* 1621 – Cristofano Allori, Italian painter ( b. 1577 )

* 1621 – Guillaume du Vair, French writer ( b. 1556 )

* 1621 – Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Dutch painter ( d. 1674 )

He was the father of the painter Cristofano Allori ( 1577 – 1621 ).

* 1578 – Philip III of Spain ( d. 1621 )

* 1682 – Avvakum, Russian priest and writer ( b. 1621 )

Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder ( 18 January 1573 – 1621 ) was a still life painter of the Dutch Golden Age.

* 1621 – Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, English soldier, statesman, and dramatist ( d. 1679 )

(; 4 October 1542 – 17 September 1621 ) was an Italian Jesuit and a Cardinal of the Catholic Church.

Under Pope Paul V ( reigned 1605 – 1621 ), a major conflict arose between Venice and the Papacy.

* 1621 – Charles d ' Albert, Constable of France ( b. 1578 )

* 1621 – Saint Job of Maniava, Ukrainian Orthodox Saint ( b. 1550 )

* 1621 – Katarina Stenbock, Queen of Gustav I of Sweden ( b. 1535 )

* 1621 – Rebecca Nurse, English colonist executed during Salem witch trials ( d. 1692 )

* 1571 – Michael Praetorius, German composer ( d. 1621 )

* 1621 – Myles Standish is appointed as first commander of Plymouth colony.

* 1621 – Johannes Schefferus, Alsatian humanist ( d. 1679 )

* 1621 – Gregory XV becomes Pope, the last Pope elected by acclamation.

During the 17th century, the French fabulist Jean de La Fontaine ( 1621 – 1695 ) saw the soul of the fable in the moral — a rule of behavior.

* Jean de La Fontaine ( French, 1621 – 95 ).

* 1621-Second battle of Gibraltar on which a Spanish squadron crushed the VOC at the strait of Gibraltar – Battle of Gibraltar ( 1621 )

Galileo initially called his discovery the Cosmica Sidera (" Cosimo's stars "), in honour of Cosimo II de ' Medici ( 1590 – 1621 ).

In his reign ( 1598 – 1621 ) a ten year truce with the Dutch was overshadowed in 1618 by Spain's involvement in the European-wide Thirty Years ' War.

Philip III was succeeded in 1621 by his son Philip IV of Spain ( reigned 1621 – 1665 ).

Originally settled by the Nauset tribe, Eastham was the site where in 1621 a hunting expedition comprised from the crew of the sailing vessel Mayflower, which had stopped in Provincetown harbor on Cape Cod Bay after a rough crossing of the Atlantic Ocean, which led to the first encounter of the Pilgrims and the local Nauset Indians at First Encounter Beach.

** Mayflower passengers who died in the winter of 1620 – 1621

In 1621, William Bradford, one of the drafters of the Mayflower Compact, was selected as governor of the group after the original governor, John Carver, died during that spring.

Therefore, by the time of the first Thanksgiving in autumn 1621, there were only four women from the Mayflower left alive: Eleanor Billington, Elizabeth Hopkins, Mary Brewster, and Susanna Winslow.

The colony obtained land patents from the Council in 1621 and in 1630, but was governed independently from the Council under the Mayflower Compact.

Her first husband had been Pilgrim William White, who died in February 1621, with whom she had sons Resolved and Peregrine White, all of whom were Mayflower passengers.

* John Carver ( Mayflower Pilgrim ) ( c. 1576 – 1621 ), first governor of Plymouth Colony ( Massachusetts ) Mayflower Compact signer

By the spring of 1621, out of the 102 passengers on the Mayflower, only 52 survived.

* Alciato at Glasgow-Reproductions of 22 editions of Alciato's emblems from 1531 to 1621

He probably then studied etching with Antonio Tempesta in Florence, where he lived from 1612 to 1621.

The most extended treatment of melancholia comes from Robert Burton, whose The Anatomy of Melancholy ( 1621 ) treats the subject from both a literary and a medical perspective.

Born in Siena, a member of the illustrious banking family of Chigi and a great-nephew of Pope Paul V ( 1605 – 1621 ), he was privately tutored and eventually received doctorates of philosophy, law, and theology from the University of Siena.

Pope Gregory XV ( 9 January or 15 January 1554 – 8 July 1623 ), born Alessandro Ludovisi, was pope from 1621, succeeding Pope Paul V on 9 February 1621.

" Gregory secured for the Ludovisi two dukedoms, one for his brother Orazio, made a Nobile Romano and Duke of Fiano Romano, 1621, and the other, the Duchy of Zagarolo, purchased from the Colonna family by his nephew Ludovico Ludovisi in 1622.

King Gustavus Adolphus showed the university a keen interest and increased the professorial chairs from eight to thirteen in 1620, and again to seventeen in 1621.

Continuing from the reign of Elizabeth I of England, the creation of grants and patents reaches a new highwater mark from 1614 to 1621, during the reign of James I of England.

* Michael Praetorius ( 1571 – 1621 ) was Kapellmeister at Wolfenbüttel from 1604.

Pope Paul V ( 17 September 1552 – 28 January 1621 ), born Camillo Borghese, was Pope from 16 May 1605 until his death.

Richard Zouch also Richard Zouche ( c. 1590 – 1 March 1661 ) was an English judge and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1621 to 1624.

Tycho Brahe's improved instruments made precise observations of the skies ( 1576 – 1601 ), and from these Johannes Kepler ( 1621 ) deduced that planets orbited the sun in ellipses.

" The Nassau Cavalcade ", members of the house of Orange and Nassau on parade in 1621 from an engraving by Willem Delff.

* In the kingdom of Spain the title was awarded from the reign of Felipe IV ( 1621 – 65 ; Habsburg dynasty ) until 1846.

He afterwards went to Rome to seek a livelihood and then to Naples, where he apprenticed for two years, from 1619 to 1621, under Goffredo ( Gottfried ) Wals.

Against Maurice's advice, and despite his protests, Van Oldenbarnevelt decided to sign the Twelve Years ' Truce with Spain, which lasted from 1609 – 1621.

Books thought to contain such errors included some scientific works by leading astronomers such as Johannes Kepler's Epitome astronomiae Copernicianae, which was on the Index from 1621 to 1835.

His predecessor in the post was a relation of Jacques Benigne Bossuet, and it is thought that the transaction was the cause of La Bruyère's introduction to the great orator Bossuet, who from the date of his own preceptorship of the Dauphin, was a kind of agent-general for tutorships in the royal family, introduced him in 1684 to the household of the Louis, Prince of Condé ( 1621 – 1686 ), to whose grandson Louis as well as to that prince's girl-bride Mlle de Nantes, one of Louis XIV's natural children, La Bruyère became tutor.

Jan Karol Chodkiewicz ( c. 1560 – September 24, 1621 ) (, ) was a famous military commander of the Polish-Lithuanian army ( from 1601 Field Hetman of Lithuania, from 1605 Grand Hetman of Lithuania ) and one of the most prominent noblemen of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.