King of Poland and Sweden. Probable first performance of William Shakespeare's plays Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream in London. Many sugar plantations in São Tomé are destroyed by a large slave uprising Births January–June January 15 – Henry Carey, 2nd Earl of Monmouth, English politician (d. 1661) January 22 – George Rudolf of Liegnitz, Polish noble (d. 1653) January 23 – Herman Fortunatus, Margrave of Baden-Rodemachern (d. 1665) February 9 – Hedwig of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Duchess consort of Pomerania (d. 1650) March 19 – Carlo de' Medici, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1666) March 21 – Ferdinando Ughelli, Italian Cistercian monk and church historian (d. 1670) March 23 – Bevil Grenville, English royalist soldier (d. 1643) April 5 – John Wilson, English composer (d. 1674) April 6 Henri II d'Orléans, Duke of Longueville, Prince of France (d. 1663) Pieter de Molijn, Dutch painter (d. 1661) April 12 – Miles Hobart, English politician (d. 1632) April 30 Anne Lykke, Danish noble (d. 1641) Henri II de Montmorency, French nobleman and military commander (d. 1632) May 1 – Lars Kagg, Swedish count and military Officer (d. 1661) May 3 – Aloysius Gottifredi, Italian Jesuit (d. 1652) June 9 – King Wladislaus IV of Poland (d. 1648) June 10 – Aegidius Gelenius, German heraldist (d. 1656) June 13 John Holles, 2nd Earl of Clare, English politician and Earl (d. 1666) Jan Marek Marci, Bohemian physician and scientist (d. 1667) June 19 – Guru Har Gobind, the Sixth Sikh Guru (d. 1644) June 24 – Ulderico Carpegna, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1679) July–December July 1 – Albrycht Stanisław Radziwiłł, Polish nobleman (d. 1656) July 3 – John Gurdon, English politician (d. 1679) July 4 – Félix Castello, Spanish artist (d. 1651) July 9 – Anna Amalia of Baden-Durlach, Regent of Nassau-Saarbrücken (d. 1651) July 10 – Charles Drelincourt, French Protestant divine (d. 1669) July 31 – Philipp Wolfgang, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (d. 1641) August 29 – Joachim Ernest, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön (1622–1671) (d. 1671) August 31 – Georges Fournier, French Jesuit mathematician and geographer (d. 1652) October 18 – Lucas van Uden, Dutch painter (d. 1672) October 30 – Gaj Singh of Marwar, Raja of Marwar Kingdom (r (d. 1638) November 11 – Martin Bauzer, Gorizian Jesuit priest and writer (d. 1668) November 13 – George William, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1640) November 18 Niklaus Dachselhofer, Swiss politician (d. 1670) Pietro Desani, Italian