* Adrian von Mynsicht ( 1603 – 1638 ), German alchemist

Ahmed I ( Ottoman Turkish: احمد اول Aḥmed-i evvel, ) or Ahmed Bakhti ( April 18, 1590 – November 22, 1617 ) was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1603 until his death in 1617.

He succeeded his father Mehmed III ( 1595 – 1603 ) in 1603 at age 13.

Abel Janszoon Tasman (; 1603 – 1659 )

* 1603 – Michel le Tellier, French statesman ( d. 1685 )

* Principality and Duchy of Anhalt-Bernburg: 1252 – 1468 and 1603 – 1863

* Principality and Duchy of Anhalt-Köthen: 1396 – 1561 and 1603 – 1847

* Principality and Duchy of Anhalt-Dessau 1396 – 1561 and 1603 – 1863

* Principality of Anhalt-Plötzkau 1544 – 1553 and 1603 – 1665

* 1651 – Lennart Torstenson, Swedish soldier and engineer ( b. 1603 )

In early 1578, the regency was taken over by his cousin, George Frederick of Brandenburg-Kulmbach ( 1539 – 1603 ).

Blackadder II is set in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I ( 1558 – 1603 ), played by Miranda Richardson.

Historically, this proceeded from the labours of Jean de Launoy ( 1603 – 1678 ), " le dénicheur des saints ", and Louis Sébastien le Nain de Tillemont, who had shown the falsity of numerous lives of the saints ; while theologically it was produced by the Port Royal school, which led men to dwell more on communion with God as contrasted with the invocation of the saints.

Kanem-Bornu peaked during the reign of the outstanding statesman Mai Idris Aluma ( c. 1571 – 1603 ).

Of the famine in Povolzhie ( 1921 – 1922 ) he wrote: " That horrible famine was up to cannibalism, up to consuming children by their own parents — the famine, which Russia had never known even in Time of Troubles 1601 – 1603 ..."

The Hindu social code was later set up in Gorkha by Ram Shah ( 1603 – 36 ).

* 1603 – William Gilbert, English physicist and physician ( b. 1544 )

* 1603 – Franciscus Vieta, French mathematician ( b. 1540 )

* November 4 – Johannes Cocceius, Dutch theologian ( b. 1603 )

Johannes Cocceius ( or Coccejus ) ( August 9, 1603 – November 4, 1669 ), Dutch theologian, was born at Bremen.

* April 1 – Roger Williams, English theologian and colonist ( b. 1603 )

Roger Williams ( c. 1603 – between January and March 1683 ) was an English Protestant theologian who was an early proponent of religious freedom and the separation of church and state.

* April 1-Roger Williams, theologian ( born 1603 )

Jacobus Arminius ( October 10, 1560 – October 19, 1609 ), the Latinized name of the Dutch theologian Jakob Hermanszoon from the Protestant Reformation period, served from 1603 as professor in theology at the University of Leiden.

* Roger Williams ( theologian ) ( 1603 – 1683 ), English theologian, co-founder of Rhode Island

* Stephan Praetorius ( 1536 – 1603 ), theologian

* 1603 – Joseph of Cupertino, Italian saint ( d. 1663 )

* 1603 – Harbottle Grimston, English politician ( d. 1685 )

* 1603 – Kenelm Digby, English courtier and diplomat ( d. 1665 )

* 1566 – Mehmed III, Ottoman Emperor ( d. 1603 )

* 1603 – Simon Bradstreet, British colonial magistrate ( d. 1693 )

* 1603 – King John IV of Portugal, composer, patron of music and the arts, and musicologist ( d. 1656 )

* 1603 – Augustyn Kordecki, Polish prior ( d. 1673 )

* 1533 – Elizabeth I of England ( d. 1603 )

* May 26 – Mehmed III, Ottoman Emperor ( d. 1603 )

** Hugh Roe O ' Donnell, Irish chieftain and rebel ( d. 1603 )

** Aleksander Ostrogski, Polish nobleman ( d. 1603 )

** François Viète, French mathematician ( d. 1603 )

** Philippe de Monte, Flemish composer ( d. 1603 )

* June 6 – Andrea Cesalpino, Italian philosopher, physician, and botanist ( d. 1603 )

** Krzysztof Mikołaj " the Lightning " Radziwiłł, Polish nobleman ( d. 1603 )

* May 24 – William Gilbert, English scientist ( d. 1603 )

** Ikeda Tomomasa, Japanese military commander ( d. 1603 )

* September 29 – Joan Terès i Borrull, viceroy of Catalonia ( d. 1603 )

* April 5 – George Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( d. 1603 )

* September 7 – Queen Elizabeth I of England, daughter of King Henry VIII of England and Queen Anne Boleyn ( d. 1603 )

** Ralph Lane, English explorer ( d. 1603 )

** Gráinne O ' Malley, Irish noblewoman ( d. 1603 )

** Ikoma Chikamasa, Japanese daimyo in the Azuchi-Momoyama and Edo periods ( d. 1603 )