Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1604
Birthdays
- April 5 - Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1675)
- May 10 - Jean Mairet, French dramatist (d. 1686)
- June 4 - Claudia de' Medici, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (d. 1648)
- August 4 - François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac
- August 12 - Tokugawa Iemitsu, Japanese shogun (d. 1651)
- September 13 - William Brereton, English soldier and politician (d. 1661)
- November 3 - Osman II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1622)
Deaths
- February 29 - John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1530)
- March 4 - Fausto Paolo Sozzini, Italian theologian (b. 1539)
- March 13 - Arnaud d'Ossat, French diplomat and writer (b. 1537)
- May 5 - Claudio Merulo, Italian composer (b. 1533)
- June 24 - Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford
- August 3 - Bernardino de Mendoza, Spanish military commander
- August 8 - Horio Tadauji, Japanese warlord (b. 1578)
- September 10 - William Morgan, Welsh Bible translator (b. 1545)
- October 18 - Igram van Achelen, Dutch statesman (b. 1528)
Events
- May 6 - Leon VII Spanish poet's first poem is published: La Cocina.
- October 9 - Supernova 1604, the most recent supernova to be observed in the Milky Way.
- October 17 - Kepler's Star: German astronomer Johannes Kepler observes that an exceptionally bright star had suddenly appeared in the constellation. Ophiuchus, which turned out to be the last supernova to have been observed in our own galaxy, the Milky Way.
- November 1 - William Shakespeare's tragedy Othello is presented for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.
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