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Year 1624 (MDCXXIV) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Thursday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).
Events of 1624
January - June
July - December
Undated
Births
- January 3 - William Tucker, the first black child born in America
- January 9 - Meish“, empress of Japan (d. 1696)
- January 15 - Rombout Verhulst, Dutch sculptor (d. 1698)
- January 31 - Arnold Geulincx, Flemish philosopher (d. 1669)
- June 15 - Hiob Ludolf, German orientalist (d. 1704)
- July - George Fox, English founder of the Quakers (d. 1691)
- August 22 - Jean Renaud de Segrais, French writer (d. 1701)
- August 25 - Père François de La Chaise, French churchman (d. 1709)
- September 10 - Thomas Sydenham, English physician (d. 1689)
- October 30 - Paul Pellisson, French author (d. 1693)
- date unknown
- See also Category:1624 births.
Deaths
- February 12 - George Heriot, Scottish goldsmith and philanthropist (b. 1563)
- February 13 - Stephen Gosson, English satirist (b. 1554)
- February 17 - Juan de Mariana, Spanish historian (b. 1536)
- July - Alonso Fajardo y Tenza, governor of the Philippines
- November 10 - Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, English patron of the theater (b. 1573)
- November 17 - Jakob Böhme, German mystic (b. 1575)
- December 5 - Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist (b. 1560)
- December 14 - Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, English statesman (b. 1536)
- December 26 - Simon Marius, German astronomer (b. 1573)
- date unknown
- See also Category:1624 deaths.
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