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What Happened in January 1567

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Famous Birthdays

  • Jan 4 Franciscus Aguilon, Belgian Jesuit physicist, mathematician and architect (book on Optics "Opticorum Libri Sex), born in Brussels (d. 1617)
Born in 1567

Famous Deaths

  • Jan 8 Jacob Vaet, Flemish composer/royal chaplain master, dies at about 37
  • Jan 23 Jiajing, 12th Emperor of Ming Dynasty of China, dies at 59
  • Jan 26 Nicholas Wotton, English diplomat, arranged marriage of Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves, dies at about 70

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