In the year 1601, Valladolid becomes the capital of the Hispanic Monarchy until Madrid takes over in 1606 (Jan 11), William Shakespeare’s Hamlet has possibly its first performance (spring), Jesuit Matteo Ricci becomes the first European to enter the Forbidden City in Beijing, invited by the Ming Dynasty Emperor, a rainy summer causing a bad harvest leads to severe famine in Russia and the Baltic Sea countries - and all these fine people were born:
1601-0108 Baltasar Gracián* Jesuit prose writer/philosopher - Belmonte de Gracián, Aragon (1658/57)
1601-0119 Guido Cagnacci* Italian painter - Santarcangelo di Romagna (1663/62)
1601-0204 Shi Kefa* government official/calligrapher - Kaifen, Henan, Ming Dynasty (1645/44)
1601-0221 Carolus Mulerius* grammarian/ Hispanist - Harlingen, Dutch Republic (1638/37)
1601-0222 Pierre Chanut* civil servant/diplomat - Riom, Kingdom of France (1662/61)
1601-0307 Johann Michael Moscherosch* satirist/ educator/statesman - Willstätt, Holy Roman Empire (1669/68)
1601-0319 Alonso Cano* painter/ sculptor/architect - Granada, Kingdom of Granada, Crown of Castile (1667/66)
1601-0323 John Booker* astrologer/almanac maker - Manchester, England (1667)
1601-0331 Jakov Mikalja* Italian linguist/lexicographer - Peschici, Apulia, Kingdom of Naples (1654/53)
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1601-0503 Nathaniel Dickinson* pioneering settler in Hadley, Massachusetts/ancestor of Emily Dickinson and Amelia Earhart - Billingborough, Lincolnshire, England (1676/75)
1601-0527 Antoine Daniel* Jesuit missionary in North America - Dieppe, Normandy, Kingdom of France (1648/47)
1601-0605 John Trapp* theologian/ Bible commentator - Croome D’Abitot, Worcestershire, England (1669/68)
1601-0606 Hendrick Bloemaert* painter/ poet - Utrecht, Dutch Republic (1672/71)
1601-0621 Godfrey Henschen* Jesuit hagiographer - Venray, Limburg, the Low countries (1681/80)
1601-0717 Emmanuel Maignan* physicist/Catholic Minimite theologian - Toulouse, Kingdom of France (1676/75)
1601-0723 János Szalárdi* historian - Szatmár County. Kingdom of Hungary (1666/65)
1601-0730 Richard Onslow* politician - England (1664/62)
1601-0811 John Evelyn* politician - England (1685/83)
1601-0815 John Campanius* Lutheran minister in New Sweden - Stockholm, Kingdom of Sweden (1683/82)
1601-0822 Georges de Scudéry* novelist/ dramatist/poet - Le Havre, Normandy, Kingdom of France (1667/65)
1601-0913 Jan Brueghel the Younger* Flemish painter - Antwerp (1678/76)
1601-0913 Axel Urup* military engineer/commander - Vapnø, Halland, Denmark (1671/69)
1601-0922 Anne of Austria* Queen of France as the wife of King Louis XIII - Benavente Palace, Valladolid, Spanish Empire (1666/64)
1601-0927 Louis XIII* King of France/son of Henry IV - Château de Fontainebleau, Kingdom of France (1643/41)
1601-1007 Florimond de Beaune* jurist/ mathematician/an early follower of René Descartes - Blois, Kingdom of France (1652/50)
1601-1009 Fra Bonaventura Bisi* painter - Bologna, Papal States (1659/58)
1601-1025 John Frederick* merchant/ MP/Lord Mayor of London - England (1685/83)
1601-1026 Jan Reynst* merchant/ art collector - Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (1646/44)
1601-1114 John Eudes* Catholic priest/missionary - Ri, Normandy, Kingdom of France (1680/78)
1601-1115 Cecco Bravo* (b Francesco Montelatici) Italian painter - Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany (1661/59)
1601-1225 Ernest I* Duke of Saxe-Gotha - Attenburg, Duchy of Saxe-Weimar, Holy Roman Empire (1675/73)
Updated 14.1.2022
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