1600s births

15th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1617–1618, 1622–1623)

German Jesuit scholar (1601 or 1602-1680)

French painter, draughtsman and etcher (1600—1682)

Russian explorer

politician and military commander of the Holy Roman Empire (1609-1680)

Flemish painter (1605-1638)

Italian chess player

painter from the Northern Netherlands (c.1602-1670)

French military engineer and cartographer

French artist (1604-1676)

Ukrainian cossack

Ottoman princess (1607-1671), daughter of Ahmed I

Dutch painter (1603-1677)

Dutch painter (1601-1653)

Puritan missionary to the American Indians

Daughter of Ottoman Sultan Ahmed I

daughter of Ottoman Sultan Ahmed I

Dutch painter (1601-1669)

French writer (1600–1674)

French dramatist and playwright (1601-1655)

Dutch Golden Age painter (1603-1671)

Scottish soldier, statesman, diplomat, judge, spy and philosopher

Dutch or Flemish painter

Italian painter, poet and priest (1603–1646)

Flemish-German painter

Flemish painter (1605–1660)

Royal Prussian-born English polymath c. 1600–1662

German astronomer (1600-1633)

Karacaoğlan was a 17th-century Anatolian Turkish folk poet and ashik. His exact dates of birth and death are unknown but it is widely accepted that he was born around 1606 and died around 1679. He lived around the city of Osmaniye. His tomb, which was organized as a mausoleum in 1997, is at Karacaoğlan hill in the village of Karacaoğlan, Mut, Mersin. In this regard, he was the first known folk poet and ashik whose statue was built.

Dutch painter (1607-1681)

painter from the Northern Netherlands (1600-1652)

Spanish painter (1606-1670)

British artist (1606-1679)

Ecumenical Patriarch

Dutch Golden Age painter (1605-1671)

Minister of the Church of Scotland and Scottish Reformed theologian

Italian composer, conductor and violinist

Czech poet, composer, choirmaster, writer, organist and nobleman

French dramatist

early-modern French mathematician

Dutch painter (1606–1662)

French mathematician and librarian

Italian composer and priest

Italian painter (1604-1670)

Marquess of Worcester

English linguist and feminist writer

French composer and harpsichordist

Polish military engineer and artillery officer

Italian violinist, keyboardist, and composer

Italian singer and composer

17th-century Dutch Golden Age painter

Italian painter (1618-1672)

Scottish cavalry officer (1600-1682)

Flemish Jesuit, Neo-Latin poet, physician, art dealer, philosopher and teacher of Baruch de Spinoza (1602-1674)

Italian poet, composer and librettist

painter from the Northern Netherlands (1610–1664)

Japanese sumo wrestler

Roman Catholic bishop and Viceroy of New Spain (1608–1673)

Polish composer

Portuguese writer