This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1606.
Events
New books
Prose
Drama
Poetry
Births
Deaths
- May 13 (burial) â Arthur Golding, English translator (born c. 1536)
- May 17 â Niccolò Orlandini, Italian Jesuit writer (born 1554)
- May 30 â Guru Arjan, Sikh Guru and compiler of scriptures (in custody, born 1563)
- September 28 â Nicolaus Taurellus, German philosopher and theologian (born 1547)
- October 5 â Philippe Desportes, French poet (born 1546)
- November 13 â Girolamo Mercuriale, Italian philologist and medical writer (born 1530)
- November 20 (burial) â John Lyly, English dramatist, poet and novelist (born c. 1553)
- November 22 â Sir Henry Billingsley, English translator (birth year unknown)
- Approximate dates
- Henry Chettle, English dramatist (born c. 1564)
- Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer â Dutch cartographer (born 1533/1534)
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