What is 1606?
{{Year nav|1606}} {{Year in various calendars|1606}} {{Year article header|1606}} == 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 writer (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]]) [[Category:1606| ]]