* 1667 – Francesco Borromini, Swiss architect, designed San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane and Sant ' Agnese in Agone ( b. 1599 )

* 1599 – Méric Casaubon, English scholar ( d. 1671 )

* 1599 – Nine Years ' War: Battle of Curlew Pass – Irish forces led by Hugh Roe O ' Donnell successfully ambush English forces, led by Sir Conyers Clifford, sent to relieve Collooney Castle.

* 1565 – Cornelis de Houtman, Dutch explorer ( d. 1599 )

* 1599 – Henry Wallop, English statesman

* 1599 – Maeda Toshiie, Japanese general ( b. 1538 )

* 1599 – Oliver Cromwell, English military and politician ( d. 1658 )

* 1577 – Beatrice Cenci, Italian noblewoman ( d. 1599 )

Francesco Borromini, byname of Francesco Castelli ( 25 September 1599 – 3 August 1667 ), was an architect from Ticino who, with his contemporaries Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Pietro da Cortona, was a leading figure in the emergence of Roman Baroque architecture.

* 1599 – Pope Alexander VII ( d. 1667 )

* 1538 – Maeda Toshiie, Japanese general ( d. 1599 )

John Alden ( 1599 – September 12, 1687 ) is said to be the first person from the Mayflower to set foot on Plymouth Rock in 1620.

* 1671 – Méric Casaubon, English scholar ( b. 1599 )

* Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg ( 11 November 1599 – 28 March 1655 ).

The Kazakh Khanate is described in historical texts such as the Tarikh-i-Rashidi ( 1541 – 1545 ) by Muhammad Haidar Dughlat, and Zhamigi-at-Tavarikh ( 1598 – 1599 ) by Kadyrgali Kosynuli Zhalayir.

Zanabazar ( 1635 – 1723 ), Zaya Pandita ( 1599 – 1662 ) and Danzanravjaa ( 1803 – 1856 ) are among the most famous Mongolian holy men.

* 1667 – Pope Alexander VII ( b. 1599 )

Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg ( 11 November 1599 – 28 March 1655 ) was a German princess and queen consort of Sweden.

* 1599 – Anthony van Dyck, Flemish painter ( d. 1641 )

* 1660 – Lucy Hay, Countess of Carlisle, English socialite ( b. 1599 )

* October 4 – Francisco Guerrero, Spanish composer ( d. 1599 )

* 1599: Father Francisco Fernandez went to Chandecan in October, and with permission of Maharaja Pratapaditya built a church and a rectory there.

Much of what is known about him comes from Libro de descripción de verdaderos retratos de illustres y memorables varones ( Book of the Description of the True Portraits of Illustrious and Memorable Men ) ( 1599 ) by Francisco Pacheco.

** Francisco Collantes, Spanish painter ( born 1599 )

* August 6 – Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter ( b. 1599 )

Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (; baptised June 6, 1599 – August 6, 1660 ) was a Spanish painter who was the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV.

After outfitting his entire army with new, standardized arms in 1599, Maurice of Nassau made an attempt to recapture Spanish forts built on former Dutch lands.

Notably, Andreas Libavius, in his Alchemia of 1597 mentions a surface-whitened copper aes album by mercury or silver ; but in De Natura Metallorum in Singalarum Part 1, of 1599, the same term was applied to " tin " from the East Indies ( modern-day Indonesia and the Philippines ) and given the Spanish name: tintinaso.

In 1599, the Jivaro destroyed Spanish settlements in eastern Ecuador and killed all the men. Spaniard arquebusier about 1540

* Diego Velázquez ( Spanish, 1599 – 1660 ) Court painter who was possibly the greatest Spanish old master

Joseph ibn Zabara ( end of 12th-beginning of 13th c. CE ), a resident of Barcelona and Catalan speaker, wrote the Sēfer sha ‘ ashū ‘ īm (‘ The Book of Delights ’), in which the author, the narrator, and the protagonist are all Ibn Zabara himself, and in which the episodes are arranged in linear, not cyclical fashion, in a way that anticipates the structure of Spanish picaresque novels such as the anonymous Lazarillo de Tormes ( 1535 ) and Guzmán de Alfarache ( 1599 ) by Mateo Alemán.

In 1599, Russell was named as leader of the forces defending western England in anticipation of a Spanish invasion.

), 1528 – November 8, 1599 ) was a Spanish composer of the Renaissance.

The two most valuable wrecks lost off the Inaguas were treasure-laden Spanish galleons: the Santa Rosa ( 1599 ) and the Infanta ( 1788 ).

The word " boob " stems from the Spanish bobo meaning stupid, which in turn came from the Latin balbus meaning stammering ; the word booby to mean dunce appeared in 1599.

The Rokeby Venus ( also known as The Toilet of Venus, Venus at her Mirror, Venus and Cupid, or La Venus del espejo ) is a painting by Diego Velázquez ( 1599 – 1660 ), the leading artist of the Spanish Golden Age.

But in 1599 he apparently acted as agent for Florence McCarthy to offer his service to the king of Spain, a commission for which his knowledge of Spanish especially fitted him.

* Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez ( 1599 – 1660 ), famous Spanish painter ( not yet very established at the time of the first novels ).

In 1599, the Tairona revolted against the Spanish, apparently because economic and religious pressure from the Spanish had become intolerable.

The Spanish portrait artist, Diego Velázquez ( 1599 – 1660 ), generally acknowledged as one of the greatest painters of all time, was born in Seville, and lived there for his first twenty-two years.

They are fair-skinned and bearded, sharing with the Jeveros a descent from the Spanish women captured by their Indian ancestors at the sack of Sevilla del Oro in 1599.