* William II, Prince of Orange ( 1626 – 1650 )

* November 6 – William II, Prince of Orange ( b. 1626 )

* September 29 – William V, Duke of Bavaria ( d. 1626 )

Important composers included William Byrd ( 1543 – 1623 ), John Dowland ( 1563 – 1626 ) Thomas Campion ( 1567 – 1620 ), and Robert Johnson ( c. 1583 – c.

* William Cavendish, 1st Earl of Devonshire ( 1552 – 1626 ) was an English courtier

William II, Prince of Orange ( 27 May 1626 – 6 November 1650 ) was sovereign Prince of Orange and stadtholder of the United Provinces of the Netherlands from 14 March 1647 until his death three years later.

He married firstly, on 7 February 1626 at St Dunstan's Church, Stepney, Judith Duffell ( or Duffield ) of Rochester, Kent, by whom, besides other children, he had a son John and a daughter Frances ( who married William Goffe, another regicide ).

His second wife, whom he married between 12 March 1625 and 20 January 1626, was Susan ( née Rowe ) Halliday ( 1582-1646 ), daughter of Sir Henry Rowe, Lord Mayor of London, and his wife, Susan Kighley, and widow of William Halliday ( d. 1624 ), Alderman of London.

* William Price ( of Briton Ferry ), Welsh politician who sat in the House of Commons, 1614 – 1626

* William Cavendish, 1st Earl of Devonshire ( 1552 – 1626 )

* William II, Prince of Orange ( 1626 – 1650 )

William Rowley ( c. 1585 – February 1626 ) was an English Jacobean dramatist, best known for works written in collaboration with more successful writers.

* David Gunby, ‘ Rowley, William ( 1585 ?– 1626 )’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 5 June 2007

Sir William Monson ( 1569 – February 1643 ) was an English admiral and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1601 and 1626.

* William Murray, 2nd Earl of Tullibardine ( c. 1574 – 1626 ) ( eldest son of the 1st Earl ; resigned his titles in favour of younger brother in 1626 )

* 1626 / 27 William Stanley Robert Egginton

* Stadtholder William II ( 1626 – 1650 ), married Mary of England

She was the wife of William II, Prince of Orange and Count of Nassau ( 27 May 1626 – 6 November 1650 ) and the mother of King William III of England and Ireland, II of Scotland ( 14 November 1650 – 8 May 1702 ).

Justifying this view with the then-current doctrine of signatures, herbalist William Coles ( 1626 – 1662 ) wrote in the 17th century that

* William Petre, 4th Baron Petre ( 1626 – 1684 )

* William Wentworth, 2nd Earl of Strafford ( 1626 – 1695 ) ( attainder reversed 1662 )

The 17th-century botanist and herbalist William Coles ( 1626 – 1662 ), author of The Art of Simpling and Adam in Eden, stated that walnuts were good for curing head ailments because in his opinion, " they Have the perfect Signatures of the Head ".

* William Sandys, 6th Baron Sandys ( c. 1626 – 1668 )

On 16 and 17 January 1626 a conference was held by Charles's command, as the result of which the bishops of London ( George Montaigne ), Durham ( Richard Neile ), Winchester ( Lancelot Andrewes ), Rochester ( Buckeridge ), and St. David's ( Laud ) reported to George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham that Montagu had not gone further than the doctrine of the Church of England, or what was compatible with it.

* September – Arthur Lake, Bishop of Bath and Wells, one of the translators of the King James Bible ( d. 1626 )

Nicholas Felton, Bishop of Ely, nevertheless made him his chaplain, and gave him the living of St Mary, Swaffham Prior, which he held till 1626.

An excellent example of the original Scottish Baronial architecture, the great seven-storey castle was completed in 1626 by the Aberdonian merchant William Forbes, ancestor to the " Forbes-Sempill family " and brother of the Bishop of Aberdeen.

Richard Senhouse ( died 1626 ) was an English churchman, Bishop of Carlisle from 1624 to 1626.

He was invested as bishop in 1598, as a child, even though he had not been ordained as a priest and became Bishop of Strasbourg in 1607, a post which he held until 1626.

Arthur Lake ( September 1569 – 4 May 1626 ) was Bishop of Bath and Wells and a translator of the King James Version of The Bible.

There exists a stone memorial to Nathaniel Still ( d. 1626 ), son of Bishop Still.

Christian the Younger ( September 20, 1599 – June 16, 1626 ), Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and Bishop of Halberstadt, was a German Protestant military leader during the Thirty Years ' War.

Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St. Alban, Kt., KC ( 22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626 ) was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author.

While the date of his death is not known, " Dowland's last payment from the court was on 20 January 1626, and he was buried at St Ann's, Blackfriars, London, on 20 February 1626.

Following his death in 1626 in Southwark, he was mourned alike by leaders in Church and state, and buried by the high altar in St Mary Overie ( now Southwark Cathedral, then in the Diocese of Winchester ).

* 1626 – St. Peter's Basilica is consecrated.

He held a series of positions as organist and maestro di cappella ( choirmaster ) between 1607 and 1626, when he succeeded Vincenzo Ugolini as maestro of the Cappella Giulia's choir in St. Peter's Basilica.

After holding a school mastership at Suffolk and two curacies ( the second as curate of All-hallows, Bread Street ), he was made rector of St Martin's Ongar in London, and of Sandon, in Essex, in 1626.

He married Lenox ( d. 1639 ), daughter of Sir John Rodes of Barlborough, Derbyshire, and his third wife Catherine, daughter of Marmaduke Constable of Holderness on 12 September 1626, at St Michael-le-Belfry in York.

# Renée ( 1585 – 13 June 1626, Reims ), Abbess of St. Pierre

Historical buildings in and around the town include the pentagonal Pillau Citadel, founded by the Swedes in 1626, completed by the Prussians in 1670, renovated in 1870 and currently holding a naval museum ; the ruins of the 13th-century Lochstadt Castle ; a maze of 19th-century naval fortifications ; the Naval Cathedral of St. George ( 1866 ); the 32-metre Expressionist observation tower ( 1932 ); the Gothic Revival building of the Baltic Fleet Museum ( 1903 ); and an elegant lighthouse, dating from 1813-1816.

* Francis Bacon, 1st Baron Verulam ( 1561 – 1626 ) ( became Viscount St Albans in 1621 )

Dudd married Eleanor Heaton, ( 1606 – 1675 ), on 12 October 1626, at St. Helen's Church, Worcester.

Giovanni Evangelista e Petronio dei Bolognesi, 1626 – 29, Santa Maria della Vittoria, 1629 – 30, and St. Peter's, 1625 – 30 ).

By 1611 St. Mary's had a clock, for which there are records of repairs in 1617, 1621, 1626 and 1631.

While parliament was prorogued in 1626, he was involved in the committal of Sir Robert Howard by the high commission, and when he was re-elected MP for St Germans in 1626, an attempt was made to exclude him because of the case.

In the Lesser Antilles they managed to establish a foothold following the colonization of St Kitts in 1624 and Barbados in 1626, and when the Sugar Revolution took off in the mid-seventeenth century, they brought in thousands of African slaves to work the fields and mills.

As a young man he married by about 1626, and had two sons baptized at St. Botolph's Church in Boston, Lincolnshire, but both died in infancy and were buried at the same church.

Less than two weeks after Bacon's death from pneumonia on 9 April 1626, Alice Barnham Bacon married Mr. John Underhill, at the Church of St Martin in the Fields, London, 20 April 1626.

In 1626 he was further granted " le fief de la riviere, St Charles " in recognition of his meritorious service.