* 1603 – Johannes Cocceius, German-Dutch theologian ( d. 1669 )

* 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 )

* 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 )

* October 30 – Michel le Tellier, French statesman ( b. 1603 )

In Leiden, sometime after July 20, 1603, as Franchoys Couck, he married Hester le Mahieu, born in Lille, the daughter of Protestant refugees from England.

The French Baroque school is exemplified by composers such as Ennemond Gaultier ( 1575 – 1651 ), Denis Gaultier ( 1597 / 1603 – 1672 ), François Dufaut ( before 1604 – before 1672 ) and many others.

* 1675 – Valentin Conrart, French author ( b. 1603 )

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

* October 8 – Jean de Quen, French Jesuit missionary and historian ( b. c. 1603 )

* January – Denis Gaultier, French lutenist and composer ( b. 1603 )

** Pierre Charron, French philosopher ( died 1603 )

Valentin Conrart (; 1603 – 23 September 1675 ) was a French author, and as a founder of the Académie française, the first occupant of seat 2.

** Jean de Launoy, French historian ( born 1603 )

* September 23-Valentin Conrart, co-founder of the French Academie ( born 1603 )

both were founded in 1639 by French nun Marie de l ' Incarnation ( 1599 – 1672 ) alongside laywoman Marie-Madeline de Chauvigny de la Peltrie ( 1603 – 1671 ) and are the first Canadian institutions to have music as part of the curriculum.

From 1603, some of the Algonquin allied with the French under Champlain.

At the time of their first meeting with the French in 1603, the various Algonquin bands probably had a combined population somewhere in the neighborhood of 6000.

The French explorer Samuel de Champlain was the first European to reach the mouth of the river in 1603.

François Viète ( Latin: Franciscus Vieta ; 1540 – 23 February 1603 ), Seigneur de la Bigotière, was a French mathematician whose work on new algebra was an important step towards modern algebra, due to its innovative use of letters as parameters in equations.

Marquis Alexandre de Prouville de Tracy ( c. 1596 or 1603 – 1670 ) was a French aristocrat, statesman, and military leader.

When it was seen in 1603 by the French geographer and founder of Quebec City, Samuel de Champlain, it had only one arch.

In 1603, the French version was published for her tour of France.

Jean de Quen ( May, c. 1603 at Amiens, France-October 8, 1659 in Quebec ) was a French Jesuit missionary, priest and historian who discovered Lac Saint-Jean.

While the first English usage of the term was in 1603, by Shakespeare in Othello (" I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs "), the French translation of the term, la bête à deux dos, dates back to at least 1532, in François Rabelais ' Gargantua and Pantagruel:

The ideas expressed in both books of Baldauf stand in the traditional line of French theologians like Jean Hardouin, Jean de Launoy ( 1603 – 1678 ) and Barthelemy Germon, S. J.

* See Minuccio Minucci, Historia degli Uscochi ( Venice, 1603 ); enlarged by Paolo Sarpi, and translated into French as a supplement to Amelot de la Houssaye's Histoire du gouvernement de Venise ( Amsterdam, 1 / 05 ).

In the 15th century the Count of Provence owned the land, and from 1603 to the French Revolution it belonged to the Covets.