1607 (MDCVII)
was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1607th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 607th year of the 2nd millennium, the 7th year of the 17th century, and the 8th year of the 1600s decade. As of the start of 1607, the Gregorian calendar was
10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
Births
- January 10 – Isaac Jogues, Jesuit missionary to Native Americans (died 1646)
- March 20 – Lady Alice Boyle, Irish noblewoman (died 1667)
- March 24 – Michiel de Ruyter, Dutch admiral (died 1676)
- July 13 – Václav Hollar, Bohemian etcher (died 1677)
- November 1 – Georg Philipp Harsdorffer, German poet (died 1658)
- November 15 – Madeleine de Scudéry, French writer (died 1701)
- November 26 – John Harvard, American clergyman (died 1638)
- Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll (died 1661)
- Thomas Barlow, Bishop of Lincoln (died 1691)
- John Boys, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (died 1664)
- John Dixwell, English judge and regicide (died 1689)
- Jan Kazimierz Krasinski, Polish nobleman (died 1669)
- Claude de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French courtier (died 1693)
- Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton (died 1667)
- Yagyu Jubei Mitsuyoshi, Japanese samurai (died 1650)
- Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla, Spanish dramatist (died 1660)