1606

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)