The 1610s decade ran from January 1, 1610, to December 31, 1619.
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August 2 : Henry Hudson sails into Hudson Bay .
April– June
April 10 – The Treaty of Brussol is signed between Charles Emmanuel I , Duke of Savoy , and a representative of King Henry IV of France , at a meeting at Bruzolo near Turin . The agreement for France and Savoy to remove Spanish occupiers from Italy, is never carried out because King Henry is assassinated one month later.
April 20 – William Shakespeare 's play, The Tragedie of Macbeth , is given its first performance, staged at the Globe Theatre in London . [4]
May 13 – A formal coronation is held for Marie de' Medici , wife of King Henry IV, as Queen Consort of France. King Henry is preparing to depart to Germany to participate in the War of the Jülich Succession .
May 14 – King Henry IV of France is assassinated in Paris by François Ravaillac , a French Catholic activist who resents the Protestant monarch's decision to launch a war against the Catholic Spanish Netherlands. Ravaillac rushes up to a horse-drawn carriage and stabs King Henry in the chest. Henry's 8-year-old son becomes King Louis XIII , with Henry's widow, Marie de' Medici , governing France as queen regent.
May 23 – Jamestown, Virginia : Acting as temporary Governor, Thomas Gates , along with John Rolfe , Captain Ralph Hamor , Sir George Somers, and other survivors from the Sea Venture (wrecked at Bermuda ) arrive at Jamestown; they find that 60 have survived the "starving time" (winter), the fort palisades and gates have been torn down, and empty houses have been used for firewood, in fear of attacks by natives outside the fort area.
May 24 – Jamestown, Virginia : The temporary Governor, Thomas Gates , issues The Divine, Moral, and Martial Laws .
May 27 – Regicide François Ravaillac is executed by being pulled apart by horses in the Place de Grève , Paris.
June 5 – The masque Tethys' Festival is performed at Whitehall Palace to celebrate the investiture of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales .[5]
June 7 – Jamestown : Temporary Governor Gates decides to abandon Jamestown.
June 8 – Jamestown : Temporary Governor Gates' convoy meets the ships of Governor Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr (Delaware ) at Mulberry Island .
June 10 – Jamestown : The convoy of temporary Governor Gates, and the ships of Governor Lord De La Warr, land at Jamestown.
June 24 – Henri Membertou , Grand Chief of Mi'kmaq nation, becomes the first North American aboriginal person to accept baptism into the Christian faith and signs the Concordat of 1610, an agreement with the Roman Catholic Church recognizing the Mi'kmaq as an independent nation.[6]
July– September
July 4 – (June 24 O.S.); Polish–Russian War – Battle of Klushino : The outnumbered forces of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth defeat the combined Russian and Swedish armies; Polish troops go on to occupy Moscow .[7]
July 5 – John Guy sets sail from Bristol , with 39 other colonists, for Newfoundland .
July 9 – Lady Arbella Stuart , a claimant to the throne of England, is imprisoned for clandestinely marrying William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset , another claimant, without royal permission on June 22 .[8]
July 27 (July 17 O.S.) – Vasili Ivanovich Shuisky , who proclaimed himself Tsar of Russia on May 19, 1606, is deposed as the Seven Boyars remove him from office to select a new ruler.
July 28 – War of the Jülich Succession : The Siege of Jülich , a walled city within the Holy Roman Empire (now in Germany), is started by a combined force of troops from the Dutch Republic , the Kingdom of France and the Margraviate of Brandenburg .
August 2 – Henry Hudson sails into what is now known as Hudson Bay , thinking he has made it through the Northwest Passage and reached the Pacific Ocean.
August 9 – Anglo-Powhatan Wars : The English launch a major attack on the Paspahegh village, capturing and executing the native queen and her children, burning houses and chopping down the corn fields; the subsequent use of the term "Paspahegh" in documents refers to their former territory.
September 1 – Claudio Monteverdi 's musical work Vespro della Beata Vergine (Vespers for the Blessed Virgin ) is first published, printed in Venice and dedicated to Pope Paul V .
September 2 – The Siege of Jülich ends as the Holy Roman Imperial city surrenders to Maurice of Nassau , commander of the Dutch Republic troops.
September 4 – The Kingdom of Toungoo (now Myanmar ) is retaken by King Anaukpetlun of Burma , as rebel leader Natshinnaung surrenders the city of Taungoo .
September 6 – (August 27 O.S.); The Seven Boyars , the group of seven Russian nobles seeking stability in the troubled nation, vote to have King Wladyslaw IV of Poland as Tsar Vladislav of Russia, and invite the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth to take over the city.
September 19 – Frederick V , age 14, becomes the new Prince-Elector of the Rhineland Palatinate , two days after the death of his father, Frederick IV .
September 21 (September 11 O.S.) – Forces of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth capture Moscow and begin occupation of the Kremlin for the next two years.
October– December
October 9 – Poland , under the command of Hetman Stanisław Żółkiewski , takes control of the Kremlin during the Polish–Russian War .
October 17 – The coronation of Louis XIII of France takes place.[9]
October 24 – The War of the Jülich Succession ends as the Protestant Union (including Margraviate of Brandenburg Brandenburg and Electoral Palatinate ) and the Catholic League (led by the Duchy of Bavaria ) agree to withdraw their forces from Germany and to disband them by year's end.
November 6 – After the Parliament of England gives King James only £ 100,000 of an agreed to £ 600,000 of debt relief promised in February under the Great Contract , the King demands the rest of the funds. Parliament is outraged and declares the Contract abandoned on November 9.
November 8 – The Basque witch trials come to an end after almost two years. Out of about 7,000 persons accused of witchcraft, only six are condemned to be executed by the Spanish Inquisition as two men (Domingo de Subildegui and Petri de Joangorena ) and four women (María de Echachute , Graciana Xarra , Maria Baztan de Borda , and Maria de Arburu ) are burned at the stake at Logroño . [10]
November 20 – The cession of Larache , a port in Morocco , takes place as Mohammed esh Sheikh el Mamun , Sultan of Morocco, transfers control of the city to Spain in return for. The Marquis de la Hinojosa accepts on behalf of King Felipe III of Spain in return for Spain's aid to the Sultan's fight against the Sultan's brother, Zidan Abu Maali . Larache remains under Spanish control for the next 79 years until another sultan retakes it.[11]
November 26 – French astronomers Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc and Joseph Gaultier make the first detailed observations of the Orion Nebula .
December 18 – (December 8 O.S.) English astronomer Thomas Harriot becomes the first person on Earth to observe sunspots through a telescope. [12]
December 19 – Pieter Both becomes the first Governor-general of the Dutch East Indies (now the Republic of Indonesia ), serving until 1614.
December 20 – (December 10 O.S.), John Roberts , a Benedictine monk in Wales , is executed five days after being convicted of high treason for violating a law against Catholic ministry. He is hanged, drawn and quartered . Roberts will be canonized as a Roman Catholic saint almost 360 years later, on October 25, 1970.
December 21 – (December 11 O.S.) The second False Dmitry is assassinated by a Kasim Tatar prince, Peter Urusov . After both Dmitry and Urosov have been drinking, Urusov shoots the Tsar Dmitry, then decapitates him. [13]
Date unknown
Dr. Bonham's Case , a landmark decision, is decided by Edward Coke , Chief Justice of the Common Pleas of England. Coke affirms the supremacy of the common law , which limits the power of Parliament as well as the king.[14]
The Manchu tribal leader Nurhaci breaks his relations with the Ming dynasty of China, at this time under the aloof and growingly negligent Wanli Emperor ; Nurhaci's line later becomes the emperors of the Qing dynasty , which overthrows the short-lived Shun dynasty in 1644 , and the remnants of the Ming throne in 1662 .
Publication is completed of the Douay–Rheims Bible (The Holie Bible Faithfully Translated into English ), a translation of the Bible from the Latin Vulgate into English made by members of the English College, Douai , in the service of the Catholic Church .[15]
Jakob Böhme experiences another inner vision, in which he believes that he further understands the unity of the cosmos, and that he has received a special vocation from God.
Work starts on the Wignacourt Aqueduct , in Malta .
Santa Fe, New Mexico , capital of New Mexico , is founded as capital of Kingdom of Nuevo México .[16]
1610
Pope Alexander VIII
Hendrik Martenszoon Sorgh
Gabriel Lalemant
Jacob Kettler
Adriaen van Ostade
January 9 – George Wilde , Irish bishop (d. 1665 )
January 10 – Louis Maimbourg , French Jesuit historian (d. 1686 )
January 12 – Reinhold Curicke , jurist and historian from Danzig (d. 1667 )
January 13 – Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria , Electress of Bavaria (d. 1665 )
January 21 – Elizabeth Fones , American settler (d. 1673 )
January 26 – Henry Hildyard , English Member of Parliament (d. 1674 )
February 2
February 11 – Salomon Idler , German inventor (d. 1669 )
February 13 – Jean de Labadie , French pietist (d. 1674 )
February 14 – Solomon Swale , English politician (d. 1678 )
March 3 – Pierre Dupuis , French painter (d. 1682 )
March 4 (bapt.) – William Dobson , English portraitist and painter (d. 1646 )
March 14
July 2 – Francis Browne, 3rd Viscount Montagu in the Peerage of England (d. 1682 )
July 6 – Hugh Forth , English politician (d. 1676 )
July 8 (bapt.) – Richard Deane , English military commander and regicide (d. 1653 )
July 11 – William Widdrington, 1st Baron Widdrington , English landowner, politician (d. 1651 )
July 14 – Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1670 )
July 18 – Antonio de Solís y Ribadeneyra , Spanish dramatist and historian (d. 1686 )
July 28 (bapt.) – Henry Glapthorne , English dramatist (d. c.1643 )
July 30 – Lorens von der Linde , Swedish field marshal (d. 1670 )
August 2 – Edward Master , English politician (d. 1691 )
August 4 – Cornelis Evertsen the Elder , Dutch admiral (d. 1666 )
August 23 – Susanna Margarete of Anhalt-Dessau , Princess of Anhalt-Dessau (d. 1663 )
September 4 – Giovanni Andrea Sirani , Italian painter (d. 1670 )
September 6
September 10 – Sir Edward Seymour, 3rd Baronet , Member of Parliament (d. 1688 )
September 24 – Huang Zongxi , Chinese political theorist, philosopher, naturalist, writer and soldier (d. 1695 )
September 28 – Henry Hastings, 1st Baron Loughborough , English Royalist army commander in the English Civil War (d. 1666 )
September 29 – Gabriel Druillettes , French missionary (d. 1681 )
October 3 – Gabriel Lalemant , Jesuit missionary in New France, beginning in 1646 (d. 1649 )
October 6 – Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier , French soldier, the governor of the Louis (d. 1690 )
October 19 – James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde , Anglo-Irish statesman and soldier (d. 1688 )
October 28 – Jacob Kettler , German noble (d. 1682 )
November 8 – Pietro Vidoni , Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1681 )
November 20 – Henry Heyman , English politician (d. 1658 )
November 22 – Duchess Marie Elisabeth of Saxony (d. 1684 )
November 28 – Augustine Warner , Virginia planter, politician (d. 1674 )
December 9 – Baldassare Ferri , Italian castrato singer (d. 1680 )
December 10 – Adriaen van Ostade , Dutch painter (d. 1685 )
December 15 – David Teniers the Younger , Flemish artist born in Antwerp (d. 1690 )
December 18 – Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange , French philologist and historian (d. 1688 )
December 25
December 28 – Basil of Ostrog , Serbian Orthodox bishop venerated as Saint Vasilije (d. 1671 )
1611
John Pell
William Cartwright
January 3 – James Harrington , English political theorist of classical republicanism (d. 1677 )
January 5 – Tsarevich Ivan Dmitriyevich , pretender to the Russian throne (k. 1614 )
January 28 – Johannes Hevelius , Polish astronomer (d. 1687 )[129]
February 2 – Ulrik of Denmark , Danish prince-bishop (d. 1633 )
February 3 – Christian Ulrik Gyldenløve , Danish diplomat and military officer (d. 1640 )
February 5 (bapt.) – Philip Sherman , English-born founder of Rhode Island (d. 1687 )
February 6 – Chongzhen Emperor of China (d. 1644 )
February 19 – Andries de Graeff , Dutch politician (d. 1678 )
February 24 ? (bapt. March 4) – William Dobson , English portrait painter (d. 1646 )
February 28 – William Brereton, 2nd Baron Brereton , English politician (d. 1664 )
March 1 – John Pell , English mathematician (d. 1685 )
March 9 – Pierre-Joseph-Marie Chaumonot , French missionary (d. 1693 )
March 15 – Jan Fyt , Flemish Baroque painter (d. 1661 )
March 17 – Robert Douglas, Count of Skenninge , Swedish field marshal (d. 1662 )
March 25 – Evliya Çelebi , Ottoman Turk, travels around the Ottoman Empire for 40 years (d. 1682 )
March 28
July 15 – Jai Singh I , Maharaja of Jaipur (d. 1667 )
July 16 – Cecilia Renata of Austria , queen consort of Poland (d. 1644 )
July 21 – Jan van Balen , Flemish painter (d. 1654 )
July 23 – Henry Hungerford , English politician (d. 1673 )
July 24 – Giancarlo de' Medici , Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1663 )
August 4 – Jan van den Hoecke , Dutch painter (d. 1651 )
August 9 – Henry of Nassau-Siegen , German count, officer in the Dutch Army, diplomat for the Dutch Republic (d. 1652 )
September 1 – William Cartwright , English dramatist (d. 1643 )
September 3 – Toussaint Rose , French writer (d. 1701 )
September 4 – George III of Brieg , Duke of Brzeg (1633–1664) (d. 1664 )
September 8 – Johann Friedrich Gronovius , German classical scholar (d. 1671 )
September 11 – Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne (d. 1675 )[131]
September 17 – Johann Olearius , German hymnwriter (d. 1684 )
1612
Thomas Killigrew
Pier Francesco Mola
Joannes Meyssens
Margherita de' Medici
Frans Post
January 17 – Thomas Fairfax , English Civil War general (d. 1671 )[132]
January 21 – Henry Casimir I of Nassau-Dietz , Stadtholder of Groningen, Friesland and Drenthe (d. 1640 )
January 22 – Daniel Zwicker , German physician (d. 1678 )
January 23 – George FitzGerald, 16th Earl of Kildare , Irish earl (d. 1660 )
February 1 – William West , English politician (d. 1670 )
February 2 – Thomas Wentworth, 5th Baron Wentworth , English baron and politician (d. 1665 )
February 4 – Arthur Spry , English politician (d. 1685 )
February 5 – Crown Prince Sohyeon , Korean crown prince (d. 1645 )
February 6 – Antoine Arnauld , French theologian (d. 1694 )
February 7 – Thomas Killigrew , English dramatist and theatre manager (d. 1683 )[133]
February 9 – Pier Francesco Mola , Italian painter of the High Baroque (d. 1666 )
February 15 – Paul de Chomedey, Sieur de Maisonneuve , French military officer, founder of Montreal in New France (d. 1676 )
February 20 – Richard Olmsted , Connecticut settler (d. 1687 )
February 21 – Lorenzo Imperiali , Italian cardinal (d. 1673 )
February 22 (bapt.) – George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol , English statesman (d. 1677 )
March 20 – Anne Bradstreet , née Dudley, English-born American Puritan poet (d. 1672 )
April 6 – James Stewart, 1st Duke of Richmond (d. 1655 )
April 10 – Francesco Lorenzo Brancati di Lauria , Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1693 )
April 12 – Simone Cantarini , Italian painter and engraver (d. 1648 )
April 28 – Odoardo Farnese, Duke of Parma and Piacenza from 1622 to 1646 (d. 1646 )
May 6 – François-Joseph Bressani , Italian missionary (d. 1672 )
May 10 – Francesco Palliola , Italian Servant of God (d. 1648 )
May 12 – Laurence Womock , English Bishop of St David's (d. 1687 )
May 17
May 26 – Raja Wodeyar II , King of Mysore (d. 1638 )
May 31 – Margherita de' Medici , Italian noble (d. 1679 )
June 1 – Frans Post , Dutch painter (d. 1680 )
June 23 – André Tacquet , Brabantian mathematician, Jesuit priest (d. 1660 )
June 25 – John Albert Vasa , Polish bishop (d. 1634 )
June 29 – Sir William Bowyer, 1st Baronet , English politician (d. 1679 )
July 23 – Christian Lupus , Flemish historian (d. 1681 )
July 27 – Murad IV , Ottoman Sultan (d. 1640 )
August 2 – Saskia van Uylenburgh , wife of painter Rembrandt van Rijn (d. 1642 )
August 10 – Charles de Grimaldi-Régusse , French aristocrat (d. 1687 )
August 12 – Allart Pieter van Jongestall , Dutch jurist, politician, and diplomat (d. 1676 )
August 17 – Jeremi Wiśniowiecki , Polish nobleman (d. 1651 )
August 23 – Francis Lascelles , English politician (d. 1667 )
August 28 – Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn , Dutch scholar (d. 1653 )
September 1 – Nicolas Chorier , French historian, lawyer and writer (d. 1692 )
September 24 – William Gawdy , English politician (d. 1669 )
October 6
October 14
October 18 – John Eliot , English politician (d. 1685 )
October 19 – Nicolas Chaperon , French painter (d. 1656 )
October 20 – Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Burlington , Anglo-Irish nobleman, Lord High Treasurer of Ireland, Cavalier (d. 1698 )
October 23 – Henry Lingen , English politician (d. 1662 )
October 25 – James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose , Scottish soldier (d. 1650 )
October 26 – Henry Wilmot, 1st Earl of Rochester (d. 1658 )
October 27 – Margravine Magdalene Sibylle of Brandenburg-Bayreuth , Electress of Saxony by marriage (1656–1680) (d. 1687 )
October 30 – Paul Würtz , Swedish general (d. 1676 )
November 7 – Pierre Mignard , French painter (d. 1695 )
November 11
November 17 – Dorgon , Chinese Manchu prince (d. 1650 )
November 28 – Sir Thomas Whitmore, 1st Baronet , English politician and Baronet (d. 1653 )
December 2 – David Ryckaert III , Flemish painter (d. 1661 )
1613
Mattia Preti
Stjepan Gradić
André Le Nôtre
Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang
Claude Perrault
January 14 – Pier Martire Armani , Italian painter (d. 1699 )
January 15 – Giovanni Pietro Bellori , Italian art historian (d. 1696 )
January 21 – George Gillespie , Scottish theologian (d. 1648 )
February 2
February 7 – Johannes Musaeus , German theologian (d. 1681 )
February 24 – Mattia Preti , Italian painter (d. 1699 )
February 28 – John Pearson , English theologian and scholar (d. 1686 )
March 6
March 11 – Francesco Caetani, 8th Duke of Sermoneta , Governor of the Duchy of Milan (d. 1683 )
March 12 – André Le Nôtre , French landscape and garden designer (d. 1700 )[134]
March 19 – John Swinfen , English politician (d. 1694 )
March 24 – Antonia of Württemberg , princess, literary figure, patron and Christian Kabbalist (d. 1679 )
March 28 – Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang , concubine of Qing dynasty ruler Hong Taiji (d. 1688 )[135]
March 29 – Louis-Isaac Lemaistre de Sacy , French Bible translator (d. 1684 )
April 1
April 7 – Gerrit Dou , Dutch painter (d. 1675 )
April 18 – Philip Wharton, 4th Baron Wharton , English soldier (d. 1696 )
April 21 – Franciscus Plante , Dutch painter, chaplain (d. 1690 )
April 29 – Christoph Bach , German musician (d. 1661 )
May 9 – Mattias de' Medici , Italian noble (d. 1667 )
May 10 – François Chauveau , French painter (d. 1676 )
May 15 – George Seton, Lord Seton , Scottish noble (d. 1648 )
May 31 – John George II, Elector of Saxony (1656–1680) (d. 1680 )
June 1 – William Wirich, Count of Daun-Falkenstein , German nobleman (d. 1682 )
June 13 – Johann Ernst, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg (1641–1642) (d. 1642 )
June 16 – John Cleveland , English poet (d. 1658 )
July 15 – Gu Yanwu , Chinese philologist and geographer (d. 1682 )
July 16 – Alderano Cybo , Catholic cardinal (d. 1700 )
August 7 – William Frederick, Prince of Nassau-Dietz , Dutch stadtholder (d. 1664 )
August 15 – Gilles Ménage , French scholar (d. 1692 )
August 18 – Sir Thomas Peyton, 2nd Baronet , English politician (d. 1684 )
August 20 – Duchess Elisabeth Sophie of Mecklenburg , German poet composer and (by marriage) Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1676 )
August 24 – Bartholomew Holzhauser , German priest, founder of a religious community, visionary, writer of prophecies (d. 1658 )
August 29 – John Jolliffe , English politician and businessman (d. 1680 )
September 8 – Henri Albert de La Grange d'Arquien , Catholic cardinal (d. 1707 )
September 15 – François de La Rochefoucauld , French writer (d. 1680 )[136]
September 19 – Sir John Norwich, 1st Baronet , English Member of Parliament (d. 1661 )
September 25 – Claude Perrault , French architect (d. 1688 )
October 3 – Marion Delorme , French courtesan known for her relationships with the important men of her time (d. 1650 )
October 12 – Jacques d'Arthois , Flemish painter (d. 1686 )
October 13
October 19 – Charles of Sezze , Italian Franciscan friar and saint (d. 1670 )
October 28 – Edmund Bowyer , English politician (d. 1681 )
November 5 – Isaac de Benserade , French poet (d. 1691 )[137]
November 12 – Sir Ralph Verney, 1st Baronet, of Middle Claydon , English Baronet (d. 1696 )
November 16 – Frederick, Prince of Anhalt-Harzgerode (1635–1670) (d. 1670 )
November 20 – Tyman Oosdorp , Dutch Golden Age brewer and magistrate of Haarlem (d. 1668 )
November 24 – John Knight , Member of the Parliament of England (d. 1683 )
November 25 – Philip VII, Count of Waldeck -Wildungen (1638–1645) (d. 1645 )
December 4 (bapt.) – Samuel Butler , English satirist (d. 1680 )
December 10 – Izaak van Oosten , Flemish painter (d. 1661 )
December 11 – Amar Singh Rathore , Rajput nobleman affiliated with the royal house of Marwar (d. 1644 )
December 23 – Carl Gustaf Wrangel , Field Marshal of Sweden (d. 1676 )
December 28 – Bullen Reymes , English courtier, diplomat and politician (d. 1672 )
1614
Christopher Merret
Jahanara Begum
Martino Martini
January 1
January 5 – Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria , Governor of the Spanish Netherlands (d. 1662 )
January 10 – Kanō Yasunobu , Japanese painter of the Kanō school of painting, during the Edo period (d. 1685 )
January 20 – Samuel Gott , English politician (d. 1671 )[138]
February 2 – Robert Ellison , English politician (d. 1678 )
February 8 – Thomas Wendy , English politician (d. 1673 )
February 14 – John Wilkins , English bishop, academic and natural philosopher (d. 1672 )
February 16 – Christopher Merret , English physician and scientist (d. 1695 )
March 3 – Sir Peter Leycester, 1st Baronet , British historian (d. 1678 )
March 8 – Hendrik van der Borcht II , German painter (d. 1676 )
March 15 – Franciscus Sylvius , Dutch physician and scientist (d. 1672 )
March 25
April 1 – Martin Schoock , Dutch academic (d. 1669 )
April 2 – Jahanara Begum , Mughal princess (d. 1681 )
April 10 – William Thompson , English Member of Parliament (d. 1681 )
April 11 – Helena Fourment , Dutch model, second wife of Peter Paul Rubens (d. 1673 )
April 18 – Nicolas Robert , French painter (d. 1685 )
April 25
May 10 – Zacharias Wagenaer , secretary, painter, then merchant and administrator (Dutch East-India Company) (d. 1668 )
May 12 – Giovanni Bernardo Carboni , Italian painter (d. 1683 )
May 28 – Gustav Evertsson Horn , Finnish-Swedish politician, Field Marshal (d. 1666 )
June 15 – Emilie of Oldenburg-Delmenhorst , Regent of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (1646–1662) (d. 1670 )
June 24 – John Belasyse, 1st Baron Belasyse of England (d. 1689 )
July 10 – Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey , English royalist statesman (d. 1686 )
July 23 – Bonaventura Peeters the Elder , Flemish marine painter (d. 1652 )
August 3 – Juan de Arellano , Spanish artist (d. 1676 )
August 13 – Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels , administrator of the archbishopric of Magdeburg (d. 1680 )
September 7 – Gustaf Otto Stenbock , Swedish soldier and politician (d. 1685 )
September 11 – Philipp Buchner , German composer (d. 1669 )
September 12 – Robert Packer , English politician (d. 1682 )
September 20 – Martino Martini , Italian missionary, cartographer and historian (d. 1661 )
September 25 – Giles Hungerford , English politician (d. 1685 )
September 27 – Daniel Hallé , French painter (d. 1675 )
September 28 – Juan Hidalgo de Polanco , Spanish composer (d. 1685 )
October 3 – Sigmund von Erlach , Swiss politician (d. 1699 )
October 6 – Francesco de' Medici , Tuscan prince (d. 1634 )
October 12 – Henry More , English philosopher (d. 1687 )
October 13 – Thomas Jones , English politician and judge (d. 1692 )
October 20 (bapt.) – Franciscus Mercurius van Helmont , Flemish alchemist (d. 1698 )
November 2 – Philip Dietrich, Count of Waldeck -Eisenberg (1640–1645) (d. 1645 )
November 4 – Alexander Charles Vasa , 5th son of King Sigismund III of Poland (d. 1634 )
November 11 – John Bulkeley , English politician (d. 1662 )
November 27 – Fernando de Meneses, 2nd Count of Ericeira , Portuguese noble (d. 1699 )
November 30 – William Howard, 1st Viscount Stafford of England (d. 1680 )
December 16 – Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1674 )
December 21 – Francis Anderson , English politician (d. 1679 )
December 27 – Béatrix de Cusance , Frenc-Comtois noble woman (d. 1663 )
December 31 – Mechtilde of the Blessed Sacrament , French nun (d. 1698 )
1615
Govert Flinck
Pieter de Groot
Erdmann August of Brandenburg-Bayreuth
Richard Baxter
January 6 – Richard Waldron , colonial settler, acting President of the Province of New Hampshire (d. 1689 )
January 10 – Sir John Robinson, 1st Baronet, of London , English politician (d. 1680 )
January 13 – Henrik Bjelke , Norwegian military officer (d. 1683 )
January 14 – John Biddle , English theologian (d. 1662 )
January 20 – Karmabai , Indian Jat known as Bhakt Shiromani Karmabai (d. 1634 )
January 25 – Govert Flinck , Dutch painter of the Dutch Golden Age (d. 1660 )
January 27 – Nicolas Fouquet , French Superintendent of Finances (d. 1680 )[139]
January 30 – Thomas Rolfe , only child of Pocahontas and her English husband (d. 1675 )
February 18 – Maria Caterina Farnese , Duchess of Modena and Reggio (d. 1646 )
February 27 – Isaac Thornton , English politician (d. 1669 )
March 10 – Hans Ulrik Gyldenløve , illegitimate son of King Christian IV of Denmark and his mistress (d. 1645 )
March 11 – Johann Weikhard of Auersperg , Austrian prime minister (d. 1677 )
March 13 – Pope Innocent XII (d. 1700 )[140]
March 17 – Gregorio Carafa , Grandmaster of the Order of Saint John (d. 1690 )
March 20 – Dara Shikoh , Indian prince (d. 1659 )
March 22 – Katherine Jones, Viscountess Ranelagh , English female scientist (d. 1691 )
March 28 – Pieter de Groot , Dutch diplomat (d. 1678 )
March 28 – Cosimo Ruggeri , Italian astrologer
July 1 – Samuel Hales , Connecticut settler and politician (d. 1693 )
July 9 – Sir Thomas Sclater, 1st Baronet , English politician (d. 1684 )
July 22 – Marguerite of Lorraine , princess of Lorraine, duchess of Orléans (d. 1672 )
July 28 – Charles de Noyelle , French Jesuit Superior General (d. 1686 )
August 13 – John Sherburne , American colonial (d. 1693 )
August 15 – Marie de Lorraine, Duchess of Guise (d. 1688 )
August 18 – John Sadler , British town clerk (d. 1674 )
September 3 – Mary Bradbury , accused Salem, Massachusetts witch (d. 1700 )
September 7 – John Birch , English politician (d. 1691 )
September 12
September 17 – Nicholas Pedley , English politician (d. 1685 )
September 20 – Giambattista Spinola , Italo-Spanish Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 1704 )
September 26 – Heinrich Bach , German organist and composer (d. 1692 )
October 1 – Hugh Bethell , English Member of Parliament and High Sheriff (d. 1679 )
October 8 – Erdmann August of Brandenburg-Bayreuth , Hereditary Margrave (d. 1651 )
October 23 – Ove Juul , Governor-General of Norway (d. 1686 )
October 27 – Christian I, Duke of Saxe-Merseburg , member of the House of Wettin (d. 1691 )
November 5 – Ibrahim , Ottoman Sultan (d. 1648 )
November 12 – Richard Baxter , English Puritan church leader (d. 1691 )[141]
November 19 – Richard Norton of Southwick Park , English politician (d. 1691 )
November 20 – Francis Dane , American colonial priest (d. 1697 )
November 24 – Philip William, Elector Palatine (d. 1690 )
December 6 – Frederick Schomberg, 1st Duke of Schomberg (d. 1690 )
December 7 – Nicodemus Tessin the Elder , Swedish architect (d. 1681 )
December 9 – Anne Carr, Countess of Bedford , English noble (d. 1684 )
December 19 – Frederick, Duke of Württemberg-Neuenstadt , German duke (d. 1682 )
December 21 – Benedict Arnold , Rhode Island colonial governor (d. 1678 )
December 29 – Charles Scarborough , English physician, mathematician (d. 1694 )
Date unknown:
1616
Ferdinand Bol
John Leverett
Nicholas Culpeper
John Wallis
January 1 – Nabeshima Naozumi , Japanese daimyō (d. 1669 )
January 5 – Alexander von Bournonville , Flemish noble and general (d. 1690 )
January 13 – Antoinette Bourignon , French-Flemish mystic and adventurer (d. 1680 )
January 16 – François de Vendôme, Duke of Beaufort , French soldier (d. 1669 )
January 20 – Jerzy Sebastian Lubomirski , Polish noble (szlachcic) (d. 1667 )
January 27 or January 28 – Christen Aagaard , Danish poet (d. 1664 )
February 1 – Sophie Elisabeth of Brandenburg , Duchess consort of Saxe-Altenburg (d. 1650 )
February 2 – Sébastien Bourdon , French painter and engraver (d. 1671 )
February 14 – Marc Restout , French painter (d. 1684 )
February 25 – Isaack Luttichuys , Dutch Golden Age painter (d. 1673 )
February 27 – István Esterházy , member of the wealthy Hungarian Esterházy family (d. 1641 )
February 28
March 1 – Maurizio Cazzati , Italian composer (d. 1678 )
March 9 – Robert Giguère , early pioneer in New France (d. 1709 )
March 13 – Joseph Beaumont , British academic and poet (d. 1699 )
March 16 – Thomas Jervoise , English politician (d. 1693 )
March 29 – Johann Erasmus Kindermann , German composer and organist (d. 1655 )
April 1 – Christian Günther II, Count of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen-Arnstadt (1642–1666) (d. 1666 )
April 2 – Herbert Morley , English politician (d. 1667 )
April 5 – Frederick, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (d. 1661 )
April 7 – Thomas Hopkins , early Providence, Rhode Island settler (d. 1684 )
April 19 – Louis IV of Legnica , Duke of Oława and Brzeg (1633–1654) (d. 1663 )
April 24 – Gustav, Count of Vasaborg , illegitimate son of King Gustavus Adolphus and his mistress Margareta Slots (d. 1653 )
April 27 – Jeremias Felbinger , German Socinian writer (d. 1690 )
May 1 – Frederick III, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1625–1634) (d. 1634 )
May 16 – Archibald Primrose, Lord Carrington , Scottish judge (d. 1679 )
May 19 – Johann Jakob Froberger , German composer and keyboardist (d. 1667 )
May 23 – Sir Edward Bagot, 2nd Baronet , English politician (d. 1673 )
May 24 – John Maitland, 1st Duke of Lauderdale (d. 1682 )
May 25 – Carlo Dolci , Italian painter (d. 1686 )
May 27 – Christina Magdalena of the Palatinate-Zweibrücken , Swedish Princess by birth; margravine of Baden-Durlach by marriage (d. 1662 )
June – John Thurloe , English spymaster for Oliver Cromwell (d. 1668 )
June 3 – George Courthope , English politician (d. 1685 )
June 23 – Shah Shuja , second son of Shah Jahan and Mumtaz Mahal (d. 1661 )
June 24
June 25 – James Livingstone, 1st Viscount Kilsyth of Scotland (d. 1661 )
June 28 – Lucas Franchoys the Younger , Flemish painter (d. 1681 )
July 7 (bapt. ) – John Leverett , Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony (d. 1679 )
July 10 – Antonio del Castillo y Saavedra , Spanish artist (d. 1668 )
July 21 – Anna de' Medici, Archduchess of Austria (d. 1676 )
August – William Russell, 1st Duke of Bedford , British peer and soldier (d. 1700 )
August 6 – John Higginson , English minister (d. 1708 )
August 12 – Johann Paul Freiherr von Hocher , Austrian chancellor (d. 1683 )
August 18 – John Hervey , English courtier and politician (d. 1680 )
August 30 – Giovan Battista Nani , Italian historian and diplomat (d. 1678 )
September 9 – Nicolás de Villacis , Spanish painter (d. 1694 )
September 25 – Alexander Morus , Franco-Scottish Calvinist preacher (d. 1670 )
October 4 – Philippe Balthazar de Gand , French noble (d. 1680 )
October 11 – Andreas Gryphius , German lyric poet and dramatist (d. 1664 )
October 15 – Hoshina Masakage , Japanese daimyō of the Edo period (d. 1700 )
October 18 – Nicholas Culpeper , English botanist (d. 1654 )
October 20 – Thomas Bartholin , Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian (d. 1680 )
October 21 – Camillo Astalli , Italian cardinal (d. 1663 )
November 13 – Nicholas Dennys , English politician (d. 1692 )
November 23 – John Wallis , English mathematician (d. 1703 )
December 12 – Martin Lluelyn , Welsh poet (d. 1682 )
December 13 – Edward Chamberlayne , English writer (d. 1703 )
December 14 – William Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Hamilton , Scottish nobleman (d. 1651 )
December 17 – Roger L'Estrange , English pamphleteer and author (d. 1704 )
December 25 – Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau , German poet (d. 1679 )
Charles Albanel , French missionary (d. 1696 )
Henry Bard, 1st Viscount Bellomont , English Royalist (d. 1656 )
Jan Kazimierz Chodkiewicz , Polish nobleman (szlachcic) (d. 1660 )
Thomas Harrison , English Puritan soldier and Fifth Monarchist (d. 1660 )
William Holder , English music theorist (d. 1698 )
Kamalakara , Indian astronomer/mathematician (d. 1700 )
Johann Klaj , German poet (d. 1656 )
Kuzma Minin , merchant from Nizhny Novgorod
Sokuhi Nyoitsu , Buddhist monk (d. 1671 )
John Owen , English Nonconformist theologian (d. 1683 )
Edward Sexby , English Puritan soldier/Leveller (d. 1658 )
Obadiah Walker , Master of University College, Oxford (d. 1699 )
1617
Lucas Faydherbe
Elias Ashmole
Richard Lovelace
January 6 – Christoffer Gabel , Danish statesman (d. 1673 )
January 19 – Lucas Faydherbe , Belgian sculptor and architect (d. 1697 )
January 22 – Lodewijck Neefs , Flemish painter (d. 1649 )
January 23 – Ralph Josselin , English clergyman (d. 1683 )
January 30
February 5 – Jan Thomas van Ieperen , Flemish engraver, painter (d. 1673 )
February 22 – Robert Culliford , English politician (d. 1698 )
March 8 – Tito Livio Burattini , Italian inventor, Egyptologist, instrument-maker (d. 1681 )
March 17
April 4 – Sir George Wharton, 1st Baronet , English baronet (d. 1681 )
April 20 – Sir John Goodricke, 1st Baronet , English landowner and politician (d. 1670 )
May 3 – Roger Pepys , English lawyer and politician (d. 1688 )
May 9 – Frederick, Landgrave of Hesse-Eschwege (d. 1655 )
May 23 – Elias Ashmole , English antiquarian (d. 1692 )[142]
June 2 – Maeda Toshitsugu , Japanese daimyō of the early Edo period (d. 1674 )
June 13 – Sir Vincent Corbet, 1st Baronet , English politician (d. 1656 )
June 18 – George Evelyn , English politician (d. 1699 )
June 20 – Franciscus Bonae Spei , French Catholic scholastic theologian, philosopher (d. 1677 )
July 31 – Nicolás Antonio , Spanish bibliographer born in Seville (d. 1684 )
August 10 – Richard Ingoldsby , English politician (d. 1685 )
August 13 – Johannes Andreas Quenstedt , German theologian (d. 1688 )
August 25 – Frances Hyde, Countess of Clarendon , English noble (d. 1667 )
September 3 – Roshanara Begum , Mughal princess (d. 1671 )
September 13 – Margravine Louise Charlotte of Brandenburg , Duchess of Courland by marriage (1645–1676) (d. 1676 )
September 25 – Sir Francis Drake, 2nd Baronet , English Member of Parliament (d. 1662 )
September 29 – Lothar Friedrich von Metternich-Burscheid , Prince-Bishop of Speyer (1652–1675) (d. 1675 )
October 5 – Dorothy Spencer, Countess of Sunderland , English countess (d. 1684 )
October 10 – William Cavendish, 3rd Earl of Devonshire , English nobleman (d. 1684 )
October 12 – Sir Francis Gerard, 2nd Baronet , English Member of Parliament (d. 1680 )
October 17 – Dionisio Lazzari , Italian sculptor and architect (d. 1689 )
October 28
November 4 – Johannes Hoornbeek , Dutch theologian (d. 1666 )
November 6 – Leopoldo de' Medici , Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1675 )
November 16 – Frederick VI, Margrave of Baden-Durlach (1659–1677) (d. 1677 )
November 19 – Eustache Le Sueur , French painter (d. 1655 )
December – Gerard ter Borch , Dutch painter (d. 1681 )
December 4 – Federico Visconti , Cardinal Archbishop of Milan (d. 1693 )
December 9 – Richard Lovelace , English poet (d. 1657 )[143]
December 22 – Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine (d. 1680 )
December 23 – Magdalene Sibylle of Saxony , Crown Princess of Denmark (d. 1668 )
December 25 – Jean de Coligny-Saligny , French noble and army commander (d. 1686 )
1618
Jan Six
Sir Peter Lely
Aurangzeb
January 1 (bapt.) – Bartolomé Esteban Murillo , Spanish painter (d. 1682 )
January 2 – Jean Hamon , French doctor and writer (d. 1687 )
January 3 – Jean Crasset , French Jesuit theologian (d. 1692 )
January 8 – Madeleine Béjart , French actress and theatre director (d. 1672 )[144]
January 14 – Jan Six , important cultural figure in the Dutch Golden Age (d. 1700 )
January 25 – Nicolaes Visscher I , Dutch engraver, cartographer and publisher (d. 1679 )
January 28 – James Ley, 3rd Earl of Marlborough , English nobleman, sailor, and mathematician (d. 1665 )
January 29 – Jean Paul Médaille , French Jesuit missionary (d. 1689 )
February 12 – Olaus Verelius , scholar of Old Norse and Scandinavian studies (d. 1682 )[145]
February 17 – Matthias Abele , Austrian jurist, mine official (d. 1677 )
February 19 – Johannes Phocylides Holwarda , Dutch astronomer (d. 1651 )
March 4 – George Louis, Prince of Nassau-Dillenburg , German noble (d. 1656 )
March 14 – Nadira Banu Begum , Mughal princess (d. 1659 )
March 19 – Thomas Hinckley , last colonial governor of Plymouth Colony (d. 1706 )
April 2 – Francesco Maria Grimaldi , Italian mathematician and physicist (d. 1663 )[146]
April 4 – Ferrante III Gonzaga, Duke of Guastalla , Italian noble (d. 1678 )
April 9 – Christian, Duke of Brieg , Duke of Legnica (1663–1672) and Brieg (1664–1672) (d. 1672 )
April 13 – Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy , French writer (d. 1693 )
April 14 – Thomas Moore , English politician (d. 1695 )[147]
April 29 – Vittoria Farnese d'Este , Duchess of Modena and Reggio (d. 1649 )
May 22 – Henrik Horn , Swedish military leader and noble (d. 1693 )
June 1 – Johann Franck , German poet and hymnist (d. 1677 )
June 15
June 24 – Philip Packer , British barrister and architect (d. 1686 )
June 28 – Jean Le Pautre , French designer and engraver (d. 1682 )
July 6 – Alexander Lindsay, 1st Earl of Balcarres , Scottish politician and noble (d. 1659 )[148]
July 17
July 21 – Hayashi Gahō , Japanese philosopher (d. 1688 )
July 22 – Johan Nieuhof , Dutch traveler who wrote about his journeys to Brazil (d. 1672 )
September 6 – Walter Hoyt , Connecticut settler (d. 1698 )
September 9 – Joan Cererols , Catalan musician and Benedictine monk (d. 1680 )
September 11 – Francesco Grue , Italian artist (d. 1673 )
September 14 – Peter Lely , Dutch painter (d. 1680 )[149]
September 27 – Jacob Alting , Dutch linguist (d. 1679 )
September 29 – Michiel Sweerts , Flemish painter (d. 1664 )
October 8 – Claude Lamoral, 3rd Prince of Ligne , Spanish general and prince (d. 1679 )
October 7 – Rosina Schnorr , German businessperson (d. 1679 )
October 31 – Mariana de Jesús de Paredes , Catholic saint, the first person to be canonized from Ecuador (d. 1645 )
November – Simon Arnauld, Marquis de Pomponne , French diplomat and minister of Louis XIV (d. 1699 )
November 1 – Sir John Wittewrong, 1st Baronet , English parliamentarian (d. 1693 )
November 3 – Aurangzeb , Mughal emperor of India (d. 1707 )
November 8 – Louise de La Fayette , French courtier, friend of King Louis XIII (d. 1665 )[150]
November 12 – Gottfried Welsch , German physician (d. 1690 )
November 16 – Johann Ludwig Schönleben , Carniolan priest (d. 1681 )
November 26 – Johan Frederik von Marschalck , German-born landowner, Chancellor of Norway (d. 1679 )
December 2
December 3 – Sir William Ayloffe, 3rd Baronet , officer in the Royalist army during the English Civil War (d. 1662 )
December 18 – Karl Kaspar von der Leyen , German Catholic archbishop (d. 1676 )
December 26 – Elisabeth of the Palatinate , German princess, philosopher, and Calvinist (d. 1680 )
December 28 – Catharina Hooft , noblewoman of the Dutch Golden Age (d. 1691 )[151]
1619
Charles Le Brun
Peter Mews
Anna Sophia I, Abbess of Quedlinburg
Jan van Riebeeck
Carel van Savoyen
Rijcklof van Goens
Anne Geneviève de Bourbon
January 10 – Philip Sidney, 3rd Earl of Leicester , English politician (d. 1698 )
January 14
January 17 – Johanna Elisabeth of Nassau-Hadamar , by marriage Princess of Anhalt-Harzgerode (d. 1647 )
January 21
January 24 – Yamazaki Ansai , Japanese philosopher (d. 1682 )
January 30 – Michelangelo Ricci , Roman Catholic cardinal, mathematician (d. 1682 )
February 1 – Robert Phelips , English politician (d. 1707 )
February 2 – Walter Charleton , English natural philosopher (d. 1707 )
February 9 – Queen Inseon , Korean royal consort (d. 1674 )
February 15 – Tsugaru Nobuyoshi , Japanese daimyō (d. 1655 )
February 24
February 26 – Francesco Morosini , Doge of Venice from 1688 to 1694 (d. 1694 )
February 28 – Giuseppe Felice Tosi , Italian composer (d. 1693 )
March 2 – Marcantonio Giustinian , 107th Doge of Venice (d. 1688 )
March 5 – Joseph Ames , English naval commander (d. 1695 )
March 6 – Cyrano de Bergerac , French soldier and poet (d. 1655 )
March 13 – Tobias Lohner , Austrian Jesuit theologian (d. 1697 )[153]
March 15 – Jean Le Vacher , French Lazarist missionary and French consul (d. 1683 )
March 20 – Georg Albrecht, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth-Kulmbach (d. 1666 )
March 25 – Peter Mews , English Royalist theologian and bishop (d. 1706 )
March 28 – Maurice, Duke of Saxe-Zeitz (1657–1681) (d. 1681 )
July 3 – Hyojong of Joseon , 17th king of the Joseon Dynasty of Korea (1649–1659) (d. 1659 )
July 13 – Birgitta Durell , Swedish industrialist (d. 1683 )
July 27 – Sir Henry Felton, 2nd Baronet , English Member of Parliament (d. 1690 )
August 5 – Thomas Hall , English politician (d. 1667 )
August 6 – Barbara Strozzi , Italian singer and composer (d. 1677 )
August 7 – Anna Catherine Constance Vasa , Polish princess, daughter of King Sigismund III Vasa (d. 1651 )
August 15
August 21 – Sir John Borlase, 1st Baronet , English politician (d. 1672 )
August 28
August 29 – Jean-Baptiste Colbert , French minister of finance (d. 1683 )
September 20 – Sophie Elisabeth Pentz , daughter of Christian IV of Denmark (d. 1657 )
September 21 – Sir John Wray, 3rd Baronet , English politician (d. 1664 )
October 8 – Philipp von Zesen , German poet (d. 1689 )
October 10
October 14 – Sir John Bright, 1st Baronet , English politician (d. 1688 )
October 16 – Johann Friedrich König , German Lutheran theologian (d. 1664 )
October 18 – Jean Armand de Maillé-Brézé , French admiral (d. 1646 )
October 27 – Frederick Louis, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (d. 1681 )
November 5 – Philips Koninck , Dutch painter (d. 1688 )
November 7 – Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux , French writer known for his Historiettes (d. 1692 )
November 14 – Thomas Howard, 3rd Earl of Berkshire , English politician, earl (d. 1706 )
November 25 – Henry Mildmay , English politician (d. 1692 )
December 10 – Thomas Dyke , English politician (d. 1669 )
December 13 – Andrij Savka , Lemko bandit (d. 1661 )
December 17 – Prince Rupert of the Rhine , Bohemian-born Royalist commander in the English Civil War (d. 1682 )
December 28 – Antoine Furetière , French writer (d. 1688 )
December 31
Donald Cargill , Scottish Covenanter (d. 1681 )
Gu Mei , politically influential Chinese Gējì , poet and painter (d. 1664 )
Samuel Collins , English doctor and author (d. 1670 )
Francisco Fernández de la Cueva, 8th Duke of Alburquerque , Spanish military officer and viceroy (d. 1676 )
Willem Kalf , Dutch painter (d. 1693 )
Kumazawa Banzan , Japanese philosopher (d. 1691 )
Shalom Shabazi , Jewish Yemeni rabbi and poet (d. c. 1720 )
Wang Fuzhi , Chinese philosopher (d. 1692 )
1610
Princess Anna Maria of Sweden
Servant of God Matteo Ricci
King Henry IV of France
Thomas Tesdale
Adam Elsheimer
January 1
January 9 – Herman van der Mast , Dutch Renaissance painter from the Northern Netherlands (b. c. 1550 )
January 10 – Mateo de Oviedo , Archbishop of Dublin (b. 1547 )
February 4 – Hannibal Vyvyan , English politician (b. 1545 )
February 5 – Strange Jørgenssøn , Norwegian businessman (b. 1539 )
February 22 – Polykarp Leyser the Elder , German theologian (b. 1552 )
February 27 – Philippe Canaye , French diplomat (b. 1551 )
March 6 – Benedict Pereira , Spanish theologian (b. 1535 )
March 7 – Maria, Abbess of Quedlinburg , German abbess (b. 1571 )
March 19
March 20 – Princess Anna Maria of Sweden , Swedish royal (b. 1545 )
March 24 – Henry Cocke , English politician (b. 1538 )
March 28 – Wolfgang, Count of Hohenlohe-Weikersheim , German count (b. 1546 )
March 30 – Thomas Gorges , English knight (b. 1536 )
Caravaggio
July – Richard Knolles , English historian (b. 1545 )
July 14 – Francis Solanus , Spanish friar and missionary in South America (b. 1549 )
July 17 – Amandus Polanus , German writer (b. 1561 )
July 18 – Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio , Italian painter active in Rome (b. 1571 )
July 22 – Charles I, Duke of Mecklenburg (b. 1540 )
July 27 – Jacob van Langren , Dutch cartographer and globe-maker (b. 1525 )
August 20 – Stanisław Stadnicki , Polish nobleman (b. 1551 )
August 25 – Mabel Browne, Countess of Kildare , Irish noble (b. 1536 )
September 13 – Tomás de Borja y Castro , Spanish Catholic archbishop (b. 1551 )
September 19 – Frederick IV, Elector Palatine (b. 1574 )
September 22 – Jan Moretus , Belgian printer (b. 1543 )
1611
Juan de Ribera
Christian II, Elector of Saxony
Eleanor de' Medici
Charles IX of Sweden
January 6 – Juan de Ribera , Spanish Catholic archbishop (b. 1532 )
January 16 – Niiro Tadamoto , Japanese samurai (b. 1526 )
February 7 – Ruprecht von Eggenberg , Austrian general (b. 1546 )
February 12 – Henry Lee of Ditchley , English noble (b. 1533 )
February 26 – Antonio Possevino , Italian Jesuit protagonist of Counter Reformation, papal diplomat (b. 1533 )
March 2 – Ernest II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg , (b. 1564 )
March 3 – William Douglas, 10th Earl of Angus , son of William Douglas (b. 1552 )
March 5 – Shimazu Yoshihisa , Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1533 )
March 13 – Louis III, Count of Löwenstein since 1541 (b. 1530 )
March 17 – Princess Sophia of Sweden (b. 1547 )
March 20 – Johann Georg Gödelmann , German demonologist (b. 1559 )
July 9 – János Imreffy , Hungarian politician (b. 1559 )
July 26 – Horio Yoshiharu , Japanese warlord (b. 1542 )
August – Antoni Clarassó i Terès , Spanish priest
August 2 – Katō Kiyomasa , Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1561 )
August 9 – John Blagrave , English mathematician (b. 1561 )
August 12 – Herman van den Bergh , Dutch soldier in the Eighty Years' War (b. 1558 )
August 27 – Tomás Luis de Victoria , Spanish composer (b. c. 1548 )[156]
September 9 – Eleanor de' Medici , Italian noblewoman (b. 1567 )
September 17 – Johannes Corputius , Dutch engineer, cartographer and military leader (b. 1542 )
September 18 – John Augustus, Count Palatine of Lützelstein , German count (b. 1575 )
September 25 – Šurhaci , Chinese prince (b. 1564 )
1612
Leonard Holliday
Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah
Vincenzo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua
Anne Catherine of Brandenburg
Edward Seymour, Lord Beauchamp
John Salusbury
January 4 – Hendrik Laurenszoon Spiegel , Dutch writer (b. 1549 )
January 9 – Leonard Holliday , Lord Mayor of London, 1605-1606 (b. 1550 )
January 11 – Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah , fifth sultan of the Qutb Shahi Dynasty of Golkonda; founded the city of Hyderabad (b. 1565 )
January 12 – Charles III de Croÿ , Belgian noble (b. 1560 )
January 13 – Jane Dormer , English lady-in-waiting to Mary I (b. 1538 )
January 20 – Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor , Austrian Habsburg ruler (b. 1552 )[159]
February 6 – Christopher Clavius , German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1538 )
February 9 – Vincenzo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua (b. 1562 )
February 12 – Jodocus Hondius , Flemish cartographer (b. 1563 )
February 17 – Ernest of Bavaria , German Catholic bishop (b. 1554 )
February 18 – Roberto di Ridolfi , Italian conspirator against Elizabeth I of England (b. 1531 )[160]
February 21 – Christian Barnekow , Danish noble, explorer and diplomat (b. 1556 )
March 16 – Margaret Fiennes, 11th Baroness Dacre (b. 1541 )
March 18 – Bartholomew Legate , English anti-Trinitarian martyr (b. c. 1575 )
March 19 – Sophia Olelkovich Radziwill , Polish-Lithuanian noble (b. 1585 )
April 5 – Diana Scultori , Italian engraver
April 8 – Anne Catherine of Brandenburg (b. 1575 )
April 11
April 19 – Anne d'Escars de Givry , French Catholic cardinal (b. 1546 )
April 21 – David van Goorle , theologian and theoretical scientist (b. 1591 )
May – False Dmitry III , pretender to the Russian throne (secretly executed)[162]
May 19 – Gregorio Petrocchini , Italian Cardinal Bishop, Conclave member, Cardinal protector of the Augustines (b. 1535 )
May 24 – Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury , English statesman and spymaster (b. 1563 )
May 31 – Willem Isaacsz Swanenburg , Dutch engraver (b. 1580 )
June 5 – Arima Harunobu , Japanese daimyō (b. 1567 )
June 8 – Hans Leo Hassler , German composer (b. 1562 )
June 21 – Edward Seymour, Lord Beauchamp (b. 1561 )
June 26 – Roger Manners, 5th Earl of Rutland , eldest surviving son of John Manners (b. 1576 )
July 16 – Leonardo Donato , Doge of Venice (b. 1536 )
July 24
July 29 – Jacques Bongars , French scholar and diplomat (b. 1554 )[164]
August 3 – John Bond , English politician and classicist (b. 1550 )
August 4 – Hugh Broughton , English scholar (b. 1549 )
August 9 – Philipp Ludwig II, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg (1580–1612) (b. 1576 )
August 12 – Giovanni Gabrieli , Italian composer (b. c. 1554 )
August 15 – Michael Hicks , English politician (b. 1543 )
August 18 – Giacomo Boncompagni , Italian feudal lord of the 16th century (b. 1548 )
August 20 – Naitō Nobunari , Japanese samurai and daimyō of Omi Province (b. 1545 )
September 9 – Nakagawa Hidenari , Japanese warlord (b. 1570 )
September 12 – Tsar Vasili IV of Russia (b. 1552 )
September 13 – Karin Månsdotter , Queen of Sweden (b. 1550 )
September 24 – Johannes Lippius , German theologian, philosopher, composer, and music theorist (b. 1585 )[165]
September 27 – Piotr Skarga , Polish Jesuit and polemicist (b. 1536 )[166]
September 28 – Ernst Soner , German physician (b. 1572 )
October 7
October 10 – Bernardino Poccetti , Italian painter (b. 1548 )
October 23 – János Petki , Hungarian politician (b. 1572 )
October 28 – Edward Darcy , English politician (b. 1544 )
November 1 – Charles, Count of Soissons , French prince du sang and military commander in the struggles over religion and the throne (b. 1566 )
November 2 – Maurice, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg , 1581–1612 (b. 1551 )
November 6
November 9 – Paul Jenisch , German pastor (b. 1551 )
November 16 – William Stafford , English spy (b. 1554 )
November 20 – John Harington , English courtier, writer and inventor of a flush toilet (b. 1561 )[169]
November 23
November 26 – Thomas Walmsley , English judge (b. 1537 )
December 4 – Jacob Taets van Amerongen , Teutonic Knights commander (b. 1542 )
December 12 – Nicholas Mosley , Lord Mayor of London (b. 1527 )
December 22 – Francesco IV Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua (b. 1586 )[170]
1613
Juan García López-Rico
Ikeda Terumasa
Sigismund Báthory
January 2 – Salima Sultan Begum , Empress of the Mughal Empire (b. 1539 )
January 12 – George Blackwell , English Catholic archpriest (b. 1545 )
January 18 – Antoon Claeissens , Flemish Baroque painter (b. 1536 )
January 27 – Anna of Saxony , German noblewoman (b. 1567 )
January 28 – Thomas Bodley , English diplomat and library founder (b. 1545 )[171]
February 14 – Juan García López-Rico , Spanish Catholic priest from the Trinitarian Order, founded the Order of Discalced Carmelites (b. 1561 )
February 16 – Johannes Letzner , German Protestant priest and historian (b. 1531 )
February 27 – Pietro Facchetti , Italian painter (b. 1539 )
March 2 – Rudolph Snellius , Dutch linguist and mathematician (b. 1546 )
March 13 – Giovanni Battista Caccini , Italian artist (b. 1556 )
March 16
March 23 – Jerónimo de Ayanz y Beaumont , Spanish inventor (b. 1553 )
March 27 – Sigismund Báthory , Prince of Transylvania (b. 1572 )
April 27 – Robert Abercromby , Scottish Jesuit missionary (b. 1532 )
June 3 – Allahverdi Khan , Georgian-born Iranian general (b. 1590 )
June 8 – Cigoli , Italian painter (b. 1559 )
June 15 – Magdalena Moons , Dutch heroine (b. 1541 )
July 2 – Bartholomaeus Pitiscus , German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1561 )
July 19 – Nicolaus van Aelst , Flemish engraver (b. 1526 )
July 20 – Sebastian Lubomirski , Polish-Lithuanian nobleman (szlachcic ) (b. c. 1546 )
July 30 – Henry Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (b. 1564 )
August 1
August 7 – Thomas Fleming , English judge (b. 1544 )
August 14 – David Lindsay , Scottish bishop (b. 1531 )
August 18 – Giovanni Artusi , Italian composer (b. c. 1540 )
August 22 – Dominicus Baudius , Dutch historian and poet (b. 1561 )
August 25 – William Waldegrave , English Member of Parliament (b. 1540 )
September 8
September 14 – Thomas Overbury , English poet and essayist (murdered) (b. 1581 )
October 9 – Henry Constable , English poet (b. 1562 )
October 11 – John Petre, 1st Baron Petre , English politician (b. 1549 )
October 22 – Mathurin Régnier , French satirist (b. 1573 )
October 26 – Johann Bauhin , Swiss botanist (b. 1541 )
October 27 – Gabriel Báthory , Prince of Transylvania (b. 1589 )
November 4 – Cristóbal Rodríguez Juárez , Spanish Catholic archbishop (b. 1547 )
November 16 – Trajano Boccalini , Italian satirist (b. 1556 )
November 21 – Rose Lok , English Marian exile (b. 1526 )
November 23 – Charles Philippe de Croÿ, Marquis d’Havré , Belgian noble and politician (b. 1549 )
November 26 – Henry Berkeley, 7th Baron Berkeley , English politician (b. 1534 )
December 6 – Anton Praetorius , German pastor (b. 1560 )
December 7 – Simon VI, Count of Lippe , imperial count and ruler of the County of Lippe (Germany) since 1563 (b. 1554 )
date unknown
1614
Maeda Toshinaga
Johannes Magirus the elder
Man Singh I
Camillus de Lellis
January 2 – Serafino Porrecta , Italian theologian (b. 1536 )
January 21 – Morosina Morosini-Grimani , Venetian patrician and dogaressa (b. 1545 )
February 5 – Jakob Ebert , German theologian (b. 1549 )
February 13 – Thomas Cambell , Lord Mayor of London (b. 1536 )
February 23 – Murakoshi Naoyoshi , Japanese samurai (b. 1562 )
February 27 – John Harington, 2nd Baron Harington of Exton , England (b. 1592 )
February 28 – Jean Richardot the Younger , Belgian politician (b. 1570 )
March 5 – Thomas Pounde , English Jesuit lay brother (b. 1538 )
March 14 – Henrich Smet , Flemish physician (b. 1535 )
March 22 – Filippo Salviati , Italian astronomer (b. 1582 )
April 2 – Henri I de Montmorency , Marshal of France (b. 1534 )
April 7 – El Greco , or Domênikos Theotokópoulos (Greek: Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος), Cretian painter, sculptor and architect (b. 1541 )[173]
April 28 – John Egerton , English politician (b. 1551 )
May 3 – Sasbout Vosmeer , Dutch Apostolic Vicar (b. 1548 )
June 13 – Sengoku Hidehisa , Japanese daimyō (b. 1552 )
June 15 – Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton , important English aristocrat and courtier (b. 1540 )
June 17 – William Bathe , Irish Jesuit priest (b. 1564 )
June 27 – Maeda Toshinaga , Japanese daimyō (b. 1562 )
July 1
July 4 – Johannes Magirus the elder , German Lutheran theologian (b. 1537 )
July 6
July 14 – Camillus de Lellis , Italian saint (b. 1550 )
July 15 – Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme , French historian and biographer
July 16 – Tsarevich Ivan Dmitriyevich , pretender to the Russian throne, son of False Dmitry II (b. 1611 )
July 19 – Akizuki Tanenaga , Japanese samurai (b. 1567 )
July 28 – Felix Plater , Swiss physician (b. 1536 )
July 30 – Walter Cope , English noble (b. 1553 )
August 3 – François de Bourbon, Prince of Conti , third son of Louis I de Bourbon (b. 1558 )
August 11 – Lavinia Fontana , Italian painter (b. 1552 )[174]
August 21 – Elizabeth Báthory , Hungarian noblewoman and purported serial killer (b. 1560 )[175]
August 22 – Philipp Ludwig, Count Palatine of Neuburg , Duke of Palatinate-Neuburg from 1569 until 1614 (b. 1547 )
September – Giovanni de Macque , Dutch composer (b. c. 1550 )
September 21 – Jerome Gratian , Spanish Carmelite and writer (b. 1545 )
1615
Virginia de' Medici
John Ogilvie
Cherubino Alberti
Gervase Helwys
Gerard Reynst
January 15 – Virginia de' Medici , Italian princess (b. 1568 )
January 16 – Roger Fenton , English clergyman (b. 1565 )
January 31 – Claudio Acquaviva , Italian Jesuit priest, elected (in 1581 ) the 5th Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1543 )
February 4 – Giambattista della Porta , Italian scholar, polymath, playwright (b. 1535 )
February 3 or February 5 – Dom Justo Takayama , Japanese warlord (b. 1552 )
March 4 – Hans von Aachen , German painter (b. 1552 )
March 6 – Pieter Both , first Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1568 )
March 10 – John Ogilvie , Scottish Catholic Jesuit martyr (b. 1579 )
March 19 – Henry Pierrepont , English politician (b. 1546 )
March 27 – Margaret of Valois , Queen of France (b. 1553 )[176]
October 9 – Hasan Kafi Pruščak , Bosnian scholar and judge (b. 1544 )
October 16
October 18 – Cherubino Alberti , Italian engraver and painter (b. 1553 )
October 31 – Marcantonio Memmo , Doge of Venice (b. 1536 )
November 6 – Sir Richard Musgrave, 1st Baronet , English politician (b. 1585 )
November 14 – John Leveson , English politician (b. 1555 )
November 15 – Anne Turner , English murderer (b. 1576 )
November 20 – Gervase Helwys , English murderer (b. 1561 )
November 24 – Sethus Calvisius , German calendar reformer (b. 1556 )
November 28 – William Howard, 3rd Baron Howard of Effingham , English politician and Baron (b. 1577 )
November 29 – George Albert II, Margrave of Brandenburg (b. 1591 )
November – Edward Wright , English mathematician and cartographer (b. 1561 )
December 7 – Gerard Reynst , Dutch merchant (b. c. 1558 )
December 26 – August of Saxony , German prince (b. 1589 )
1616
Charles de Ligne
William Shakespeare
Miguel de Cervantes
Tokugawa Ieyasu
Jacob Le Maire
January 5 – Simeon Bekbulatovich , khan of the Qasim Tatars, Grand Duke of Muscovy and Tver
January 6 – Philip Henslowe , English theatre manager (b. 1550 )
January 18 – Charles de Ligne, 2nd Prince of Arenberg , Dutch noble (b. 1550 )
February 12 – Anna of Nassau-Dillenburg , Countess consort of Nassau-Weilburg (b. 1541 )
February 13 – Anders Sørensen Vedel , Danish priest and historian (b. 1542 )
February 15 – George Carey , English politician (b. 1541 )
February 18 – Archduke Maximilian Ernest of Austria , Austrian archduke (b. 1583 )
February 28
March 3 – Matthias de l'Obel , physician of James I of England (b. 1538 )
March 6 – Francis Beaumont , dramatist in the English Renaissance theatre (b. 1584 )[177]
March 8
March 19 – Johannes Fabricius , Frisian/German astronomer (b. 1587 )
March 21 – Giacomo Castelvetro , Italian writer (b. 1546 )
March 27 – George Wylde I , English lawyer and politician (b. 1550 )
March 31 – John Adolf, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (b. 1575 )
April 19 – Juan de Silva , Spanish military commander and governor of the Philippines
April 22 – Miguel de Cervantes , Spanish author (b. 1547 )
April 23
April 27 – Francesco Barbaro , Italian diplomat (b. 1546 )
May 4 – Magdalene of Brandenburg , Landgravine consort of Hesse-Darmstadt (1598–1616) (b. 1582 )
May 8 – Gilbert Talbot, 7th Earl of Shrewsbury , English politician and earl (b. 1552 )
May 24 – Margaret Clifford, Countess of Cumberland , British noble (b. 1560 )
May 30 – Thomas Parry , English politician (b. 1541 )
June 1 – Tokugawa Ieyasu , Japanese shōgun (b. 1543 )
June 4 – Adam Hieronim Sieniawski , Polish–Lithuanian noble (b. c. 1576 )
June 9 – Cornelis Schuyt , Dutch organist and composer (b. 1557 )
June 18 – Thomas Bilson , English bishop (b. 1547 )
June 19 – Henry Robinson , English bishop (b. 1553 )
October 10 – Countess Maria of Nassau (b. 1556 )
October 11 – Aleksander Józef Lisowski , Polish noble (szlachcic) (b. 1580 )
October 17 – John Pitts , Catholic scholar and writer (b. 1560 )
October 21 – Sakazaki Naomori , Japanese daimyō (b. 1563 )
October 23 – Leonhard Hutter , German theologian (b. 1563 )
October 27 – Johannes Praetorius , German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1537 )
November 3 – Agnes Hedwig of Anhalt , Abbess of Gernrode, Electress of Saxony, Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Sønderborg-Plön (b. 1573 )
November 8 – Robert Dormer, 1st Baron Dormer , English politician (b. 1551 )
November 14 – William Harris , English knight (b. 1556 )
November 20 – Matsumae Yoshihiro , Japanese daimyo of Ezochi (Hokkaidō) (b. 1548 )
December 6 – Ahmad Ibn al-Qadi , Moroccan writer, judge and mathematician (b. 1552 )
November 23 – Richard Hakluyt , English author, editor and translator (b. 1553 )
December 7 – Guillaume Fouquet de la Varenne , French chef (b. 1560 )
December 22 – Jacob Le Maire , Dutch mariner (b. 1585 )
December 24 – György Thurzó , Palatine of Hungary (b. 1567 )
December 31 – Jan Szczęsny Herburt , Polish political writer (b. 1567 )
1617
John Napier
Dorothea Maria of Anhalt
Emperor Go-Yozei
Saint Francisco Suarez
Charlotte de Sauve
Alphonsus Rodriguez
January 1 – Hendrik Goltzius , Dutch painter (b. 1558 )
January 6 – Dorothea of Denmark, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg from 1561 to 1592 as the consort of Duke William (b. 1546 )
January 16 – Wolf Dietrich Raitenau , Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg (b. 1559 )
January 17 – Faust Vrančić , Croatian inventor (b. 1551 )
January 28 – Karl II, Duke of Münsterberg-Oels , Duke of Oels and Duke of Bernstadt (b. 1545 )
February 3 – Prospero Alpini , Italian physician and botanist from the Republic of Venice (b. 1553 )
February 8 – Edward Talbot, 8th Earl of Shrewsbury , English politician and earl (b. 1561 )
February 11 – Giovanni Antonio Magini , Italian mathematician, cartographer and astronomer (b. 1555 )
February 16 – Kaspar Ulenberg , German theologian (b. 1549 )
March 1 – Edward Hoby , English politician (b. 1560 )
March 20 – François d'Aguilon , Belgian Jesuit mathematician (b. 1567 )
March 21 – Pocahontas , Algonquian (Native American) princess (b. c. 1596 )[179]
March 27 – George II, Duke of Pomerania , non-reigning Duke of Pomerania (b. 1582 )
July 8 – Leonora Dori , French noble (b. 1571 )
July 9 – John Herbert , Welsh politician (b. 1550 )
July 13 – Adam Wenceslaus, Duke of Cieszyn , Duke of Teschen (b. 1574 )
July 18 – Dorothea Maria of Anhalt (b. 1570 )
August 7 – Otto, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel , Hereditary Prince of Hesse-Kassel, Administrator of Hersfeld Abbey (b. 1594 )
August 8 – Frederick IV of Fürstenberg , German noble (b. 1563 )
August 13 – Johann Jakob Grynaeus , Swiss Protestant clergyman (b. 1540 )
August 24 – Rose of Lima , Peruvian saint (b. 1586 )
August 28 – William Willoughby, 3rd Baron Willoughby of Parham , English baron (b. 1584 )
September 9 – Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn , German bishop (b. 1545 )
September 25
September 27 – John Ernest of Nassau-Siegen , German general (b. 1582 )
September 30 – Charlotte de Sauve , French courtesan (b. 1551 )
October 10 – Bernardino Baldi , Italian mathematician and writer (b. 1553 )
October 11 – François Vranck , Dutch statesman and justice (b. 1555 )
October 14 – Isaac Arnauld , French noble (b. 1566 )
October 19 – David Hoeschel , German librarian (b. 1556 )
October 22 – Matthias Hafenreffer , German Lutheran theologian (b. 1561 )
October 27 – Ralph Winwood , English politician (b. c. 1563 )
October 31 – Alphonsus Rodriguez , Spanish Jesuit lay brother, saint (b. 1532 )
November 10 – Barnabe Rich , English soldier and writer (b. c. 1540 )
November 12 – Nicolas de Neufville, seigneur de Villeroy , secretary of state under four kings of France (b. 1543 )
November 17 – Princess Dorothea, Abbess of Quedlinburg (b. 1591 )
November 22 – Ahmed I , Ottoman Emperor (b. 1590 )
1618
Philip II, Duke of Pomerania
Marie of the Incarnation (Carmelite)
Nicolò Rusca
Albert Frederick, Duke of Prussia
Jakob Rem
January 6 – Margherita Gonzaga, Duchess of Ferrara (b. 1564 )
January 19 – Jacobus Zaffius , Dutch Catholic provost (b. 1535 )
January 24 – Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham , English peer and traitor (b. 1564 )
January 29 – John Dackombe , Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (b. 1570 )
February 3 – Philip II, Duke of Pomerania -Stettin (b. 1573 )
February 10 – Feliks Kryski , Grand Chancellor of Poland (b. 1562 )
February 14 – Paolo Emilio Sfondrati , Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1560 )
February 20 – Philip William, Prince of Orange , eldest son of William the Silent, by his first wife Anna van Egmont (b. 1554 )
February 25 – Elizabeth Spencer, Baroness Hunsdon , English baroness (b. 1552 )
February 27 – Anne Lyon, Countess of Kinghorne , Scottish countess (b. 1579 )
March 5
March 16 – Giovanni Bembo , Doge of Venice (b. 1543 )[181]
March 23 – James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Abercorn , Scottish politician (b. c. 1575 )
March 26 – Frederick Magnus, Count of Erbach-Fürstenau (1606–1618) (b. 1575 )
March 31 – Pedro Cornejo de Pedrosa , Spanish theologian (b. 1536 )
April – Chief Powhatan (proper name Wahunsenacawh), Algonquin (indigenous American) leader, father of Pocahontas (b. c. 1547 )
April 5 – Robert Barker , English politician (b. 1563 )
April 14 – Giovanni Battista Zuccato , Italian Catholic prelate, Bishop of Nusco (1607–1614) (b. 1543 )
April 18 – Marie of the Incarnation , Carmelite (b. 1566 )
May 9 – Nicolò Donato , Doge of Venice (b. 1539 )
May 24 – John George I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (1603–1618) (b. 1567 )
May 31 – Sabina Catharina of East Frisia , Countess of Rietberg (1586–1618) (b. 1582 )
June 7 – Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr , English Governor of Virginia (b. 1577 )
June 21 – Kasper Hassler , German musician (b. 1562 )
Sir Walter Raleigh
October 12 – Jakob Rem , Austrian Jesuit (b. 1546 )
October 24 – Elisabeth of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel , German noblewoman (b. 1567 )
October 29 – Sir Walter Raleigh , English soldier, politician, courtier, explorer, Virginia settler, historian, poet and spy (executed) (b. 1552 of 1554)[182]
October 30
November 2 – Maximilian III, Archduke of Austria (b. 1558 )
November 14 – Anna Maria of Brandenburg , Duchess Consort of Pomerania (b. 1567 )
December 6 – Jacques Davy Duperron , French cardinal (b. 1556 )
December 7 – Bernardo de Sandoval y Rojas , Spanish Catholic cardinal, Grand Inquisitor (b. 1546 )
December 9 – Valentine Knightley , English politician (b. 1555 )
December 10 – Giulio Caccini , Italian composer (b. 1551 )[183]
December 14 – Anna of Tyrol , Holy Roman Empress (b. 1585 )
December 17 – Roger Puleston , Welsh politician (b. 1565 )[184]
1619
Lucilio Vanini
Taj Bibi Bilqis Makani
Lawrence of Brindisi
Marko Krizin
Sur Singh
Ludovico Carracci
January 7 – Nicholas Hilliard , English miniature painter (b. c. 1547 )
January 11 – Diane de France , Duchess of Angoulême (b. 1538 )
January 15 – Thomas Clinton, 3rd Earl of Lincoln , English politician (b. 1568 )
January 20 – Éléonore de Bourbon , Dutch princess (b. 1587 )
February 3 – Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham , English conspirator (b. 1564 )
February 9 – Lucilio Vanini , Italian philosopher (b. 1585 )
February 12 – Pierre de Larivey , Italian-born French dramatist (b. 1549 )
February 16 – William Couper , Scottish bishop of Galloway (b. 1568 )
March 2
March 5 – Demeter Naprágyi , Hungarian Catholic archbishop (b. 1564 )
March 13 – Richard Burbage , English actor (b. c. 1567 )[186]
March 15
March 18 – Chō Tsuratatsu , Japanese samurai (b. 1546 )
March 20
April 5 – Alexander Home, 1st Earl of Home , Scottish nobleman (b. 1566 )
April 10 – Thomas Jones , Anglican Archbishop of Dublin (b. c. 1550 )
April 16 – Denis Calvaert , Flemish painter (b. 1540 )
April 18 – Taj Bibi Bilqis Makani , Mughal empress (b. 1573 )
April /May – William Larkin , English court portrait painter (b. early 1580s)
May – John Overall , English bishop (b. 1559 )
May 13 – Johan van Oldenbarnevelt , Dutch statesman (b. 1547 )
May 21 – Hieronymus Fabricius , Italian anatomist (b. 1537 )
May 23 – Stephen Soame , Lord Mayor of London (b. 1540 )
June 18 – Martin Fréminet , French painter (b. 1567 )
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