1606 deaths

Guy Fawkes, also known as Guido Fawkes while fighting for the Spanish, was a member of a group of provincial English Catholics involved in the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605. He was born and educated in York; his father died when Fawkes was eight years old, after which his mother married a recusant Catholic.

Tsar of Russia (1605–1606)

The fifth Guru of Sikhism (1563-1606)

Flemish painter, poet and art historian (1548–1606)

Prince of Transylvania (1557–1606)

English playwright, poet and dramatist (c.1553/4-1606)

Flemish philologist, philosopher and legal scholar (1547-1606)

Italian Jesuit missionary

Spanish Roman Catholic archbishop and saint (1538–1606)

Count of Nassau-Dillenburg

Ottoman Empire politician

French writer

Italian noble and admiral (1539-1606)

Ottoman grand vizier (1550–1606)

Keumalahayati, or Malahayati (fl. 16th century), was an admiral of the Aceh Sultanate navy, which ruled the area of modern Aceh Province, Sumatra, Indonesia. She is described as the first woman admiral in the modern world. Her troops were drawn from Aceh's widows and the army named the "Inong Balee", after Fort Inong Balee.

German clergyman and cartographer

Italian philologist (1530-1606)

daimyo

16th-century English linguist and translator

Spanish viceroy (1560-1606)

Spanish military poet and priest

Duke of Pomerania-Stettin from 1603 to 1606

composer

Jesuit lay brother and martyr

spanish poet

voivode of Moldavia

King of Kartli from 1599 to 1606

German princess

English Jesuit, executed because of his involvement in the Gunpowder Plot of 5 November 1605

German monarch

Italian artist (1559-1606)

Chinese mathematician (1533-1606)

Italian cardinal

Dutch army commander (1550-1606)

Moroccan military leader

Italian economist and agronomist (1529-1606)

German poet and mystic

English statesman (1563-1606)

English martyr

French composer

Co-ruler of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Harburg (1570-1606)

Spanish noble

Catholic executed for involvement in UK 1605 Gunpowder plot

Spanish theologian; (1544-1606)

politician

Belgian science writer

Flemish sculptor and medalist (1530–1606)

English criminal

Roman Catholic bishop

Italian painter (1560-1607)

Italian painter

daimyo

Italian painter (1540-1606)

(1578–1606) English conspirator in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605

Count of Bentheim, Tecklenburg, Steinfurt and Limburg, Lord of Rheda (1554-1606)

Members of the Gunpowder plot

Italian Jesuit writer

Lord Mayor of London, 1596

member of the failed Gunpowder Plot

Czech cardinal