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René Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)
William II, Prince of Orange
prince of Orange and Stadtholder of Holland (1626–1650)
Tukaram
Tukaram (Marathi pronunciation: [t̪ukaːɾam]), also known as Tuka, Tukobaraya, and Tukoba, was a Hindu Marathi saint of the Warkari Sampradaya who lived in the 17th century. He was a devotee of the god Vithoba, a form of Vishnu. He is best known for his devotional poetry called abhanga, which is popular in Maharashtra. Many of his poems deal with social reform.
Matthäus Merian
Swiss-born engraver, publisher (1593–1650)
Christoph Scheiner
Jesuit father, physicist and astronomer (*1575 – †1650)
Dorgon
Dorgon (17 November 1612 – 31 December 1650) was a Manchu prince and regent of the early Qing dynasty. Born in the House of Aisin-Gioro as the 14th son of Nurhaci (the founder of the Later Jin dynasty, which was the predecessor of the Qing), Dorgon started his career in military campaigns against the Mongols, the Koreans, and the Ming dynasty during the reign of Hong Taiji (his eighth brother) who succeeded their father.
Bernhardus Varenius
German geographer
Jean Rotrou
French writer
Antonio
Basque explorer, adventurer, soldier, explorer, memorialist, authorized by Pope Urban VIII to dress like a man
Claude Favre de Vaugelas
Savoyard grammarian and man of letters (1585-1650)
James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose
Scottish nobleman, poet and soldier of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms (1612-1650)
Giovanni Battista Zupi
Italian astronomer
Charlotte Marguerite de Montmorency
Heiress of one of France's leading ducal families, and Princess of Condé by her marriage to Henry II, Prince of Condé
İbrahim Peçevi
Ottoman historian
John Parkinson
English herbalist and botanist (1567-1650)
Hanzade Sultan
Ottoman princess, daughter of Ottoman Sultan Ahmed I
Princess Elizabeth of England
English Royal
Duchess Elisabeth, Duchess Consort of Saxe-Altenburg
Duchess Consort of Saxe-Altenburg (1618 - 1639)
Bartol Kašić
Croatian linguist and lexicographer
Cristóvão Ferreira
Portuguese Jesuit missionary
Louis I, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen
German prince
François Perrier
French painter and engraver
Matteo Rosselli
Italian painter (1578-1650)
Manuel Cardoso
Portuguese composer and organist
Bartlomiej Strobel
Polish artist German painter (1591-1647)
Virginia de Leyva
Italian noblewoman and nun
Charles de Valois, Duke of Angoulême
French writer
Koçi Bey
Ottomon bureaucrat
Ferdinand of Bavaria
Archbishop of Cologne
Agnes of Hesse-Kassel
Princess consort of Anhalt-Dessau (1606-1650)
Tokugawa Yoshinao
daimyo
Iwasa Matabē
Japanese artist (1578-1650)
Niccolò Cabeo
Italian Jesuit philosopher (1586-1650)
Sophie Elisabeth of Brandenburg
Duchess consort of Saxe-Altenburg
Marion Delorme
17th-century French courtesan
Trophime Bigot
French painter (1579-1650)
Zofia Czeska
Polish-Lithuanian nun
Phineas Fletcher
British writer
Cornelis Galle the Elder
Flemish printmaker and publisher (1576-1650)
Carl Gyllenhielm
Swedish politician (1574-1650)
Cesare Monti
Cardinal and Archbishop of Milan (1594-1650)
Hedwig of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
Duchess consort of Pomerania
Francesco Sacrati
Italian composer (1605-1650)
Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke
English courtier and politician (1584-1650)
Simon Philip, Count of Lippe
Count of Lippe-Detmold (1632-1650)
Yagyū Mitsuyoshi
samurai of the early Edo period
Tommaso Dolabella
Italian painter (1570–1650)
Urbain de Maillé-Brézé
Marshal of France during the Thirty Years' War and Franco-Spanish War (1635)
Matsudaira Tadanao
[松平忠直] daimyo of the early Edo period; lord of Fukui
Hendrik Hondius I
engraver, cartographer and publisher from the Netherlands
Mōri Hidemoto
daimyo
Martin Droeshout
English engraver of Flemish background (1601 – c.1650)
Jan Leeghwater
Dutch architect and engineer (1575–1650)
Kanō Naonobu
Japanese painter (1607-1650)
Pieter van Mol
Flemish painter (1599-1650)
Antoon Sallaert
Flemish painter (1594–1650)
Maximilian von und zu Trauttmansdorff
Austrian diplomat
Jean Baudoin
French translator (1590-1650)
Philip Frederick of the Palatinate
German noble
Franciscus Quaresmius
Italian orientalist