deaths
April 4, 1609
Carolus Clusius, Flemish botanist, mycologist, and academic (born 1526)
Carolus Clusius
Charles de l'Écluse, L'Escluse, or Carolus Clusius, seigneur de Watènes, was an Artois doctor and pioneering botanist, perhaps the most influential of all 16th-century scientific horticulturists.