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pope of the Catholic Church from 1670 to 1676 (1590-1676)

14th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1603–1617)

French painter (1590-1649)

Cosimo II de' Medici

Grand Duke of Tuscany (1590-1621)

Théophile de Viau

French poet (1590-1696)

William Bradford

English Separatist leader in Leiden, Holland and in Plymouth Colony (1590-1657)

Urbain Grandier

Charles of Austria, Bishop of Wroclaw

Austrian archduke (1590-1624)

María de Zayas

Spanish writer of the Golden Age

John Albert II, Duke of Mecklenburg

Co-ruler of Mecklenburg, later ruler of Mecklenburg-Güstrow

Flemish painter and Jesuit (1590-1661)

Benedetta Carlini

Italian mystic and nun

Alessandro Grandi

Italian composer

Manuel de Faria e Sousa

Portuguese writer and historian (1590-1649)

Yamada Nagamasa

Japanese explorer (1590-1630)

François Perrier

French painter and engraver

Bartholomeus van Bassen

Dutch painter (1590-1652)

8th king of the Ryukyu Kingdom

Moldavian chronicler

Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana

Italian singer and composer

John Louis of Nassau-Hadamar

Count of Nassau-Hadamar (1590-1653)

noblewoman; English countess (1590-1676)

Andries van Eertvelt

Flemish painter (1590-1652)

Asenath Barzani

Kurdish female rabbi, scholar and yeshiva head in Mosul, Iraq

Caterina Ginnasi

Italian painter (1590-1660)

Nicolas Tournier

French painter (1590–1639)

King Songtham () also known as King Borommaracha I () was the king of the Ayutthaya Kingdom from 1611 to 1628, of the Sukhothai dynasty. His reign marked a period of prosperity for Ayutthaya following the restoration of independence from the Toungoo Empire after the reign of Bayinnaung. It also saw the beginning of expanded overseas trade, particularly with the Dutch and the Japanese. Songtham employed foreign mercenaries as royal guards; most notably the Japanese soldier Yamada Nagamasa (Okya Senaphimuk), commander of the Japanese volunteer corps.

Countess of Essex and Somerset

William Louis of Nassau-Saarbrücken

Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken (1627-1640)

Dorothea Sibylle of Brandenburg

Miron Barnovschi-Movilă

Prince of Moldavia in the 17th century

Johannes Crellius

German theologian

Empress Xiaoliewu

primary consort of Nurhaci, founder of the Qing Dynasty

Bartolomeo Bianco

Italian architect

French translator (1590-1650)

Anna of Pomerania

Duchess-Consort of Croy and Havré

Johann Matthäus Meyfart

German theologian and writer

Peter Parchevsky

writer from the Northern Netherlands

Janusz Tyszkiewicz Łohojski

Polish-Lithuanian noble

Russian statesman

French architect and engineer

Daniel de Priézac

French jurist, writer

Hans Jordaens III

Flemish painter and draughtsman (1581-1643)

Raffaello Vanni

Italian painter (1587-1673)

Giovanni Bernardo Carlone

Italian painter (1584-1631)

Manuel de Moura, 2nd Marquis of Castelo Rodrigo

Portuguese noble (1590-1651)

Luciano Borzone

Italian painter (1590-1645)

Dutch Golden Age painter, engraver and art dealer (ca. 1599-1660)

Giacomo De Franchi Toso

Agostino Mascardi

Italian rhetorician, historian and poet

Jagannatha Panditaraja

Indian Sanskrit scholar from the 17th century

Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland

English courtier, peer and soldier

Franco Burgersdijk

Isaac Manasses de Pas, Marquis de Feuquieres

French military general (1590-1640)

French painter active in Naples (c.1590-1656)

Jewish kabbalist, student of Isaac Luria (1590–1610)

Austrian military