* 1555 – Edward Kelley, English spirit medium ( d. 1597 )

* 1597 – Roger Twysden, English historian and politician ( d. 1672 )

* Alfonso II d ' Este ( 1533 – 1597 ), duke of Ferrara from 1559 to 1597

* 1537 – Ashikaga Yoshiaki, Japanese shogun ( d. 1597 )

* 1640 – John Francis Regis, French saint ( b. 1597 )

* 1597 – Petrus Canisius, Dutch Jesuit ( b. 1521 )

* 1653 – Luigi de Rossi, Italian composer ( b. 1597 )

* 1597 – A group of early Japanese Christians are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society.

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* 1597 – The first Dutch voyage to the East Indies reaches Bantam ( on Java ).

* 1597 – Elias Ammerbach, German organist ( b. 1530 )

* 1662 – Prince Honoré II of Monaco ( b. 1597 )

# John ( 1597 – 1627 ), Bishop of Havelberg

The French Baroque school is exemplified by composers such as Ennemond Gaultier ( 1575 – 1651 ), Denis Gaultier ( 1597 / 1603 – 1672 ), François Dufaut ( before 1604 – before 1672 ) and many others.

* 1597 – Jean-Charles de la Faille, Flemish mathematician ( d. 1652 )

* 1521 – Peter Canisius, Dutch priest ( d. 1597 )

* 1540 – Maharana Pratap, Hindu ruler of Mewar ( d. 1597 )

* 1648 – Vincent Voiture, French poet ( b. 1597 )

* 1597 – Jérôme le Royer de la Dauversière, French layman, founder of the Société Notre-Dame de Montréal ( d. 1659 )

* 1676 – Bernardino de Rebolledo, Spanish poet, soldier and diplomat ( b. 1597 )

* 1597 – Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate, Electress of Bavaria ( d. 1660 )

* May 26 – Vincent Voiture, French poet ( b. 1597 )

* Vincent Voiture 1597 – 1648, poet and prose writer

Vincent Voiture ( 24 February 1597 – 26 May 1648 ), French poet, was the son of a rich merchant of Amiens.

* Vincent Voiture ( 1597 – 1648 )

* Vincent Voiture ( 1597 – 1648 )

* May 26-Vincent Voiture, poet ( born 1597 )

The English word " amputation " was first applied to surgery in the 17th century, possibly first in Peter Lowe's A discourse of the Whole Art of Chirurgerie ( published in either 1597 or 1612 ); his work was derived from 16th century French texts and early English writers also used the words " extirpation " ( 16th century French texts tended to use extirper ), " disarticulation ", and " dismemberment " ( from the Old French desmembrer and a more common term before the 17th century for limb loss or removal ), or simply " cutting ", but by the end of the 17th century " amputation " had come to dominate as the accepted medical term.

* December 30 – John Francis Regis, French saint ( b. 1597 )

* March 8 – Charles Sorel, sieur de Souvigny, French writer ( b. 1597 )

Denis Gaultier ( Gautier, Gaulthier ; also known as Gaultier le jeune and Gaultier de Paris ) ( 1597 or 1602 / 3 – 1672 ) was a French lutenist and composer.

Following the Spanish capture of Amiens in March 1597 the French crown laid siege until its surrender in September.

Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac ( 31 May 1597 – 18 February 1654 ) was a French author, best known for his epistolary essays, which were widely circulated and read in his day.

He raised a company of men following a call to arms by Queen Elizabeth, and served in the army of King Henry IV of France during the French Wars of Religion, and was present at the 1597 Siege of Amiens.

His mother, Winifred Barnaby ( 1569-April 12, 1597 ), is a descendant of English and French Royalty.

In 1597, after some years during which French pirates, led by Jacques Riffault, established regular commercial activities with the native population, the ninth Portuguese Governor-General of Brazil, Francisco de Sousa, ordered the expulsion of the buccaneers.

* Denis Gaultier ( 1597 or 1602 / 3 – 1672 ), French lutenist and composer

They were set by the French lutenist Charles Tessier and published in London in 1597.

Charles Racquet ( 1597 – 1664 ) was a French organist and composer, best known for his monumental organ Fantaisie.

Timoléon d ' Espinay ( 1580 – 1644 ), French soldier, was the eldest of the four sons of François d ' Espinay, seigneur de Saint Luc ( 1554 – 1597 ), and was himself marquis de Saint Luc.

John Francis Regis, also known as Saint Jean-François Régis, Saint François Régis, and St. Regis, ( 31 January 1597 – 30 December 1640 ), was a French priest of the Society of Jesus, recognized as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church.