Editing 1601 (section)

== Births ==
[[File:LouisXIII.jpg|110px|thumbnail|right|[[Louis XIII of France]]]]
[[File:Frans Hals - Portrait of Cornelis Coning.jpg|110px|thumbnail|right|[[Cornelis Coning]]]]

===January–March===
* [[January 8]] – [[Baltasar Gracián y Morales]], Spanish prose writer (d. [[1658]])
* [[January 19]] – [[Guido Cagnacci]], Italian painter (d. [[1663]])
* [[February 4]] – [[Shi Kefa]], Chinese [[Ming Dynasty]] official (d. [[1645]])
* [[February 21]] – [[Carolus Mulerius]], Dutch Hispanist (d. [[1638]])
* [[February 22]] – [[Pierre Chanut]], French diplomat (d. [[1662]])
* [[March 7]] – [[Johann Michael Moscherosch]], German statesman, satirist (d. [[1669]])
* [[March 19]] – [[Alonzo Cano]], Spanish painter (d. [[1667]])
* [[March 20]] – [[Henri, Count of Harcourt]] (d. [[1666]])
* [[March 22]] – [[John Scudamore, 1st Viscount Scudamore]], English politician and Viscount (d. [[1671]])
* [[March 31]] – [[Jakov Mikalja]], Italian linguist and lexicographer (d. [[1654]])

===April–June===
* May – [[Spencer Compton, 2nd Earl of Northampton]] (d. [[1643]])
* [[May 3]] – [[Nathaniel Dickinson (pioneer)|Nathaniel Dickinson]], American settler (d. [[1676]])
* [[May 27]] – [[Antoine Daniel]], Jesuit missionary at Sainte-Marie among the Hurons (d. [[1648]])
* [[June 5]] – [[John Trapp (writer)|John Trapp]], English theologian (d. [[1669]])
* [[June 6]] – [[Hendrick Bloemaert]], Dutch painter (d. [[1672]])
* [[June 21]] – [[Godfrey Henschen]], Jesuit hagiographer (d. [[1681]])
* [[June 23]] – [[Anna Maria of Ostfriesland]], German noblewoman (d. [[1634]])
* [[June 26]] – [[Dorothea of Saxe-Altenburg]], Duchess consort of Saxe-Eisenach (d. [[1675]])

===July–September===
* [[July 17]] – [[Emmanuel Maignan]], French physicist and theologian (d. [[1676]])
* [[July 18]] – [[Philip I, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe]] (1640–1681) (d. [[1681]])
* [[July 20]] – [[Robert Wallop]], English politician (d. [[1667]])
* [[July 23]] – [[János Szalárdi]], Hungarian historian (d. [[1666]])
* [[July 30]]
** [[Anne Eleonore of Hesse-Darmstadt]], Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg by marriage (d. [[1659]])
** [[Richard Onslow (Parliamentarian)|Richard Onslow]], English MP (d. [[1664]])
* [[August 9]] – [[Matthias Sention, Sr.]], Connecticut settler (d. [[1669]])
* [[August 11]] – [[John Evelyn (Parliamentarian)|John Evelyn]], English politician (d. [[1685]])
* [[August 15]] – [[John Campanius]], Swedish Lutheran minister in New Sweden (d. [[1683]])
* [[August 22]] – [[Georges de Scudéry]], French novelist, dramatist and poet (d. [[1667]])
* [[September 13]]
** [[Axel Urup]], Danish general (d. [[1671]])
** [[Jan Brueghel the Younger]], Flemish painter (d. [[1678]])
* [[September 22]] – [[Anne of Austria]], queen of [[Louis XIII of France]] and regent of France (d. [[1666]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Anne of Austria {{!}} queen of France |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Anne-of-Austria |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=29 June 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[September 27]] – King [[Louis XIII of France]] (d. [[1643]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Louis XIII {{!}} king of France |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Louis-XIII |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=9 June 2019 |language=en}}</ref>

===October–December===
* [[October 7]] – [[Florimond de Beaune]], French mathematician and jurist (d. [[1652]])
* [[October 9]] – [[Fra Bonaventura Bisi]], Italian painter (d. [[1659]])
* [[October 24]] – [[Alvise Contarini]], Doge of Venice (d. [[1684]])
* [[October 25]] – [[John Frederick (Lord Mayor)|John Frederick]], Lord Mayor of London (d. [[1685]])
* [[October 26]] – [[Jan Reynst]], Dutch art collector (d. [[1646]])
* [[November 3]] – [[Henri, Duke of Verneuil]], French bishop (d. [[1682]])
* [[November 14]] – [[John Eudes]], French missionary (d. [[1680]])
* [[November 15]] – [[Cecco Bravo]], Italian painter (d. [[1661]])
* [[December 25]] – [[Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha]] (1640–1675) and Saxe-Altenburg (1672–1675) (d. [[1675]])

===Date unknown===
* [[William Coddington]], first governor of Rhode Island (d. [[1678]])
* [[Catherine Lepère]], French midwife and abortion provider (k. [[1679]])
* [[Jacques Gaffarel]], French librarian and astrologer (d. [[1681]])
* [[Cornelis Coning]], Dutch engraver and mayor of Haarlem (d. [[1671]])

===Probable===
* [[William Brooke, 12th Baron Cobham]], English politician (d. [[1643]])
* [[Adrian Scrope]], English regicide (d. [[1660]])
* [[Rose of Turaida]], famous Latvian murder victim (d. [[1620]])
* [[François Tristan l'Hermite]], French dramatist (d. [[1655]])
* [[Edward Somerset, 2nd Marquess of Worcester]] (d. [[1667]])