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Joost van den Vondel

Dutch poet and writer (1587-1679)

Victor Amadeus I of Savoy

Duke of Savoy (1587–1637)

Francesca Caccini

Italian composer

German composer, organist and teacher (1587-1654)

Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares

Spanish royal favourite of Philip IV and minister (1587-1645)

Johannes Fabricius

German astronomer

first child born in the Americas to English parents (fl. 16. century)

Magdalene of Bavaria

Consort of Wolfgang William, Count Palatine of Neuburg (1587-1628)

Jan Pieterszoon Coen

Dutch colonial governor

Korean poet (1587-1671)

Esaias van de Velde

Dutch landscape painter (1587-1630)

Italian composer and teacher (1587-1639)

Chinese geographer and traveller

Ferdinando Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua

Catholic cardinal (1587-1626)

Chinese scholar (1587-1666)

Claes Janszoon Visscher II

draughtsman, engraver, printmaker, publisher (1587-1652)

son of the Mughal emperor Jahangir (1587-1622)

Virginia Centurione Bracelli

Italian saint (1587-1651)

Joachim Jungius

German scholar of the XVIIth century

Countess Juliane of Nassau-Siegen

daughter of Count John of Nassau-Siegen, by marriage Landgravine of Hesse-Kassel

Dutch politician, industrialist, gun merchant (1587-1652)

Christian William of Brandenburg

Administrator of bishoprics of Magdeburg and Halberstadt

Annet de Clermont-Gessant

Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller

Dorothea Hedwig of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

Princess of Anhalt-Zerbst

Guillaume Bouzignac

French composer

Lady Mary Wroth

British actor (1587-1620)

Alexander Adriaenssen

Flemish still life painter (1587-1661)

Éléonore de Bourbon

John Frederick, Count Palatine of Sulzbach-Hilpoltstein

Count Palatine of Sulzbach-Hilpoltstein (1587-1644)

Simon VII, Count of Lippe

Count of Lippe-Detmold

Kaspar von Barth

German philologist (1587-1658)

Hans van Steenwinckel the Younger

Danish architect

Libert Froidmont

Belgian theologian

Giovanni Giacomo Panciroli

Catholic cardinal

Dorothea Sophia, Abbess of Quedlinburg

Abbess of Quedlinburg Abbey (1587-1645)

Sophie, Duchess Consort of Pomerania-Barth

Duchess consort of Pomerania-Stettin (1587-1635)

Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick

Royal Navy admiral (1587-1658)

Sebastián Hurtado de Corcuera

Spanish imperial official

Gómez Suárez de Figueroa, 3rd Duke of Feria

Spanish general (1587-1634)

Philippe-Charles, 3rd Count of Arenberg

Duke of Aarschot

British theologian

Kasper Doenhoff

Polish noble (1588-1645)

Willem Bontekoe

Dalmatian renaissance musician and composer

Karma Phuntsok Namgyal

Joris van Schooten

Dutch Golden Age painter (1587-1651)

Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford

English politician

Claes Gerritszoon Compaen

privateer and pirate

Sakai Tadakatsu

daimyo of the early Edo period, Tairō of the Tokugawa shogunate; 1st lord of Obama

Peter Kasui Kibe

Japanese Jesuit

Marten Ryckaert

Flemish landscape painter (1587-1631)

Bartolomé Román

Spanish baroquie painter (c.1587-1647)

sixth bishop of Antwerp

Gabriel Gustafsson Oxenstierna

Swedish statesman (1587-1640)

Manggūltai (; ; 1587 – 11 January 1633) was a Manchu noble and an important military and political leader in the early years of the Qing dynasty. He helped Hong Taiji consolidate his power by handing over his Plain Blue Banner to Hong Taiji. He died when he was 45 to 46 years old in 1633.

Danish physician and humanist

Isaac de Razilly

German Jesuit priest and orator