| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 10 |
Isaac Jogues, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1646) |
Jan 31 |
James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby |
Feb 9 |
Abraham Megerle, composer |
Mar 1 |
Giovanni Francesco Milanta, composer |
Mar 8 |
Johann Rist, composer |
Mar 12 |
Paul Gerhardt, German hymnist (d. 1676) |
Mar 24 |
Michiel A de Ruyter, Dutch rear admiral (St Vincent, Dune) |
Jul 13 |
Václav Hollar, Bohemian-born artist (d. 1677) |
Aug 5 |
Philipp Friedrich Boddecker, composer |
Aug 17 |
Pierre de Fermat, mathematician who needed wider margins (Fermat's Last Theorem) [or 1608] |
Oct 4 |
Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla, Span playwright (Del Rey Abajo Ninguno) |
Oct 24 |
John Lievensz, painter/etcher/wood carver |
Nov 1 |
Georg Philipp Harsdorffer, German poet (d. 1658) |
Nov 6 |
Sigmund Theophil Staden, composer |
Nov 15 |
Madeleine de Scudéry, French writer (d. 1701) |
Nov 19 |
Erasmus Quellinus II, [Quellien], Flemish painter/etcher |
Nov 26 |
John Harvard, England, clergyman/scholar, founded Harvard Univ |
Nov 28 |
Pietro Sforza, Italian theologist: Istoria del Concilio di Trento |
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