1606
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Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century
Decades: 1550s 1560s 1570s 1580s 1590s - 1600s - 1610s 1620s 1630s 1640s 1650s
Years: 1601 1602 1603 1604 1605 - 1606 - 1607 1608 1609 1610 1611
[edit] Events
[edit] Births
- February 12 - John Winthrop, the Younger, Governor of Connecticut (died 1676)
- March 3 - Edmund Waller, English poet (died 1687)
- May 23 - Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish writer (d. 1682)
- May 25 - Saint Charles Garnier, Jesuit missionary (died 1649)
- June 6 - Pierre Corneille, French author (died 1684)
- June 16 - Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, Irish soldier (died 1675)
- June 19 - James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish statesman (died 1649)
- July 15 - Rembrandt, Dutch painter (died 1669)
- September 22 - Li Zicheng, Chinese rebel (died 1645)
- November 12 - Jeanne Mance, French settler in Montreal (died 1673)
- Richard Busby, English clergyman (died 1695)
- Leonard Calvert, governor of Baltimore (died 1647)
- Edmund Castell, English orientalist (died 1685)
- William Davenant, English poet and playwright (died 1668)
- Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester (died 1680)
- Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, Italian architect and painter (died 1680)
- Thomas Harrison, English puritan soldier and Fifth Monarchist (died 1660)
- Thomas Herbert, English traveller and historian (died 1682)
- John Robartes, 1st Earl of Radnor (died 1685)
- Pierre du Ryer, French dramatist (died 1658)
- Joachim von Sandrart, German art-historian and painter (died 1688)
- Tokugawa Tadanaga, Japanese nobleman (died 1633)
- Thomas Washbourne, English clergyman and poet (died 1687)
