Events
Births
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February 6 - Christopher Marlowe, English poet and dramatist
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February 15 - Galileo Galilei, Tuscan astronomer, father of the scientific method, born in Pisa (d. 1642)
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March 9 - David Fabricius, Frisian astronomer.
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April 23 - William Shakespeare, born in Stratford-upon-Avon, later famous poet and dramatist
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September 24 - William Adams, English navigator and Japanese samurai
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Kryštof Harant z Polžic a Bezdružic, Bohemian composer, nobleman and leader of Protestant rebellion, beheaded 1621
Deaths