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Who Was Alive in 1606
9 of 328 historical figures were alive in 1606
Tokugawa Ieyasu
Age 63
1543–1616 · Politics & Leadership
Founder of Japan's Tokugawa shogunate
Miguel de Cervantes
Age 59
1547–1616 · Literature
Author of Don Quixote
Galileo Galilei
Age 42
1564–1642 · Science & Invention
Father of modern observational astronomy
William Shakespeare
Age 42
1564–1616 · Literature
Greatest playwright in the English language
Caravaggio
Age 35
1571–1610 · Art
Revolutionary Baroque painter
Johannes Kepler
Age 35
1571–1630 · Science & Invention
Laws of planetary motion
René Descartes
Age 10
1596–1650 · Philosophy & Thought
"I think, therefore I am"
Oliver Cromwell
Age 7
1599–1658 · Politics & Leadership
Lord Protector of England
Rembrandt
Age 0
1606–1669 · Art
Dutch Golden Age master painter
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