1693) Deaths January 2 – Zhang Xianzhong, Chinese rebel (b. 1606) January 6 – Francisco Ximénez de Urrea, Spanish historian (b. 1589) January 14 – François L’Anglois, French artist (b. 1589) January 29 – Francis Meres, English writer (b. 1565) February 6 – Juan Alfonso Enríquez de Cabrera, Viceroy of Sicily and Viceroy of Naples (b. 1599) February 17 – Johann Heermann, German poet, hymn-writer (b. 1585) March 2 – Johanna Elisabeth of Nassau-Hadamar, by marriage Princess of Anhalt-Harzgerode (b. 1619) March 14 – Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (b. 1584) March 29 – Charles Butler, English beekeeper and philologist (b. 1560) April 20 – Sir John Hobart, 2nd Baronet, English politician (b. 1593) May 21 – Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, Dutch poet and historian (b. 1581) June 2 – Christian, Prince-Elect of Denmark (b. 1603) June 9 – Leonard Calvert, Colonial governor of Maryland (b. 1606) June 12 – Thomas Farnaby, English grammarian (b. c. 1575) July 1 – Francis Walsingham, English Jesuit (b. 1577) July 7 – Thomas Hooker, Connecticut colonist (b. 1586) July 12 – Francesco Maria Farnese, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1619) July 16 – Masaniello, Italian rebel (b. 1622) August 24 – Nicholas Stone, English sculptor and architect (b. 1586) August 27 – Pietro Novelli, Italian painter (b. 1603) September 9 – Sir Edward Osborne, 1st Baronet, English politician (b. 1596) September 18 – Pietro Carrera, Italian chess player (b. 1573) October 8 – Christian Sørensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer (b. 1562) October 9 – Anselm Casimir Wambold von Umstadt, Archbishop of Mainz (b. 1582) October 15 – Bartholda van Swieten, Dutch diplomat (b. 1566) October 25 – Evangelista Torricelli, Italian mathematician and physicist (b. 1608) November 5 – Vincentio Reinieri, Italian mathematician and astronomer (b. 1606) November 25 – George Albert I, Count of Erbach-Schönberg (b. 1597) November 30 Bonaventura Cavalieri, Italian mathematician (b. 1598) Giovanni Lanfranco, Italian painter (b. 1582) December 1 – Joseph Gaultier de la Vallette, French astronomer (b. 1564) References