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René Descartes

French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)

Michael I of Russia

Tsar of Russia (1613–1645)

Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia

Electress consort of the Palatine and Queen of Bohemia (1596-1662)

Frederick V of the Palatinate

Elector Palatine (1610–23), and King of Bohemia (1619–20), the Winter King; died 1632

Dutch landscape painter (1596-1656)

Emperor Go-Mizunoo

emperor of Japan from 1611 to 1629

Metroploitan of Kyiv, Halych and All-Rus

Constantijn Huygens

Dutch writer, poet and composer (1596-1687)

Italian luthier from Cremona

Dutch cartographer (1596-1673)

Jacob van Campen

painter and architect from the Northern Netherlands (1596-1657)

Swedish Field Marshal (1596-1641)

Belgian Jesuit and hagiographer

Tommaso Francesco, 1st Prince of Carignano

Founder of the Savoy-Carignano branch of the House of Savoy

Korean politician, poet and scholar (1595-1682)

Leonaert Bramer

17th century Dutch artist known primarily for genre, religious, and history paintings (1596-1674)

English writer (1596–1666)

Dutch mathematician and orientalist

Bertuccio Valiero

Doge of Venice (1596-1658)

Abraham van Diepenbeeck

painter (1596-1675)

Princess Maria Elizabeth of Sweden

Swedish princess

English musician and composer

Swedish nobleman (1596–1674)

John Casimir, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau

Prince of Anhalf-Dessau

Elizabeth of Hesse-Kassel, Duchess of Mecklenburg

Duchess of Mecklenburg-Gütsrow

Isaac La Peyrère

French theologian

Juan van der Hamen

Spanish artist (1596-1630)

Catherine Henriette de Bourbon

Sultanzade Mehmet Paşa

Ottoman grand vizier (1603–1646)

French Baroque painter (1596-1657)

Lucas Holstenius

German humanist (1596-1661)

French Protestant theologian and metaphysician

Charles II of Lorraine, Duke of Elbeuf

French nobleman (1596-1657)

Orsola Maddalena Caccia

Italian painter of the Baroque period (1596-1676)

Chinese painter (1596-1673)

Italian painter (1596-1657)

Ralph Hopton, 1st Baron Hopton

English politician

Swiss political leader (1596-1639)

Louis-Emmanuel de Valois

Duke Frederick of Saxe-Weimar

German prince and colonel on the Protestant side in the Thirty Years' War

Alessandro Bichi

Catholic cardinal; bishop of Isola and of Carpentras

Matsudaira Nobutsuna

[松平信綱] Roju of Tokugawa shogunate; daimyo of Kawagoe

Jerzy Tyszkiewicz

Bishop of Samogitia and Vilnius

French philosopher (1596-1667)

Jacob de Gheyn III

engraver from the Northern Netherlands

English mathematician

António Luís de Meneses, 1st Marquis of Marialva

Portuguese general and noble

Laurentius Eichstadius

German astronomer, physician, and calendar maker (1596–1660)

Voivode of Moldavia (1596–1661)

Dutch painter (1596-1660)

English colonial Congregationalist clergyman 1596-1669

Ogasawara Tadazane

daimyo (1596-1667)

Michel Particelli d'Emery

French politician

Antonio Marenzi

Italian Catholic bishop

Francis of Hatzfeld

German prince-bishop

Olivier de Wree

Flemish writer and politician

daimyo (1596-1626)

Croatian baroque musician and composer (1596-1636)

Scottish Calvinist minister and member of the Hartlib Circle

Andrius Rudamina

Lithuanian Jesuit missionary in China