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Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (15 July 1606 – 4 October 1669) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker, and draughtsman. He is generally considered one of the greatest visual artists in the history of Western art. It is estimated that Rembrandt's surviving works amount to about three hundred paintings, three hundred etchings, and several hundred drawings.

Pierre Corneille

French tragedian (1606–1684)

Maria Anna of Spain

Wife of Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III (1606-1646)

Christine of France

Duchess of Savoy (1606-1663)

Chinese rebel leader in the late Ming-early Qing period (1606–1645)

William Davenant

English poet and playwright

Joachim von Sandrart the Elder

German Baroque art-historian and painter (1606-1688)

Jan Davidsz. de Heem

Dutch-Flemish painter (1606–1684)

Roman Catholic bishop

Hermann Conring

German philosopher (1606-1681)

Zhang Xianzhong

Chinese rebel leader (1606-1647)

Italian painter (1606-1665)

Laurent de La Hyre

French painter and engraver (1606-1656)

Nicolò Sagredo

Doge of Venice (1606-1676)

Nicolas Mignard

French painter (1606-1668)

Christoph Bernhard von Galen

Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz

Spanish mathematician and theologian

Marie de Bourbon

Countess of Soissons (1606-1692)

Georg von Derfflinger

German general (1606-1695)

James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton

Scottish nobleman and leader during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms (1606-1649)

Sir Thomas Herbert, 1st Baronet

English baronet, traveller, artist and historian (1606–1682)

English poet and politician (1606-1687)

settler of New France, co-founder of the city of Montreal, Canada

Juliana of Hesse-Darmstadt

Countess of East Frisia

Junije Palmotić

Croatian writer

Arvid Wittenberg

Field Marshal of Sweden (1606-1657)

John X of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp

prince-Bishop of Lübeck

Agnes of Hesse-Kassel

Princess consort of Anhalt-Dessau (1606-1650)

French Jesuit priest (1606-1683)

painter (1606-1669)

Abraham de Wicquefort

Joan Maetsuycker

Dutch colonial governor (1606–1678)

George Frederick, Prince of Nassau-Siegen

Prince of Nassau-Siegen

Vincentio Reinieri

Italian mathematician and astronomer

Corfitz Ulfeldt

Danish statesman (1606–1664)

Charles Garnier

French Jesuit missionary (1606-1649)

Pieter de Jode II

Flemish engraver and painter (1606-1674)

Roland Fréart de Chambray

French writer (1606–1676)

Tokugawa Tadanaga

daimyo (1606-1634)

Giacinto Gimignani

Italian painter (1606-1681)

Nicolas Perrot d'Ablancourt

Leonard Calvert

first governor of Maryland colony (1606-1647)

Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi

Italian painter, engraver and architect (1606-1680)

Gabriel Kolenda

Greek Catholic bishop

Third Trịnh lord

John Winthrop the Younger

Governor of the Saybrook and Connecticut Colonies (1606-1676)

English orientalist (1606-1685)

English physician and early Baconian natural philosopher

Lodovico Buglio

Italian Jesuit active in China

son of Galileo Galilei and Marina Gamba

Hardouin de Péréfixe de Beaumont

Roman Catholic archbishop

Francesco Maria Mancini

Catholic cardinal

Francis Gonzaga, Duke of Rethel

French aristocrat

English composer and organist; (1606-1697)

English general

Dutch missionary (1606-1655)

King of central Tibet (Ü-Tsang) (1606-1642)

Italian painter (1606-1675)

Empress Xiao'aizhe

Ming Dynasty empress; CBDB ID=130453

Peter Franchoys

Flemish painter (1606-1654)