Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1619
Birthdays
- February 24 - Charles Le Brun, French artist (d. 1690)
- March 6 - Cyrano de Bergerac, French soldier
- August 6 - Barbara Strozzi, Italian singer and composer (d. 1677)
- August 29 - Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of finance (d. 1683)
- November 7 - Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux, French writer (d. 1692)
- December 17 - Prince Rupert of the Rhine, commander in the English Civil War (d. 1682)
- December 28 - Antoine Furetière, French writer (d. 1688)
Deaths
- January 7 - Nicholas Hilliard, English painter (bc. 1547)
- February 3 - Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham
- February 9 - Lucilio Vanini, Italian philosopher (b. 1585)
- March 4 - Anne of Denmark, wife of James I (b. 1574)
- March 13 - Richard Burbage, English actor (b. 1567)
- March 20 - Mathias, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1557)
- April 10 - Thomas Jones, Archbishop of Dublin (b. c1550)
- May 13 - Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Dutch statesman (b. 1547)
- July 22 - Lawrence of Brindisi, Italian monk (b. 1559)
- August 30 - Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1535)
- October 14 - Samuel Daniel, English poet (b. 1562)
- November 13 - Ludovico Carracci, Italian painter (b. 1555)
Events
- May 13 - Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague after having been accused of treason.
- June 10 - Thirty Years' War: Battle of Záblatí, a turning point in the Bohemian Revolt.
- July 30 - In Jamestown, Virginia, the first representative assembly in the Americas, the House of Burgesses, convenes for the first time.
- August 1 - First African slaves arrive in Jamestown, Virginia.
- August 28 - Ferdinand II is elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
- November 10 - René Descartes has the dreams that inspire his Meditations on First Philosophy.
- December 4 - 38 colonists from Berkeley Parish in England disembark in Virginia and give thanks to God (this is considered by many to be the first Thanksgiving in the Americas).
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