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This page is about the year. For the homonymous comic-book, see 1602 (comic)
Events
Births
- February 14 - Francesco Cavalli, Italian composer (died 1676)
- February 18 - Per Brahe (the younger), Swedish soldier and statesman (died 1680)
- March 29 - John Lightfoot, English churchman and rabbinical scholar (died 1675)
- May 1 - William Lilly, English astrologer (died 1681)
- May 26 - Philippe de Champaigne, French painter (died 1674)
- July 14 - Jules Cardinal Mazarin, French statesman (died 1661)
- August 8 - Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician (died 1675)
- August 31 - Amalia von Solms, countess of Solms-Braunfels (died 1675)
- October 12 - William Chillingworth, English churchman (died 1644)
- November 20 - Otto von Guericke, German inventor and Mayor of Magdeburg (died 1686)
- November 22 - Elisabeth of France, queen of Philip IV of Spain (died 1644)
- December 7 - Delano family, Plymouth Colony settler (died 1681)
- December 18 - Simonds d'Ewes, English antiquarian and politician (d. 1650)
- Robert Baillie, Scottish divine and historical writer (died 1662)
- John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton (died 1678)
- John Bradshaw, English judge and regicide (died 1659)
- Caesar, duc de Choiseul, French marshal and diplomatist (died 1675)
- Owen Feltham, English religious writer (died 1668)
- John Greaves, English mathematician and antiquary (died 1652)
- Jean-Baptiste Budes, Comte de Guébriant, marshal of France (died 1643)
- William Lawes, English composer and musician
- Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester (died 1671)
- Henry Marten, English regicide (died 1680)
- Théodore Moret, Belgian mathematician
- Dudley North, 4th Baron North (died 1677)
- Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of Northumberland, English military leader (died 1668)
- Richard Martin fitz Oliver, Galway lawyer and a member of the Catholic Confederates of Ireland (died 1648)
- Katarzyna Ostrogska, Polish noblewoman (died 1642)
- Antoine de l'Age, duc de Puylaurens, French courtier (died 1635)
- Salomon van Ruisdael, Dutch landscape painter (died 1670)
- Tokugawa Yorinobu, Japanese nobleman (died 1671)
Deaths
- February 13 - Alexander Nowell, English clergyman (born 1507)
- February 19 - Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercoeur, French soldier (b. 1558)
- March 11 - Emilio de' Cavalieri, Italian composer
- March 22 - Agostino Carracci, Italian painter and graphical artist (born 1557)
- September 25 - Caspar Peucer, German reformer (born 1525)
- October 30 - Jean-Jacques Boissard, French antiquary and Latin poet (born 1528)
- December 1 - Kobayakawa Hideaki, Japanese samurai and warlord (born 1582)
- Jacopo Corsi, Italian composer (born 1561)
- Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, Spanish explorer (born 1532)
- Anthony Holborne, English composer (born 1550)
- Thomas Morley, English composer (born 1557)
- Jean Pithou, French lawyer and author (born 1524)
- Martin Ruland, German alchemist
