Famous Birthdays Mar 3 Edmund Waller, English poet (Song: Go, lovely rose) and politician, born in Coleshill, Buckinghamshire, England (d. 1687) Born in 1606 Famous Deaths Mar 2 St. Nicholas Owen (martyr), one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales, executed at about 43 [birthdate uncertain] Mar 23 Justus Lipsius [Joost Lips], Flemish humanist and classical scholar (founding father of Neostoicism), dies at 58 Feb 1606 History by Year Apr 1606 Historical Figures Authors Civil Rights Activists Inventors Kings Revolutionaries Scientists