For the Mark Twain work, see 1601 (Mark Twain).

Events

• February 8 - Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, rebels against Elizabeth I of England - revolt is quickly crushed
• February 25 - Robert Devereux beheaded

• Jesuit Matteo Ricci arrives in China
• Bad harvest in Russia due to rainy summer
• Dutch troops drive Portuguese from Málaga
• Start of Siege of Kinsale, Ireland -- the siege started in the Autumn of 1601 and ended in the Battle of Kinsale, which happened on 3 January 1602 according to the Gregorian Calendar used by the Irish and Spanish forces in the battle, although, for the English who were still using the old Julian Calendar, the date of the battle was 24 December 1601

Births

• January 8 - Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Spanish prose writer (died 1658)
• May 2 - Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit scholar (died 1680)
• August 17 - Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician (d. 1665)
• August 22 - Georges de Scudéry, French novelist, dramatist and poet (died 1667)
• September 22 - Anna of Austria, queen of Louis XIII of France and regent (died 1666)
• September 27 - King Louis XIII of France (died 1643)
• Jan Brueghel the Younger, Flemish painter (died 1678)
• William Coddington, first governor of Rhode Island (died 1678)
• Jacques Gaffarel, French librarian and astrologer (died 1681)
• Baltasar Gracián, Spanish Jesuit philosopher and writer (died 1658)
• François Tristan l'Hermite, French dramatist (died 1655)
• Spencer Compton, 2nd Earl of Northampton (died 1643)
• Adrian Scrope, English regicide (died 1660)
• Edward Somerset, 2nd Marquess of Worcester (died 1667)

See also Category:1601 births.

Deaths

• February 25 - Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, English politician (born 1566)
• April 10 - Mark Alexander Boyd, Scottish poet and soldier of fortune (born 1562)
• May 19 - Costanzo Porta, Italian composer (born 1528)
• August 9 - Mihai Viteazul, Prince of Wallachia (born 1558)
• October 24 - Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer (born 1546)
• Scipione Ammirato, Italian historian (born 1531)
• Girolamo Dalla Casa, Italian composer
• John Farmer, English composer (born 1570)
• Claude Fauchet, French historian and antiquary (born 1530)
• Joris Hoefnagel, Dutch painter and engraver (born 1545)
• Juan de Fuca, Greek explorer
• Thomas North, English translator of Plutarch (born 1535)
• Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, English statesman (born 1534)
• John Shakespeare, English glover and farmer, father of William Shakespeare (born 1529)
• Ogawa Suketada, Japanese daimyo (born 1549)

See also Category:1601 deaths.

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