and European riflemen, with detailed illustrations of their firearms, appear in Zhao Shizhen's book Shenqipu in this year, during the Ming Dynasty of China. The Spanish establish themselves in El Piñal, a trading port on the coast of China in the Pearl River Delta. New Mexico is founded as the Kingdom of Nuevo México as part of the Viceroyalty of New Spain. The Kingdom eventually became a territory of Mexico, later the New Mexico Territory in the United States, and then the U.S. State of New Mexico. Births January–March January 23 – François Mansart, French architect (d. 1666) March 12 – Guillaume Colletet, French writer (d. 1659) March 13 – Johannes Loccenius, German historian (d. 1677) March 15 – Redemptus of the Cross, Portuguese Carmelite lay brother and martyr (d. 1638) March 25 Ralph Corbie, Irish Jesuit (d. 1644) Robert Trelawney, English politician (d. 1643) March 26 – Sir William Lewis, 1st Baronet, English politician (d. 1677) April–June April 9 – Johann Crüger, German composer of well-known hymns (d. 1662) April 11 – William, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, German nobleman (d. 1662) April 17 – Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Italian astronomer (d. 1671) April 23 – Maarten Tromp, officer and later admiral in the Dutch navy (d. 1653) April 28 – Francis Leigh, 1st Earl of Chichester, English politician (d. 1653) May 23 – Claude Mellan, French painter and engraver (d. 1688) June 4 – Åke Henriksson Tott, Swedish soldier and politician (d. 1640) June 19 – Gilbert Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1663 until his death (d. 1677) July–September July 6 – Kirsten Munk, Danish noble, spouse of King Christian IV of Denmark (d. 1658) July 29 – Henricus Regius, Dutch philosopher (d. 1679) July 31 – Alessandro Algardi, Italian high-Baroque sculptor active in Rome (d. 1654) August 7 – Georg Stiernhielm, Swedish civil servant (d. 1672) September 11 – Imre Thurzó, Hungarian noble (d. 1621) September 23 – Eleonora Gonzaga, Holy Roman Empress, married to Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1655) September 24 – Giovanni Francesco Busenello, Italian librettist (d. 1659) September 27 – Robert Blake, English admiral (d. 1657) October–December October 14 – Nicolas de Neufville de Villeroy, Marshal of France (d. 1685) October 17 – Jørgen Knudsen Urne, Danish noble (d. 1642) October 19 – Isaac Commelin, Dutch historian (d. 1676) October 27 – Lars Stigzelius, Swedish Lutheran archbishop (d. 1676) November 3 – Christian I, Count