Historical Events
- Sep 9 Sinking of the English ship Squirrel off the Azores with explorer and founder of Newfoundland, Humphrey Gilbert, on board
Famous Birthdays
- Sep 9 Girolamo Frescobaldi, Italian keyboard virtuoso (organist at St. Peter's Basilica, 1608-28 and 1634-43), and late Renaissance/early Baroque composer, born in Ferrara, Duchy of Ferrara (now Italy) (d. 1643)
Albrecht von Wallenstein (1583-1634)
Sep 24 Bohemian-German general and statesman (Thirty Years' War), born in Heřmanice, Kingdom of Bohemia in the Holy Roman Empire
- Sep 29 John VIII, the Younger, Count of Nassau-Siegen and field marshal, born in Dillenburg (d. 1638)
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