608)
  August 29 – Pietro Bernini, Italian sculptor (b. 1562)
  September 11 – Herman Hugo, Dutch Jesuit priest, writer, military chaplain (b. 1588)
  September 13 – Johannes Buxtorf, German Calvinist theologian (b. 1564)
  September 21 – Jan Pieterszoon Coen, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1587)
  September 22 – Robert Radclyffe, 5th Earl of Sussex, English noble (b. 1573)
  October 2
  Pierre de Bérulle, French cardinal and statesman (b. 1575)
  Antonio Cifra, Italian composer (b. 1584)
  October 3 – Giorgi Saakadze, Georgian military commander (b. 1570)
  October 5 – Heribert Rosweyde, Dutch Jesuit hagiographer (b. 1569)
  October 13 – Petrus Bertius, Flemish theologian and scientist (b. 1565)
  November – Hendrick ter Brugghen, Dutch painter (b. c. 1558)
  November 9 – Sixtinus Amama, Dutch Reformed theologian and orientalist (b. 1593)
  December 13 – Mikołaj Oleśnicki the younger, Polish noble (b. 1558)
  December 23 – Giovanni I Cornaro, Doge of Venice (b. 1551)
  date unknown – Antonio Vassilacchi ("Il Aliense"), Greek Venetian painter (b. 1556)
  probable – Sigismondo d'India, Italian composer (b. c. 1582)
caption: Jan Pieterszoon Coen
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