In the year 1590, Henry IV of France unsuccessfully attempts to besiege Paris (May), Anne of Denmark is crowned queen consort of Scotland (May 17), two women are burned as witches after witch trials in Kronberg, Denmark (Sep) which prompts the North Berwick witch trials in Scotland, confessions extracted by torture in Old Tolbooth in Edinburgh (Dec 7), compound microscope is invented, Japan is united by Toyotomi Hideyoshi - and and all these fine people were born:

1590-xxxx Urbain Grandier* Catholic priest/burned at the stake after being convicted of witchcraft - Bouère, Kingdom of France (1634/c.44)
1590-xxxx Michell von Jordan* (b Jordan) Swedish colonel w German roots - Swedish Livonia (1652/c. 62)

1590-0109 Simon Vouet* painter - Paris, Kingdom of France (1649/59)
1590-0120 Edward Convers* early Puritan settler in the Massachusetts Bay Colony/miller/surveyor - England (1663/73)

1590-03xx Roger Ludlow*  lawyer/colonist in New England - Dinton, Wiltshire, England (1664)
1590-0318 Manuel de Faria e Sousa* Portuguese historian/poet- Pombeiro (1649/59)

1590-0407 John Upton* politician - Lupton, Devon, England (1641/51)

1590-0503 Franco Burgersdijk* Dutch logician - De Lier (1635/44)

1590-0609 Caspar Sibelius* Dutch protestant minister - Elberfeld (1658/67)

1590-0703 Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana* Italian singer/ organist/composer - (1662/71)

1590-09xx María de Zayas* writer - Madrid, Spanish Empire (16xx)

1590-1011 William Pynchon* colonist/fur trader/best known as the founder of Springfield, Massachusetts - Springfield, Essex, England (1662/72)

1590-1109 Martin Stodius* theologian/ translator of the Bible into Finnish - Turku, Sweden-Finland (1675/84)

1590-1214 John West* colonial Governor of Virginia - Testwood, England (1659)

Updated 27.5.2022
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