In the year 1606, Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon makes the first confirmed sighting of Australia by a European (Feb 26), the first version of the Union Flag is created, to be worn as a national flag by English and Scottish ships (Apr 12), the trial in the gravedigging scandal of Frankenstein begins (the details of which may have inspired the Frankenstein story (Sep 20), Charles IX of Sweden founds the city of Vaasa on the west coast of Finland (Oct 2) - and all these fine people were born:
1606-0101 Eva Ment (B) Dutch culture personality/active as governor’s wife in the Dutch colony of Batavia - Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (1662/56)
1606-0104 Edmund Castell (B) orientalist/writer of a massive lexicon - Tadlow, Cambridgeshire, England (1686/80)
1606-0109 William Dugard* schoolmaster/printer/writer - Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England (1662/56)
1606-0212 John Winthrop the Younger* an early governor of the Connecticut Colony - Groton, Suffolk, England (1676/70)
1606-0227 Laurent de La Hyre* painter - Paris, Kingdom of France (1656/50)
1606-0228 William Davenant* poet/playwright - Oxford, England (1668/62)
1606-0303 Edmund Waller* politician/poet - Coleshill, Buckinghamshire, England (1687/81)
1606-0320 Georg von Derfflinger* field marshall - Neuhofen an der Krem, Archduchy of Austria, Holy Roman Empire (1695/88)
1606-0328 Jacob Masen* German Jesuit priest/historian/dramatist - Jülich (1681/75)
1606-0330 Vincentio Reinieri* mathematician/astronomer/Galilei’s friend - Genoa (1647/41)
1606- 0404 Nicolas Perrot d’Ablancourt* translator - Châlons-en-Champagne, Kingdom of France (1664/58)
1606-0406 Amable de Bourzeys* clergyman/ hellenist/writer - Volvic, Kingdom of France (1672/66)
1606-0414 Juliana of Hesse-Darmstadt* Countess of East Frisia - Darmstadt, Holy Roman Empire (1659/52)
1606-0503 Lorenzo Lippi* painter/poet - Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany (1665/58)
1606-0523 Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz* Catholic scholastic philosopher/ mathematician/writer - Madrid, Spanish Empire (1682/76)
1606-0525 Charles Garnier (B) Jesuit missionary in New France - Paris, Kingdom of France (1649/43)
1606-0606 Pierre Corneille* dramatist/tragedian - Rouen, Normandy, Kingdom of France (1684/78)
1606-0616 Arthur Chichester* Anglo-Irish nobleman/soldier - Ireland (1675/68)
1606-0619 James Hamilton* nobleman/influential political and military leader - Hamilton Palace, Lanarkshire, Scotland (1649/42)
1606-0708 Jean Gamans* German Jesuit hagiographer - Ahrweiler (1684/78)
1606-0715 Rembrandt van Rijn* painter - Leiden, Dutch Republic (1669/63)
1606-0720 Hans Conrad Werdmüller* Swiss military commander/member of the city council of Zürich - Switzerland (1674/68)
1606-0813 Esteban de Aguilar y Zúñiga* theologian/writer - Escalona del Alberche, Spanish Empire (1681/c.75)
1606-0822 Camille de Neufville de Villeroy* archbishop of Lyon - Rome, Papal States (1693/86)
1606-0901 Nicholas Slanning* soldier/ landowner/politician - Hele, Devon, England (1643/36)
1606-0912 John Spelman* politician - Norfolk, England (1663/56)
1606-0922 Li Zicheng* peasant rebel leader/emperor of the short-lived Shun dynasty - Li Jiqian village, Yan’an prefecture, Ming dynasty (1645/c. 38)
1606-0928 William Drake* nobleman/ lawyer/politician - Shardeloes, Buckinghamshire, England (1669/62)
1606-1001 Julian Maunoir* beatified Jesuit priest/the “Apostle of Brittany” - Saint-Georges-de-Reintembault, Kingdom of France (1683/76)
1606-1014 Joan Maetsuycker* lawyer/colonial governor - Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (1678/71)
1606-1016 Ottavio Amigoni* Italian painter - Brescia (1661/55)
1606-1030 Jean-Jacques Bouchard* author of erotic literature - Paris, Kingdom of France (1641/34)
1606-1109 Hermann Conring* German intellectual/contributor to various disciplines - Norden, Holy Roman Empire (1681/75)
1606-1112 Jeanne Mance* nurse/settler of New France/one of the founders of Montreal - Langres, Haute-Marne, France (1673/66)
1606-1201 Johann von Hoverbeck* Prussian diplomat - Aleksandrowice, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1682/75)
1606-1211 Thomas Nott* army officer - London, England (1681/74)
Updated 10.11.2021
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