Chronology of Notable Births

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Last updated: 2023 December 20.


1600

January 17
  • Birth of Pedro Caldéron de la Barca Spanish poet/dramatist. [1]
January 28
  • Birth of Clement IX [Giulio Rospigliosi], Pistoia, Italy, 238th pope (1667-69). [1]
February 2
  • Birth of Gabriel Naudé France, librarian (Mazarin Library). [1]
November 19
  • Birth of Charles I king of England (1625-49); executed by Parliament. [1]

1601

January 31
  • Birth of Pieter de Bloot Dutch landscape painter. [1]
March 5
  • Birth of Johann Michael Moscherosch in Willstädt; Baroque satirist (Wunderliche und wahrhafftige Geschichte Philanders von Sittewald (1643)), member of the Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft writers group. [37]
March 19
  • Birth of Alonzo Cano Spanish painter/sculptor (Cathedral Granada). [1]
May 2
  • Birth of Athanasius Kircher German Jesuit/inventor (magic lantern). [1]
August 17
  • Birth of Pierre de Fermat mathematician who needed wider margins. [1]
September 27
  • Birth of Louis XIII king of France (1610-43). [1]
December 25
  • Birth of Jose Ximenez composer. [1]

1602

January 6
  • Birth of Karl Rabenhaupt German/Dutch baron of Sucha/army leader. [1]
February 9
  • Birth of Franciscus van de Enden Flemish Jesuit/free thinker/tutor of Spinoza. [1]
February 14
  • Birth of Pier Francesco Cavalli Italian opera composer. [1]
March 7
  • Birth of Kano Tanju Japanese painter (palaces, portraits). [1]
March 29
  • Birth of John Lightfoot English theologist/literary (Horae Hebraicae). [1]

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April 2
  • Birth of Maria de Jesus de Agreda [Maria Coronel] Spanish franciscan. [1]
April 11
  • Birth of Johann Neukrantz composer. [1]
April 30
  • Birth of William Lilly England, astrologer/author/almanac compiler. [1]
July 14
  • Birth of Guilio Mazarini in Rome, Italy; French cardinal, French first Minister (1642-61). [1] [1206.39]
November 20
  • Birth of Otto von Guericke in Magdeburg; invented an air pump in 1650, first to learn that light travels through a vacuum, but sound does not, first to demonstrate that a vacuum can exist, built the world's first electric generator in 1663. [1] [37]

1603

February 1
  • Birth of Michael Trumper composer. [1]
March 28
  • Birth of Stephan Otto composer. [1]
April 3
  • Birth of William Smith composer. [1]
April 26
  • Birth of Francesco Nigetti composer. [1]

1604

January 4
  • Birth of Jacob Balde German jesuit/barok conductor (Jephthe). [1]
March 19
  • Birth of Johan IV composer/king of Portugal (1640-56). [1]
August 5
  • Birth of John Eliot "Apostle to Indians," Bible translator. [1]
December 7
  • Birth of Ambrosius Reiner composer. [1]

1605

February 1
  • Birth of Isaac Aboab de Fonseca Portuguese/Netherlands rabbi/mystic. [1]
April 8
  • Birth of Louis de Vadder Flemish painter. [1]
  • Birth of Philip IV king of Spain and Portugal (1621-65). [1]
April 18
  • Birth of Giacomo Carissimi composer. [1]
April 19
  • Birth of Orazio Benevoli composer. [1]
May 24
  • Birth of Nikon [Nikita Minin] patriarch of Russian-orthodox church. [1]
October 3
  • Birth of Li Tzu-ch'eng Chinese revolutionary, dethroned last Ming emperor. [1]
October 19
  • Birth of Thomas Browne British writer (Garden of Cyrus). [1]
December 1
  • Birth of Juan de Padilla composer. [1]

1606

March 3
  • Birth of Edmund Waller England, poet (Penshust). [1]
May 6
  • Birth of Lorenzo Lippi [Perlone Zipoli] poet/painter. [1]
June 6
  • Birth of Pierre Corneille France, dramatist (Le Cid, Horace). [1]
July 15
  • Birth of Rembrandt van Rijn Leiden, Netherlands, painter (Night Watch). [1]
December 20
  • Birth of Christoph Schultze composer. [1]

1607

January 31
  • Birth of James Stanley 7th Earl of Derby. [1]
February 9
  • Birth of Abraham Megerle composer. [1]
March 1
  • Birth of Giovanni Francesco Milanta composer. [1]
March 8
  • Birth of Johann Rist composer. [1]
March 24
  • Birth of Michiel A de Ruyter Dutch Rear Admiral (Saint Vincent, Dune). [1]
November 1
  • Birth of Georg Philipp Harsdörfer in Nürnberg; Baroque poet (Pegnesisches Schäfergedicht (1644)) and theorist, a founder of the Pegnitzer Hirtengesellschaft literary society, author (Poetischer Trichter, die Teutsche Dicht und Reimkunst, ohne Behuf der Lateinischen Sprache, in sechs Stunden einzugiessen). [1] [37]
November 26
  • Birth of John Harvard England, clergyman/scholar, major benefactor to Harvard University (library and half his estate). [1]

1608

April 25
  • Birth of Jean duke of Orléans brother of French King Louis XIII/General. [1]
July 13
  • Birth of Ferdinand III in Graz, Austria; Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire during the 30 Years' War, agreed to the Peace of Westphalia which ended the war. [37]
December 6
  • Birth of George Monck/Monk English general/Governor of Scotland. [1]
December 9
  • Birth of John Milton London, poet/puritan (Paradise Lost). [1]

1609

January 30
  • Birth of Wenzel E Fürst von Lobkowitz Austrian chancellor (-1674). [1]
February 10
  • Birth of John Suckling English Cavalier poet/dramatist/courtier. [1]
February 18
  • Birth of Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon, English lord chancellor/Prime Minister (1660-67). [1]
March 2
  • Birth of Hadji Chalfa/Kâtib Tsjelebi Turkish literary (Djihannüma). [1]
March 16
  • Birth of Michael Franck composer. [1]
March 18
  • Birth of Frederick III king of Denmark and Norway (1648-70), absolutist. [1]
March 21
  • Birth of Jan II Kazimierz cardinal/King of Poland (1648-68). [1]
May 16
  • Birth of Ferdinand Austria, cardinal of Spain/Governor of Netherlands. [1]

1610

February 13
  • Birth of Jean de la Badie French divine, founder of the Lagardists. [1]
March 1
  • Birth of Johann B Schup [Schuppius] German poet/historian. [1]
March 19
  • Birth of Hasegawa Tohaku Japanese painter. [1]
April 22
  • Birth of Alexander VIII [Pietro Ottoboni] Italy, lawyer/Pope (1689-91). [1]
May 24
  • Birth of Giovanni Battista Chinelli composer. [1]
December 15
  • Birth of David Teniers II Flemish courtpainter (Theatrum Pictorium). [1]
December 18
  • Birth of Charles Du Fresne Du Cange French scholar/philologist. [1]

1611

January 7
  • Birth of James Harrington England, political author (Commonwealth of Oceans). [1]
January 28
  • Birth of Johannes Hevelius Danzig, astronomer (star cataloger). [1]
February 19
  • Birth of Andries de Graeff mayor of Amsterdam (1657-71). [1]
March 25
  • Birth of Evliya Çelebi in Istanbul; author (Seyahatname 10 volumes, travel writing). [1516.29]
April 9
  • Birth of Giacomo Maria Predieri composer. [1]
May 4
  • Birth of Carlo Rainaldi composer. [1]
May 19
  • Birth of Innocent XI [Benedetto Odescalchi] Italy, 240th Roman Catholic Pope (1676-89). [1]

1612

January 7
  • Birth of Paul de La Pierre composer. [1]
January 17
  • Birth of Thomas Fairfax Lord Fairfax, English Parliamentary General. [1]
January 31
  • Birth of Hendrik Casimir I count of Nassau-Dietz/mayor of Frisia. [1]
February 6
  • Birth of Antoine Arnauld [Grand Arnauld], French lawyer/theologist. [1]
February 7
  • Birth of Thomas Killigrew English humorist/playwright/leader (King's Men). [1]
February 8
  • Birth of Samuel Butler England, poet/satirist (Hudibras) (baptized). [1]

1613

January 19
  • Birth of Jacques Huyn composer. [1]
January 26
  • Birth of Johann Jakob Wolleb composer. [1]
April 7
  • Birth of Gerard Dou Dutch painter (Night School). [1]
September 15
  • Birth of Francois duc de la Rochefoucald Paris France, writer (Memoires). [1]

1614

January 31
  • Birth of Nicolas Saboly composer. [1]
February 23
  • Birth of Jacob Colijn(s) Dutch coat of arms painter. [1]
March 15
  • Birth of Franciscus Sylvius in Hanau; physician, concluded that the basis of life and disease is chemical and that chemical compounds can be used to treat disease. [37]
April 8
  • Birth of El Greco [Domenikos Theotokopoulos] Iráklion Crete Greece, painter (View of Toledo). [1]
April 25
  • Birth of Hieronymus van Beverningk chief Dutch treasurer/maecenas. [1]
  • Birth of Marc'Antonio Pasqualini composer. [1]

1615

January 14
  • Birth of John Biddle English minister (Unitarian). [1]
January 25
  • Birth of Govert Flinck Dutch painter (Isaac blesses Jacob). [1]
February 23
  • Birth of Cornelis Galle II Flemish engraver/illustrator, baptised. [1]
March 6
  • Birth of Jan Zoet actor/playwright/poet (Parnasssus aan 't Y). [1]
March 13
  • Birth of Innocent XII [Antonio Pignatelli] Pope (1691-1700). [1]
March 28
  • Birth of Pieter de Groot Dutch regent/diplomat. [1]

1616

January 13
  • Birth of Antoinette Bourignon Flemish mystic/French religious fanatic. [1]
January 30
  • Birth of William Sancroft Archbishop (Canterbury). [1]
February 19
  • Birth of Jacques de Saint-Luc composer. [1]
February 28
  • Birth of Kaspar Forster composer. [1]
March 6
  • Birth of Malachias Siebenhaar composer. [1]
March 29
  • Birth of Johann Erasmus Kindermann composer. [1]
December 21
  • Birth of Pietro Andrea Ziani composer. [1]

1617

April 3
  • Birth of Antimo Liberati composer. [1]
May 23
  • Birth of Elias Ashmole antiquary. [1]

1618

January 1
  • Birth of Bartolomé Esteban Murillo Spain, Baroque artist [baptized]. [1]
January 14
  • Birth of Jan Six Dutch mayor of Amsterdam. [1]
April 2
  • Birth of Francesco M Grimaldi mathematician/physicist (light defraction). [1]
December 26
  • Birth of Elisabeth Paltsgravin of Rhine/abbess. [1]

1619

February 24
  • Birth of Charles Le Brun Paris, painter, designer (The Chancellor Séguier). [1]
March 6
  • Birth of Cyrano de Bergerac famous nose, dramatist (A Voyage to the Moon). [1]
April 21
  • Birth of John A van Riebeeck colonial director/founder (Cape Colony). [1]
May 24
  • Birth of Philips Wouwerman(s) Dutch painter. [1]
December 18
  • Birth of Rupert in Prague, son of Elector Frederick V and Elizabeth; prince of Palts, admiral, general, chemist, engraver, mathematician. [1458.11]

End of 1600-1619. Next: 1620.

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