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What Happened in February 1595

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Famous Birthdays

  • Feb 2 Jacob van Campen, Dutch painter and architect (New Church, Amsterdam), born in Haarlem (d. 1657)
  • Feb 24 Matthias C. Sarbiewski [Sarbievius], Polish Jesuit and poet (d. 1640)
Born in 1595

Famous Deaths

  • Feb 12 Archduke Ernest of Austria, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands (b. 1553)
  • Feb 20 Ernst, Archduke of Austria (son of Maximilian II Holy Roman Emperor), dies at 41
  • Feb 21 Robert Southwell, English Roman Catholic priest and Jesuit and poet, hung drawing, and quartered for treason at 33 (canonized 1970)

Famous People by their Chinese Zodiac Animal

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