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Last updated: 2008 October 2.

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 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] 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 Jules Mazarin France, cardinal, French first Minister (1642-61). [1] November 20 Birth of Otto von Guericke inventor (air pump). [1] 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] December 21 Roger Williams is born (dies 1684). [5] 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 Sir 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 Harsdorfer Nurenberg Germany, poet (Poetischer Trichter). [1] November 26 Birth of John Harvard England, clergyman/scholar, major benefactor to Harvard University (library and half his estate). [1] 1608 January 28 Birth of Giovanni Alfonso Borelli Naples Italy, mathematician/astronomer/physiologist. [1] February 6 Birth of Antonio Vieira Portuguese Jesuit preacher. [1] April 25 Birth of Jean duke of Orléans brother of French King Louis XIII/General. [1] 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 Sir 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] March 22 Birth of John II Casimir Vasa 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] 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] 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] May 19 Birth of Johann Jacob Froberger German singer/organist/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 17 Birth of Ruprecht prince of Palts/admiral/chemist/engraver/mathematician. [1]