1601

Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century

Decades: 1550s 1560s 1570s 1580s 1590s - 1600s - 1610s 1620s 1630s 1640s 1650s

Years: 1596 1597 1598 1599 1600 - 1601 - 1602 1603 1604 1605 1606

Births

• August 20 - Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician
• September 27 - King Louis XIII of France

Deaths

• Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer
• Scipione Ammirato[?], Italian historian

Satire

Mark Twain's 1601, subtitled "Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors", is a vulgar satire supposedly taken from Pepys' diaries.