Feb 10 The Académie française forms in Paris (by Cardinal Richelieu)
Famous Birthdays
Feb 1 Marquard Gude, German archaeologist and classical scholar famous for his collection of Greek and Latin inscriptions, born in Rendsburg, Holstein (d. 1689)
Feb 18 Johan Göransson Gyllenstierna, Swedish statesman (d. 1680)
Feb 25 Walraad, the Elder, Dutch fieldmarshall/earl of Nassau-Usingen