and to pay low customs duties on French imports and exports. Akbar founds Fatehpur Sikri, to honor the Muslim holy man Shaikh Salim Chisti, who has foretold the birth of Akbar's son and heir, Jahangir. Births January 20 – Heribert Rosweyde, Jesuit hagiographer (d. 1629) January 22 – Lucio Massari, Italian painter (d. 1633) February 13 – Johann Reinhard I, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (d. 1625) March 28 – Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma (d. 1622) April 10 – Countess Emilia of Nassau, German countess (d. 1629) April 15 – Joan Shakespeare, William Shakespeare's sister (d. 1646) April 16 – John Davies, English poet and lawyer (d. 1626) May 20 – Juan de la Cerda, 6th Duke of Medinaceli, Spanish noble (d. 1607) June 1 – Sophia of Holstein-Gottorp, Regent of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1603–1608) (d. 1634) June 30 – Hedwig of Hesse-Kassel, countess consort of Schaumburg (d. 1644) July 3 – Thomas Richardson, English politician and judge (d. 1635) July 19 – Conrad Vorstius, Dutch theologian (d. 1622) July 30 – Karl I, Prince of Liechtenstein (d. 1627) August 31 – Jahangir, Mughal emperor (d. 1627) September – Arthur Lake, English bishop, a translator of the King James Bible (d. 1626) September 5 – Georg Friedrich of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein-Weikersheim, officer and amateur poet (d. 1645) September 9 – Joachim Andreas von Schlick, Czech leader (d. 1621) September 23 – Tachibana Ginchiyo, female samurai leader of the Tachibana clan in Japan (d. 1602) September 24 – Ernst of Schaumburg, Count of Holstein-Pinneberg and Schaumburg (1601–1622) (d. 1622) September 27 – John Percy, English priest (d. 1641) October 13 – Claude de Bullion, French Minister of Finance (d. 1640) October 14 – Giambattista Marino, Italian poet (d. 1625) November 5 – Nils Turesson Bielke, Swedish politician (d. 1639) November 11 – Martin Ruland the Younger, German alchemist (d. 1611) November 16 – Paul Sartorius, German composer (d. 1609) November 18 – Antonio Marcello Barberini, Italian cardinal and the younger brother of Maffeo Barberini (d. 1646) November 24 – Francis Ashley, English politician (d. 1635) December 15 – Muzio Oddi, Italian mathematician (d. 1639) December 18 – Jakob Hassler, German composer (d. 1622) December 22 – Étienne Martellange, French architect (d. 1641) December 31 – Anna de' Medici, Tuscan princess (d. 1584) date unknown Guillén de Castro y Bellvis, Spanish dramatist (d. 1631) Tobias Hume, English composer (d. 1645) William Monson, British admiral (d. 1643)