1590s in England - Births

Births

• 1590
  • 30 January - Lady Anne Clifford, noblewoman (died 1676)
  • May - William Cecil, 17th Baron de Ros (died 1618)
  • 19 August - Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland, soldier (died 1649)
  • William Bradford, leader of Plymouth Colony (died 1657)
  • William Browne, poet (died 1645)
  • Henry Somerset, 1st Marquess of Worcester (died 1646)
• 1591
  • 11 January - Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, English Civil War general (died 1646)
  • July - Anne Hutchinson, puritan preacher (died 1643)
  • 24 August - Robert Herrick, poet (died 1674)
  • Thomas Goffe, dramatist (died 1629)
  • William Lenthall, politician of the Civil War period (died 1662)
  • Frances Howard, Countess of Somerset (died 1632)
• 1592
  • 20 February - Nicholas Ferrar, trader (died 1637)
  • 11 April - Sir John Eliot, statesman (died 1632)
  • May - Francis Quarles, poet (died 1644)
  • 28 August - George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, statesman (died 1628)
  • 5 November - Charles Chauncy, English-born president of Harvard College (died 1672)
  • 6 December - William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle (died 1676)
  • John Hacket, churchman (died 1670)
  • John Jenkins, composer (died 1678)
  • Henry King, poet (died 1669)
• 1593
  • 3 April - George Herbert, poet and orator (died 1633)
  • 4 April - Edward Nicholas, statesman (died 1669)
  • 13 April - Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, statesman (died 1641)
  • 9 August - Izaak Walton, writer (died 1683)
  • Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford (died 1641)
  • Mervyn Tuchet, 2nd Earl of Castlehaven (died 1631)
  • George Radcliffe, politician (died 1657)
• 1594
  • 30 November - John Cosin, churchman (died 1672)
  • John Bramhall, Anglican clergyman and controversialist (died 1663)
  • Peter Oliver, miniaturist (died 1648)
• 1595
  • 5 December - Henry Lawes, musician (died 1662)
  • Thomas Carew, poet (died 1640)
  • Miles Corbet, Puritan politician (died 1662)
  • Henry Herbert, official (died 1673)
  • Thomas May, poet and historian (died 1650)
• 1596
  • September - James Shirley, dramatist (died 1666)
  • Bevil Grenville, royalist soldier (died 1643)
• 1597
  • 21 August - Roger Twysden, antiquarian and royalist (died 1672)
• 1598
  • Ralph Hopton, 1st Baron Hopton, Royalist commander in the English Civil War (died 1652)
  • Marmaduke Langdale, Royalist in the English Civil War (died 1661)
  • Gilbert Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1677)
  • William Strode, parliamentarian (died 1645)
• 1599
  • 25 April - Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland (died 1658)
  • 14 August - Méric Casaubon, classicist (died 1671)
  • 31 October - Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles, statesman and writer (died 1680)
  • John Alden, settler of Plymouth Colony (died 1687)
  • Robert Blake, admiral (died 1657)
  • Lucy Hay, Countess of Carlisle, socialite (died 1660)