1645 (MDCXLV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1645th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 645th year of the 2nd millennium, the 45th year of the 17th century, and the 6th year of the 1640s decade. As of the start of 1645, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events

Births

Deaths

• January 2 – Agnes of Limburg-Styrum, Abbess of Elten, Vreden, Borghorst and Freckenhorst (b. 1563)
• January 10 – William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1573)^[7]
• January 11 – Henry Gage, Royalist officer in the English Civil War (b. 1597)
• January 17 – Pál Esterházy, Hungarian noble (b. 1587)
• January 24 – Giovanni Branca, Italian architect and engineer (b. 1571)
• January 30 – Mary Ward, English Roman Catholic Religious Sister and Venerable (b. 1585)
• January 31 – Hans Ulrik Gyldenløve, illegitimate son of King Christian IV of Denmark and his mistress (b. 1615)
• February 9 – Mutio Vitelleschi, Italian Jesuit Superior General (b. 1563)
• February 10 – Dorothea Sophia, Abbess of Quedlinburg Abbey (b. 1587)
• February 14 – François de La Rochefoucauld, French Catholic cardinal (b. 1558)
• February 16 – Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Spanish general (b. 1585)
• February 24 – Philip VII, Count of Waldeck-Wildungen (1638–1645) (b. 1613)
• March 4 – Matthias Hoe von Hoenegg, German theologian (b. 1580)
• March 5 – Johann von Götzen, Imperial General
• March 24 – Sir Thomas Aston, 1st Baronet, English politician (b. 1600)
• April 6 – William Burton, British antiquarian (b. 1575)
• April 16 – Tobias Hume, English composer (b. 1559)
• April 17 – Daniel Featley, English theologian and controversialist (b. 1582)
• April 29 – Maximilian of Liechtenstein, Austrian nobleman and Imperial General (b. 1578)
• May 20 – Shi Kefa, Chinese Ming Dynasty official (b. 1601)
• May 21 – Crown Prince Sohyeon, Korean crown prince (b. 1612)
• May 26 – Mariana de Jesús de Paredes, Ecuadorian Roman Catholic hermit and saint (b. 1618)
• May 29 – Adam Christian Agricola, German Evangelical preacher (b. 1593)
• June 13 – Miyamoto Musashi, Japanese swordsman (b. c. 1584)
• July 7 – Georg Friedrich of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein-Weikersheim, officer and amateur poet (b. 1569)
• July 13 – Marie de Gournay, French writer (b. 1565)
• July 17 – Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset, Scottish politician (b. c. 1590)
• July 22 – Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares, Spanish statesman (b. 1587)
• July 23 – Tsar Michael I of Russia (b. 1596)
• August 6 – Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex, English merchant (b. 1575)
• August 18 – Eudoxia Streshneva, Tsaritsa of Russia (b. 1608)
• August 28 – Hugo Grotius, Dutch philosopher and writer (b. 1583)^[8]
• August 31 – Francesco Bracciolini, Italian poet (b. 1566)
• September 8 – Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish writer (b. 1580)^[9]
• September 11 – Nikolaus, Count Esterházy, Hungarian noble (b. 1583)
• September 14 – Sir Richard Grosvenor, 1st Baronet, English politician (b. 1585)
• September 16 – John Macias, Spanish Dominican friar and saint (b. 1585)
• October 2 – Francesco Cennini de' Salamandri, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1566)
• November 21 – William Helyar, English chaplain (b. 1559)
• December 7 – Philip Dietrich, Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg (1640–1645) (b. 1614)
• December 12 – Giovanni Bernardino Azzolini or Mazzolini or Asoleni, Italian painter (b. c. 1572)
• December 17 – Nur Jahan, empress consort of the Mughal Empire (b. 1577)
• December 28 – Gaspar de Borja y Velasco, Spanish Catholic cardinal (b. 1580)
• date unknown
  • Françoise-Marie Jacquelin, Acadian heroine (b. 1621)
  • William Lithgow, Scottish traveller (b. c. 1585)
  • Sultan Agung, third Sultan of Mataram (b. 1593)

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