1591 in France

• Monarch – Henry IV{{cite web |title=Henry IV, King of France (b. 1553, r. 1589–1610) |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/197779 |website=www.metmuseum.org |access-date=7 June 2022}}

• Siege of Rouen

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• March 15 – Alexandre de Rhodes, Jesuit missionary (d.1660){{cite encyclopedia |title=Alexandre De Rhodes |last=Weber |first= Nicholas|year=1912|encyclopedia=The Catholic Encyclopedia |url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13024a.htm |access-date=4 February 2016}}

• Girard Desargues, mathematician (d. 1661){{cite encyclopedia |title=Desargues, Girard |encyclopedia=Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon |volume=6 |year=1917 |edition=2 |editor=Blangstrup, Chr. |editor-link=Christian Blangstrup |publisher=J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel |location=Copenhagen |language=da |url=https://runeberg.org/salmonsen/2/6/0048.html |access-date=24 September 2015 }}

• May 4 – Hugues Doneau, law professor (b.1527).

• Barnabé Brisson, jurist and politician (b.1531)
• Noël du Fail, jurist and writer (b.c.1520)
• Edmond Auger, Jesuit (b.1530)
• Claude de Sainctes, Catholic controversialist (b.1525)

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