In the year 1600, Giordano Bruno is burned at the stake for heresy in Rome (Feb 17), Tycho Brahe observes a solar eclipse (Jul 10), and colleague Longomontanus works with him with Moon’s orbital theory (Jul), Tokugawa Ieyasu defeats Ishida Mitsunari and sets the stage for the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate. This begins the Edo period (Oct 21), sumo wrestling becomes a professional sport in Japan - and all these fine people were born:

1600-xxxx  Ivar Johansson Argillander** father of Johan Ivarsson Argillander - Savisaari Manor, Kuopio, Sweden-Finland (c.1680) aby

1600-xxxx Kazimierz Siemienowicz* gunsmith/general of artillery/one of pioneers of rocketry - Raseiniai, GD of Lithuania (c.1651/c.51)

1600-0117 Pedro Calderón de la Barca* dramatist/poet/writer - Madrid, Spain (1681/81)
1600-0122 Elisabet Juliana Banér* (b of Erbach) influential as wife of Swedish Field Marshal Johan Banér - Germany (1640/40)

1600-0206 Matthew Brend* landowner - London, England (1659/59)
1600-0226 Matsudaira Norinaga* 松平 乗寿 daimyo under the early Tokugawa shogunate - Mino Province, Japan (1654/54)

1600-0326 Matthew Marvin Sr.* a founding settler of Hartford and Norwalk, Connecticut - Great Bentley, Essex, England (1678/78)

1600-0715 Jan Cossiers* painter/draughtsman - Antwerp, Spanish Netherlands (1671/70)

1600-0816 Marie Celeste* (b Virginia Galilei) nun/daughter of Galileo Galilei - Padua, Republic of Venice (1634/33)

1600-0905 Loreto Vittori (B) Italian singer (castrato)/composer - Spoleto (1670/69)

1600-11xx John Ogilby* translator/impresario/cartographer - Killemeare, Scotland (1676/76)

1600-1220 Nicolas Sanson* cartographer - Abbeville, France (1667/66)

Updated 14.4.2023-1
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