July 11: "The Bear" predicts an end before 1683

Nicholas Raimarus, or Reimers, or Reymers - or, as people seemed to prefer calling him, "the bear" - was a self-taught scholar and a rival of Tycho Brahe who served as royal astronomer to the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolph II. He died in October 1600, with a book he had written only appearing six years later in Nuremberg: "Chronological, Certain, and Irrefutable Proof, from the Holy Scripture and Fathers, that the World Will Perish and the Last Day Will Come Within 77 Years".