Jul 15 Girolamo Rainaldi, Italian architect (b. 1570) Jul 28 Cyrano de Bergerac, French dramatist/novelist, dies at 36 in Paris Jul 28 Suzuki Shosan, Samurai/monk/propagator of Zen Buddhism, dies at 76 Jul 30 Sigmund Theophil Staden, German composer, dies at 47 1654 Famous Deaths by Year 1656