ON THIS DAY
Born in 1588
45 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Thomas Hobbes
economist, philosopher
- John Winthrop
theologian, jurist
- Marin Mersenne
physicist, mathematician
- William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset
politician
- Moulay Ali Cherif
founder
- Ole Worm
prehistorian, physician
- Robert Filmer
philosopher, writer
- Marina Mniszech
regent
- Constance of Austria
consort
- Henri, Prince of Condé
bishop, Catholic priest
- Ligdan Khan
khan
- Hendrick ter Brugghen
painter
- Étienne Pascal
mathematician, tax collector
- Jan Janssonius
celestial cartographer, visual artist
- Isaac Beeckman
naturalist, philosopher
- Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet
writer, salonnière
- Thomas Ravenscroft
editor, music theorist
- Margherita Aldobrandini
politician
- Nicholas Lanier
singer, composer
- Nicolas Régnier
merchant, painter
- Pierre Séguier
jurist, politician
- Duke Adolf Friedrich I, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Lutheran pastor
- Luke Wadding
historian, university teacher
- Johann Heinrich Alsted
musicologist, theologian
- Claudius Salmasius
jurist, classical philologist
- Johann von Aldringen
military personnel
- Prince Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy
politician
- François de La Mothe Le Vayer
writer, philosopher
- Cassiano dal Pozzo
scientist, classical scholar
- Louise Marguerite of Lorraine
aristocrat, writer
- Alessandro Varotari
painter
- Nicolaes Eliaszoon Pickenoy
designer, painter
- Jacqueline de Bueil
mistress
- Claude Deruet
painter
- Johannes Maccovius
university teacher, professor
- Herman Hugo
historian, Catholic priest
- Szymon Starowolski
historian, writer
- Johann Andreas Herbst
composer, music theorist
- Kasper Doenhoff
politician
- Bartolomeo Ambrosini
physician, botanist
- Benedetto Ubaldi
Catholic priest, Catholic bishop
- Wolrad IV of Waldeck-Eisenberg
aristocrat