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Scottish mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (1550–1617)

14th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1603–1617)

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.

Dominican saint from Peru

Francisco Suárez

Spanish Jesuit priest, philosopher and theologian (1548-1617)

4th Dalai Lama of Tibet (1589-1616)

David Fabricius

German astronomer

emperor of Japan from 1586 to 1611

Hendrik Goltzius

German-born Dutch printmaker, draftsman and painter (1558-1617)

Dorothea of Denmark, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Duchess consort of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Concino Concini

Marshal of France

Giovanni Botero

Italian diplomat and academic

Prospero Alpini

Venetian physician and botanist (1553-1616)

Giovanni Antonio Magini

Italian mathematician, cartographer and astronomer (1555–1617)

Fausto Veranzio

Humanist and bishop

British painter (1556-1617)

Bernardino Baldi

Italian mathematician and poet (1553–1617)

Tarquinia Molza

Italian singer and composer

François d'Aguilon

architect, mathematician, physicist (1567-1617)

Dorothea Maria of Anhalt

Duchess consort of Saxe-Weimar

Jacques Auguste de Thou

French historian (1553-1617)

Sedefkar Mehmed Ağa

architect of the Sultan Ahmed Mosque in Istanbul

Alphonsus Rodriguez

(1532-1617) lay brother and saint

Luis de Velasco, 1st Marquess of Salinas

Giovanni Bassano

Italian composer

Adam Wenceslaus, Duke of Cieszyn

Duke of Teschen

Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau

prince-archbishop of Salzburg between 1587 and 1612 (1559–1617)

Christopher Newport

English privateer

Spanish composer and bandmaster at the cathedrals of Sevilla, Toledo and Cuenca

George II, Duke of Pomerania

non-reigning Duke of Pomerania (1582-1617)

Charles II, Duke of Münsterberg-Oels

Duke of Oels, Duke of Bernstadt (1545-1617)

English traveller and writer of the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean age

Legendary Polish king

Charlotte de Sauve

French courtesan

Flemish painter (1580-1617)

ruler of the West African empire of Bornu

Dorothea, Abbess of Quedlinburg

Spanish jesuit missionery

Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn

German bishop (1545-1617)

Korean general (1552–1617)

Dutch botanist and anatomist (1564-1617)

Antonino da Patti

Italian monk (c. 1539-1618)

Thomas Egerton, 1st Viscount Brackley

English politician (1540–1617)

Maria Vittoria De Fornari Strata

Beatified Italian nun

Aleixo de Menezes

Roman Catholic archbishop

Christoph Brouwer

Dutch historian (1559-1617)

Nicolas de Neufville, seigneur de Villeroy

secretary of state under four kings of France (1542-1617)

Italian architect (1565-1617)

Bonifazio Caetani

Italian cardinal

Bernardo de Brito

Portuguese historian (1569-1617)

Alonso de Ribera

Royal Governor of Chile

Lorenzo IV Suárez de Figueroa y Córdoba

Spanish diplomat and military personnel (1559-1607)

John Ernest van Nassau-Siegen

eldest son of John VII of Nassau-Siegen, Dutch general

librarian (1556-1617)

Otto, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel

Hereditary Prince of Hesse-Kassel, Administrator of Hersfeld Abbey

wife of Maeda Toshiie, Japanese daimyo

Edward Talbot, 8th Earl of Shrewsbury

English politician and Earl (1561-1617)

Ming Dynasty phonologist and bibliophile, his most important contribution is in phonology

Costanza Sforza, duchess of Sora

Italian duchess (1558-1617)