Sep 3 Pieter Boel, Flemish painter and etcher, dies Sep 8 Amalia, countess of Solms-Braunfels and wife of Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, dies at 73 Sep 18 Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine (1624-75), dies at 71 Sep 23 Valentin Conrart, founder of the Académie Française (b. 1603) 1674 Famous Deaths by Year 1676