Who was alive in 1606?
29 of the people we track were surely alive in 1606. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.
Born in 1606: Rembrandt and Pierre Corneille.
- William Shakespeare42
- Galileo Galilei42
- René Descartes10
- Miguel de Cervantes57–61
- Rembrandtborn
- Francis Bacon45
- Johannes Kepler34
- Peter Paul Rubens29
- Diego Velázquez7
- Thomas Hobbes18
- Lope de Vega44
- Oliver Cromwell7
- Caravaggio35
- El Greco65
- Charles I of England6
- Pierre Corneilleborn
- Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu21
- Pedro Calderón de la Barca6
- Henry IV of France53
- Abel Tasman3
- Shah Jahan14
- John Donne33–34
- John Amos Comenius14
- James VI and I40
- Louis XIII of France5
- William Harvey28
- Hugo Grotius23
- Nicolas Poussin12
- Urban VIII38