What Happened in March 1606

Famous Birthdays

  • Mar 3 Edmund Waller, English poet (Song: Go, lovely rose) and politician, born in Coleshill, Buckinghamshire, England (d. 1687)

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