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1593 - Birth of Georges de la Tour French painter.

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1601 - Birth of Alonzo Cano Spanish painter/sculptor (Cathedral Granada).

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1604 - Birth of Johan IV composer/king of Portugal (1640-56).

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1610 - Birth of Hasegawa Tohaku Japanese painter.

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1628 - Massachusetts colony founded by Englishmen.

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1629 - Birth of Aleksei M Romanov first Romanov tsar of Russia.

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1635 - Pieter Christiaensz Bor Dutch historian, dies.

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1638 - Paul Moreelse Dutch painter/master builder, dies at about age 66.

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1644 - 200 members of Peking imperial family/court commit suicide.

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1644 - Si Sang last Ming-emperor of China, commits suicide.

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