1590s births

Ukrainian military, political and statesman, Hetman of the Zaporizhzhya Army, head of Ukraine (1648–1657) during the Hetmanship

Pocahontas (, ; born Amonute, also known as Matoaka and Rebecca Rolfe; 1596 – March 1617) was a Native American woman belonging to the Powhatan people, notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia. She was the daughter of Wahunsenacawh, the paramount chief of a network of tributary tribes in the Tsenacommacah (known in English as the Powhatan Confederacy), encompassing the Tidewater region of what is today the U.S. state of Virginia.

Italian painter and architect of the High Baroque (1596-1669)

Flemish-French engraver (c.1592–1635)

Flemish-Dutch painter (c.1596–1660)

painter from the Northern Netherlands (1594–1680)

Dutch painter (c.1595–1624)

Dutch painter (1593-1657)

Dutch-German cartographer (1596-1665)

Dutch painter (1596-1667)

Polish nobleman (1591-1646)

Persian poet

Flemish painter (1586–1653)

Dutch painter (c.1597–1671)

Dutch composer

German composer

French explorer

Baroque painter (1597–1630)

Italian opera composer

Italian astronomer

English politician (1595–1643)

17th-century Armenian historian

German composer

Italian composer and organist

Dutch painter (1590-1647)

Italian composer and instrumentalist

English assassin

Chinese painter (1592-1680)

King of Ayutthaya

Dutch painter and engraver (1591–1624)

Italian nun and composer

Muhgal empress

Flemish painter

Dutch painter (1593-1657)

German general

Polish composer

Italian musicologist

Italian painter (1600-1651)

Anglo-Welsh historian and writer

Flemish painter (1590-1655)

Spanish viceroy

English general and politician

British merchant trader, traveller and writer

Portuguese scholar, writer, and playwright

English poet (1590–1645)

Emperor of Ethiopia

Dutch artist (1592 or 1593 – after 1650)

Flemish painter (1596–1666)

Earl of Devonshire

Prime Minister of Portugal

Italian composer (1596–1668)

Italian composer

French writer (1600-1646)

German baroque painter (1595-1638)

painter (1587-1625)

Dutch engraver, cartographer and painter

Portuguese cartographer

German composer

Spanish painter (1595-1674)

Italian composer (1595–1642)