1606 facts for kids

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1570s  1580s  1590s  – 1600s –  1610s  1620s  1630s
Years:	1603 1604 1605 – 1606 – 1607 1608 1609

Births

• February 12 – John Winthrop, the Younger, Governor of Connecticut (died 1676)
• March 3 – Edmund Waller, English poet (died 1687)
• May 23 – Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish writer (d. 1682)
• May 25 – Saint Charles Garnier, Jesuit missionary (died 1649)
• June 6 – Pierre Corneille, French writer (died 1684)
• June 16 – Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, Irish soldier (died 1675)
• June 19 – James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish statesman (died 1649)
• July 15 – Rembrandt, Dutch painter (died 1669)
• September 22 – Li Zicheng, Chinese rebel (died 1645)
• November 12 – Jeanne Mance, French settler in Montreal (died 1673)
• Richard Busby, English clergyman (died 1695)
• Leonard Calvert, governor of Baltimore (died 1647)
• Edmund Castell, English orientalist (died 1685)
• William Davenant, English poet and playwright (died 1668)
• Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester (died 1680)
• Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, Italian architect and painter (died 1680)
• Thomas Harrison, English puritan soldier and Fifth Monarchist (died 1660)
• Thomas Herbert, English traveller and historian (died 1682)
• John Robartes, 1st Earl of Radnor (died 1685)
• Pierre du Ryer, French dramatist (died 1658)
• Joachim von Sandrart, German art-historian and painter (died 1688)
• Tokugawa Tadanaga, Japanese nobleman (died 1633)
• Thomas Washbourne, English clergyman and poet (died 1687)