1604 in England - Births

Births

• 1600
  • February - Edmund Calamy the Elder, presbyterian (died 1666)
  • November John Ogilby, writer and cartographer (died 1676)
  • 19 November - King Charles I of England (died 1649)
  • Sir Richard Grenville, 1st Baronet, Royalist leader (died 1658)
  • Peter Heylin, ecclesiastical writer (died 1662)
  • William Prynne, puritan politician (died 1669)
  • Brian Walton, divine and scholar (died 1661)
  • probable date - Dud Dudley, ironmaster (died 1684)
• 1601
  • May - Spencer Compton, 2nd Earl of Northampton (died 1643)
  • Adrian Scrope, regicide (died 1660)
  • Edward Somerset, 2nd Marquess of Worcester (died 1667)
• 1602
  • 29 March - John Lightfoot, churchman and rabbinical scholar (died 1675)
  • April - William Lawes, composer and musician (died 1645)
  • 1 May - William Lilly, astrologer (died 1681)
  • 12 October - William Chillingworth, churchman (died 1644)
  • 13 October - Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of Northumberland, military leader (died 1668)
  • 18 December - Simonds d'Ewes, antiquarian and politician (died 1650)
  • John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton (died 1678)
  • John Bradshaw, English judge and regicide (died 1659)
  • John Greaves, mathematician and antiquary (died 1652)
  • Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester (died 1671)
  • Henry Marten, regicide (died 1680)
  • Dudley North, 4th Baron North (died 1677)
  • Owen Feltham, religious writer (died 1668)
• 1603
  • 21 January - Shackerley Marmion, dramatist (died 1639)
  • 27 January - Harbottle Grimston, politician (died 1685)
  • 18 March - Simon Bradstreet, colonial magistrate (died 1697)
  • 11 July - Kenelm Digby, privateer and alchemist (died 1665)
  • 21 December - Roger Williams, theologian and colonist (died 1684)
  • John Ashburnham, Member of Parliament (died 1671)
  • Daniel Blagrave, Member of Parliament (died 1668)
• 1604
  • 3 August - John Eliot, puritan missionary (died 1690)
  • 13 September - William Brereton, soldier and politician (died 1661)
  • November - Jasper Mayne, dramatist (died 1672)
  • Isaac Ambrose, Puritan divine (died 1664)
  • Edward Pococke, Orientalist and biblical scholar (died 1691)
• 1605
  • June - Thomas Randolph, poet and dramatist (died 1635)
  • August - Bulstrode Whitelocke, lawyer and parliamentarian (died 1675)
  • 8 August - Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, colonial Governor of Maryland (died 1675)
  • 18 August - Henry Hammond, churchman (died 1660)
  • 12 September - William Dugdale, antiquary (died 1686)
  • 19 October - Thomas Browne physician and philosopher (died 1682)
  • 4 November - William Habington, poet (died 1654)
  • William Berkeley, governor of Virginia (died 1677)
  • John Gauden, bishop and writer (died 1662)
  • Thomas Nabbes, dramatist (died c. 1645)
  • Francis Willoughby, 5th Baron Willoughby of Parham (died 1666)
  • William Goffe, parliamentarian (died 1679)
• 1606
  • 28 February - William Davenant, poet and playwright (died 1668)
  • March - Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester (died 1680)
  • 3 March - Edmund Waller, poet (died 1687)
  • 27 September - Richard Busby, clergyman (died 1695)
  • Leonard Calvert, governor of Baltimore (died 1647)
  • Edmund Castell, orientalist (died 1685)
  • Thomas Harrison, puritan soldier and Fifth Monarchist (died 1660)
  • Thomas Herbert, traveller and historian (died 1682)
  • John Robartes, 1st Earl of Radnor (died 1685)
  • Thomas Washbourne, clergyman and poet (died 1687)
• 1607
  • 26 November - John Harvard, clergyman and colonist (died 1638)
  • Thomas Barlow, Bishop of Lincoln (died 1691)
  • John Boys, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (died 1664)
  • John Dixwell,judge and regicide (died 1689)
  • Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton (died 1667)
• 1608
  • June - Richard Fanshawe, diplomat (died 1666)
  • 14 July - George Goring, Lord Goring, Royalist soldier (died 1657)
  • 6 December - George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, soldier (died 1670)
  • 9 December - John Milton, poet (died 1674)
  • John Desborough, soldier and politician (died 1680)
  • Thomas Fuller, churchman and historian (died 1661)
  • Edward Rainbowe, clergyman and a preacher (died 1684)
  • John Tradescant the younger, botanist and gardener (died 1662)
• 1609
  • 10 February - John Suckling, poet (died 1642)
  • 18 February - Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, historian and statesman (died 1674)
  • 29 March - Sarah Boyle, noblewoman (died 1633)
  • 8 October - John Clarke, physician (died 1676)
  • 26 October - William Sprague, co-founder of Charlestown, Massachusetts (died 1675)
  • 1 November - Matthew Hale, Lord Chief Justice (died 1676)
  • 24 December - Philip Warwick, writer and politician (died 1683)
  • Samuel Cooper, miniature painter (died 1672)
  • Captain John Underhill, soldier and colonist (died 1672)
  • Gerrard Winstanley, Protestant religious reformer (died 1676)