five year run of poor harvests, largely caused by the weather, a pattern typical of the last third of the century. This causes famine throughout Europe, which leads to food riots in Britain. Serb Uprising of 1596–97 Births January–June January 1 – Elizabeth Ribbing, Swedish noble (d. 1662) January 13 – Jan van Goyen, Dutch painter (d. 1656) February 2 Jacob van Campen, Dutch artist and architect of the Golden Age (d. 1657) Carew Mildmay, Member of the Parliament of England (d. 1676) February 3 – Brás Garcia de Mascarenhas, soldier, poet and writer (d. 1656) February 8 – Louis Giry, French lawyer, classical scholar (d. 1665) February 27 – Johan Stiernhöök, Swedish lawyer (d. 1675) March 1 – Duke Frederick of Saxe-Weimar, German prince and colonel (d. 1622) March 10 – Princess Maria Elizabeth of Sweden (d. 1618) March 11 – Isaac Elzevir, Dutch printer and publisher (d. 1651) March 16 – Ebba Brahe, Swedish countess (d. 1674) March 24 – Elizabeth of Hesse-Kassel, Duchess of Mecklenburg-Gütsrow (d. 1625) March 26 – Catherine Henriette de Bourbon, French noble (d. 1663) March 31 – René Descartes, French philosopher and mathematician (d. 1650) April 8 – Juan van der Hamen, Spanish artist (d. 1631) April 11 – Moritz Gudenus, German Catholic preacher (d. 1680) May 9 – Abraham van Diepenbeeck, Dutch painter (d. 1675) May 21 – John Louis II, Count of Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein (d. 1605) June 5 – Peter Wtewael, Dutch painter (d. 1660) June 6 – Michel Particelli d'Emery, French politician (d. 1650) June 23 – Johan Banér, Swedish field marshal in the Thirty Years' War (d. 1641) June 27 – Maximilian, Prince of Dietrichstein, German prince (d. 1655) June 29 – Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (d. 1680) July–December July 1 – Bertuccio Valiero, Doge of Venice (d. 1658) July 12 – Michael I of Russia, Russian Tsar (d. 1645) August 10 – Lorentz Eichstadt, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1660) August 26 – Frederick V, Elector Palatine (d. 1632) August 18 – Jean Bolland, Belgian Jesuit, Founder of the Bollandist (d. 1665) August 19 – Elizabeth Stuart, later Queen of Bohemia (d. 1662) September James Shirley, English dramatist (d. 1666) Moses Amyraut, French Protestant theologian (d. 1664) September 3 – Nicola Amati, Italian luthier from Cremona (d. 1684) September 4 – Constantijn Huygens, Dutch Golden Age poet and composer (d. 1687) September 7 – John Casimir, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau