1600s (decade) - Wikiwand

The 1600s (pronounced "sixteen-hundreds") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on 1 January 1600, and ended on 31 December 1609.

The term "sixteen-hundreds" could also mean the entire century from 1 January 1600 to 31 December 1699.

The decade was a period of significant political, scientific, and artistic advancement. European Colonies such as Virginia were established in the late 1600s. Galileo Galilei and Johannes Kepler made significant contributions to science and astronomy. The Polish-Swedish War saw the Battle of Kokenhausen in 1601, where Polish horsemen led by Krzysztof Radziwiłł defeated Swedish attackers under Carl Gyllenhielm.

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1600

January–March

January 1 – Scotland adopts January 1 as New Year's Day instead of March 25.
January 20 – Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, renews the Nine Years' War (Ireland) against England with an invasion of Munster.^[1]^[2]
January 24 – Sebald de Weert makes the first recorded sighting of the Falkland Islands.^[3]
February 17 – On his way to be burned at the stake for heresy in Rome, Giordano Bruno has his tongue "imprisoned" after he refuses to stop talking.^[4]
February 19 – The Huaynaputina volcano in Peru erupts, in what is still the worst recorded volcanic eruption.
March 20 – Linköping Bloodbath: Five Swedish nobles are publicly executed by decapitation and Polish–Swedish King Sigismund III Vasa is de facto deposed as ruler of Sweden.

April–June

April 19 – The first Dutch ship ever to arrive in Japan, the Liefde ("Love"), anchors in Sashifu, in the Bungo Province (modern-day Usuki in Ōita Prefecture). The sailors present on this ship are William Adams, Jan Joosten van Lodensteijn, Jacob Quaeckernaeck and Melchior van Santvoort.
May 27 – Michael the Brave becomes ruler of Wallachia, Transylvania and Moldavia, formally uniting the three Danubian Principalities under one Romanian ruler.
June 5 – Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, the former Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and Chancellor of the University of Dublin, is put on trial in England before a commission of 18 men, after being charged with malfeasance. He is deprived of his main business, a monopoly on sweet wines, and stripped of his noble title. In revenge, he attempts to organize a coup d'etat to overthrow Queen Elizabeth and fails in his plot.
June 9 – Yi Hang-bok becomes the new Chief State Councillor of Korea (the Yeonguijeong), equivalent to a prime minister, after being appointed by King Seonjo to replace Yi San-hae.
June 13 – Barrister Nicholas Fuller is granted the exclusive right in England to manufacture playing cards.^[5]
June 25 – In England, a fire destroys much of the town of North Walsham, Norfolk, burning down 118 homes, 70 shops, and most of the stalls in the market square. The fire is traced to the home of one person who tries to flee town after the blaze begins. Many of the persons left homeless are given shelter at the St Nicholas Church.

July–September

July 2 – Eighty Years' War (Dutch War of Independence) – Battle of Nieuwpoort: The Dutch Republic gains a tactical victory over the Spanish Empire.^[6]
August 5 – The brothers Alexander Ruthven and John Ruthven, 3rd Earl of Gowrie, are killed during a failed attempt to kidnap or murder King James VI of Scotland at their home.
September 18 – The Battle of Mirăslău takes place within Transylvania as Hungarian troops, backed by the Holy Roman Empire, triumph over the Principality of Wallachia, backed by Poland. Hungarian General Giorgio Basta brings 30,000 men against the 22,000 commanded by Wallachia's ruler Michael the Brave. The Wallachians sustain more than 5,000 dead and wounded.
September 24 – All 130 crew of the Dutch Republic ship Hoop die when the merchantman sinks in a storm while traveling in the Pacific Ocean between the Hawaiian Islands and Japan.^[7] The Liefde, a ship accompanying Hoop, is badly damaged but survives; all but 24 of its crew of more than 100 die from starvation and thirst after drifting more than six months before arriving in Japan on April 19, 1601.

October–December

October 6 – The première of Jacopo Peri's Euridice, the earliest known fully surviving work of modern opera, takes place in Florence for the wedding of Henry IV of France and Marie de' Medici. Emilio de' Cavalieri stages the production.^[8]
October 8 – The basic legal system for the Republic of San Marino goes into effect during the service of captains regent Girolamo Gozi and Francesco Giannini.
October 20 – Persian diplomats, led by Husayn 'Ali Beg of Persia, and Englishman Anthony Shirley (who serves as translator) arrive in Prague to meet with Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor.^[9]
October 21 – The Battle of Sekigahara occurs in what is now present-day Gifu Prefecture, Japan, where the Eastern Army led by Tokugawa Ieyasu emerges victorious against the Western Army led by Ishida Mitsunari. The battle ends the Sengoku period and grants the Tokugawa clan nominal control over Japan, establishing the Tokugawa shogunate with Tokugawa Ieyasu as shogun.
November 7 – Emperor Rudolf II grants an audience in Prague to Persian diplomats Husayn 'Ali Beg and Anthony Shirley, and present the offer of Persia's King Abbas the Great to supply weapons to the Empire in their fight against the Ottomans.^[9]^[10]
November 15 – Thessaly rebellion: Greek farmers in Thessaly, incited by Bishop Dionysios Skylosophos, begin an uprising against the Ottoman Empire, with violence in an area bounded by Trikala and Karditsa and the surrounding mountains, but the rebellion is suppressed by the Ottomans in a few days.^[11]
December 31 – The East India Company is granted a Royal charter in the Kingdom of England for trade with Asia.

Date unknown

Approximate date – The Lutheran orthodox campaign intensifies, to reinforce the Book of Concord.
Caister Castle in England falls into ruin.
Sumo wrestling becomes a professional sport in Japan.
William Shakespeare's plays Henry IV, Part 2, Henry V, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Much Ado About Nothing are published in London.^[2]
William Gilbert publishes De Magnete, one of the first significant scientific books published in England, describing the Earth's magnetic field, and the beginning of modern geomagnetism.
Fabritio Caroso's dance manual Nobiltà de dame is published.

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Births

1600

January 1 – Friedrich Spanheim, Calvinistic theology professor at the University of Leiden (d. 1649)
January 17 – Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Spanish playwright (d. 1681)^[119]
January 22 – Elisabet Juliana Banér, Swedish noble (d. 1640)
January 23 – Alexander Keirincx, Flemish painter (d. 1652)
January 28 – Pope Clement IX (d. 1669)^[120]
February – Edmund Calamy the Elder, English Presbyterian (d. 1666)
February 1 – Johan Evertsen, Dutch admiral (d. 1666)
February 2 – Gabriel Naudé, French librarian and scholar (d. 1653)
February 6 – Matthew Brend, English landowner (d. 1659)
February 9 – Jean-Joseph Surin, French Jesuit writer (d. 1665)
February 24 – Manuel António of Portugal, Dutch-Portuguese nobleman (d. 1666)
February 26 – Matsudaira Norinaga, Japanese daimyō (d. 1654)
March 3
- George Ghica, Prince of Wallachia (d. 1664)
- Robert Roberthin, German poet (d. 1648)
March 19 – Anders Bille, Danish general (d. 1657)
March 26 – Matthew Marvin, Sr., Connecticut settler (d. 1678)

April 11 – Jacques Buteux, French missionary (d. 1652)
April 13 – Duke Johann Wilhelm of Saxe-Altenburg, colonel in the Saxon Army (d. 1632)
April 22 – Alessandro dal Borro, Austrian field marshal (d. 1656)
May 25 – Thomas Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Haddington, Scottish noble (d. 1640)
May 31 – Empress Xiaoduanwen of the Qing Dynasty (d. 1649)
June 26
- Sir Richard Grenville, 1st Baronet, English Royalist leader (baptised;^[121] d. 1658)
- Juan de Palafox y Mendoza, Spanish politician, clergyman (d. 1659)
June 29 – Maria Maddalena de' Medici, Italian princess (d. 1633)

July 1 – George Gobat, French theologian (d. 1679)
July 15 – Jan Cossiers, Flemish painter (d. 1671)
July 20 – Sir Edward Acton, 1st Baronet, Sheriff of Shropshire (d. 1659)
July 22
- Sir Hugh Cholmeley, 1st Baronet, English politician (d. 1657)
- Michel de Marolles, French translator and churchman (d. 1681)
August 7 – Eleonore Marie of Anhalt-Bernburg, Duchess consort of Mecklenburg-Güstrow (d. 1657)
August 16 – Maria Celeste, Italian nun, daughter of Galileo Galilei (d. 1634)
August 24 – Antoine de Laloubère, French Jesuit mathematician (d. 1664)
August 29 – John Stawell, English Member of Parliament and governor of Taunton (d. 1662)
September 5 – Loreto Vittori, Italian singer and composer (d. 1670)
September 19
- Hermann Busenbaum, German Jesuit theologian (d. 1668)
- John Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (d. 1628)
September 29 – Sir Thomas Aston, 1st Baronet, English politician (d. 1645)
September 30 – Francis Bacon, English politician and Ipswich MP (d. 1663)

October 1 – Dirk Graswinckel, Dutch jurist (d. 1666)
October 2 – Petronio Veroni, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Boiano (1652–1653) (d. 1653)
October 4 – Giovanni Paolo Oliva, Italian Jesuit (d. 1681)
November – John Ogilby, English writer and cartographer (d. 1676)
November 15 – Aniello Falcone, Italian Baroque painter (d. 1665)
November 19
- Lieuwe van Aitzema, Dutch historian and statesman (d. 1669)
- Charles I, King of England, Scotland and Ireland (d. 1649)^[122]
December 12 – Denis of the Nativity, French sailor and cartographer (d. 1638)
December 14 – Anna Magdalene of Hanau, German countess (d. 1673)
December 15 – Selius Marselis, Dutch/Norwegian tradesman (d. 1663)
December 20 – Nicolas Sanson, French cartographer (d. 1667)
December – Marie de Rohan, French courtier and political activist (d. 1679)

Marin le Roy de Gomberville, French poet and novelist (d. 1674)
Anna Alojza Ostrogska, Polish noblewoman (d. 1654)
William Prynne, English Puritan politician (d. 1669)
Brian Walton, English bishop and scholar (d. 1661)

Martine Bertereau, French mineralogist
Jonas Bronck, Swedish colonist in America (d. 1643)
Dud Dudley, first Englishman to smelt iron ore with coke (d. 1684)
Piaras Feiritéar, Irish language poet (d. 1653)
Samuel Hartlib, British scholar (d. 1662)
Claude Lorrain, French Baroque painter, draughtsman and engraver (d. 1682)
Samuel Rutherford, Scottish theologian and controversialist (d. 1660)

1601

January 8 – Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Spanish prose writer (d. 1658)
January 19 – Guido Cagnacci, Italian painter (d. 1663)
February 4 – Shi Kefa, Chinese Ming Dynasty official (d. 1645)
February 21 – Carolus Mulerius, Dutch Hispanist (d. 1638)
February 22 – Pierre Chanut, French diplomat (d. 1662)
March 7 – Johann Michael Moscherosch, German statesman, satirist (d. 1669)
March 19 – Alonzo Cano, Spanish painter (d. 1667)
March 20 – Henri, Count of Harcourt (d. 1666)
March 22 – John Scudamore, 1st Viscount Scudamore, English politician and Viscount (d. 1671)
March 31 – Jakov Mikalja, Italian linguist and lexicographer (d. 1654)

May – Spencer Compton, 2nd Earl of Northampton (d. 1643)
May 3 – Nathaniel Dickinson, American settler (d. 1676)
May 27 – Antoine Daniel, Jesuit missionary at Sainte-Marie among the Hurons (d. 1648)
June 5 – John Trapp, English theologian (d. 1669)
June 6 – Hendrick Bloemaert, Dutch painter (d. 1672)
June 21 – Godfrey Henschen, Jesuit hagiographer (d. 1681)
June 23 – Anna Maria of Ostfriesland, German noblewoman (d. 1634)
June 26 – Dorothea of Saxe-Altenburg, Duchess consort of Saxe-Eisenach (d. 1675)

July 17 – Emmanuel Maignan, French physicist and theologian (d. 1676)
July 18 – Philip I, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe (1640–1681) (d. 1681)
July 20 – Robert Wallop, English politician (d. 1667)
July 23 – János Szalárdi, Hungarian historian (d. 1666)
July 30
- Anne Eleonore of Hesse-Darmstadt, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg by marriage (d. 1659)
- Richard Onslow, English MP (d. 1664)
August 9 – Matthias Sention, Sr., Connecticut settler (d. 1669)
August 11 – John Evelyn, English politician (d. 1685)
August 15 – John Campanius, Swedish Lutheran minister in New Sweden (d. 1683)
August 22 – Georges de Scudéry, French novelist, dramatist and poet (d. 1667)
September 13
- Axel Urup, Danish general (d. 1671)
- Jan Brueghel the Younger, Flemish painter (d. 1678)
September 22 – Anne of Austria, queen of Louis XIII of France and regent of France (d. 1666)^[123]
September 27 – King Louis XIII of France (d. 1643)^[124]

October 7 – Florimond de Beaune, French mathematician and jurist (d. 1652)
October 9 – Fra Bonaventura Bisi, Italian painter (d. 1659)
October 24 – Alvise Contarini, Doge of Venice (d. 1684)
October 25 – John Frederick, Lord Mayor of London (d. 1685)
October 26 – Jan Reynst, Dutch art collector (d. 1646)
November 3 – Henri, Duke of Verneuil, French bishop (d. 1682)
November 14 – John Eudes, French missionary (d. 1680)
November 15 – Cecco Bravo, Italian painter (d. 1661)
December 25 – Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha (1640–1675) and Saxe-Altenburg (1672–1675) (d. 1675)

William Coddington, first governor of Rhode Island (d. 1678)
Catherine Lepère, French midwife and abortion provider (k. 1679)
Jacques Gaffarel, French librarian and astrologer (d. 1681)
Cornelis Coning, Dutch engraver and mayor of Haarlem (d. 1671)

William Brooke, 12th Baron Cobham, English politician (d. 1643)
Adrian Scrope, English regicide (d. 1660)
Rose of Turaida, famous Latvian murder victim (d. 1620)
François Tristan l'Hermite, French dramatist (d. 1655)
Edward Somerset, 2nd Marquess of Worcester (d. 1667)

1602

January 2
- Rodrigo Ponce de León, 4th Duke of Arcos, Spanish noble (d. 1658)
- Sir Thomas Twisden, 1st Baronet, English politician (d. 1683)
January 14 – Sir Henry Slingsby, 1st Baronet, English baronet (d. 1658)
January 18 – Robert Stuart, Duke of Kintyre and Lorne, fifth child of James VI of Scots and Anne of Denmark (d. 1602)
January 19 – Anna Maria Antigó, Spanish Catholic nun (d. 1676)
January 24 – Mildmay Fane, 2nd Earl of Westmorland, English politician (d. 1666)
January 29 – Countess Amalie Elisabeth of Hanau-Münzenberg, Regent of Hesse-Kassel (1637–1650) (d. 1651)
January 31 – Adam Billaut, French poet, carpenter (d. 1662)
February 2 – Jeanne des Anges, French Ursuline nun in Loudun (d. 1665)
February 12 – Michelangelo Cerquozzi, Italian painter (d. 1660)
February 13 – William V, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (d. 1637)
February 14 – Francesco Cavalli, Italian composer of the early Baroque period (d. 1676)
February 16 – Eleonore Dorothea of Anhalt-Dessau, Duchess of Saxe-Weimar by marriage (d. 1664)
February 18
- Pieter Meulener, Flemish Baroque painter (d. 1654)
- Per Brahe the Younger, Swedish soldier and statesman (d. 1680)
March 12 – Juan Velez, Spanish Catholic prelate who was appointed Bishop of Cebu (d. 1661)
March 18 – Jacques de Billy, French Jesuit mathematician (d. 1679)
March 24 – Edward Leigh, English writer (d. 1671)
March 27 – Sir Christopher Yelverton, 1st Baronet, English politician (d. 1654)
March 29
- John Arrowsmith, English theologian and academic (d. 1659)
- John Lightfoot, English churchman and rabbinical scholar (d. 1675)

April – William Lawes, English composer and musician (d. 1645)
April 2 – Mary of Jesus of Ágreda, Franciscan abbess and spiritual writer (d. 1665)
April 12 – Daniel Knudsen Bildt, Dano-Norwegian military officer and large estate owner in Norway (d. 1651)
April 28 – Tokugawa Yorinobu, Japanese nobleman (d. 1671)
April 30 – Robert Baillie, Scottish divine and historical writer (d. 1662)
May 1 – William Lilly, English astrologer (d. 1681)
May 2 – Athanasius Kircher, German scholar (d. 1680)
May 10 – Samuel Newman, colonial Massachusetts clergyman (d. 1663)
May 12 – Dorothea Augusta of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp, German duchess (d. 1682)
May 26 – Philippe de Champaigne, French painter (d. 1674)
June 2 – Rudolf Christian, Count of East Frisia, ruler of East Frisia in the early years of the Thirty Years' War (d. 1628)

July 8 – François Perrochel, French cleric (d. 1682)
July 9 – Maeda Gen'i, Japanese Buddhist priest
July 14 – Cardinal Mazarin, French statesman (d. 1661)^[125]
July 15 – John Bradshaw, English judge and regicide (d. 1659)
July 18 – Samuel Stone, Connecticut Puritan minister (d. 1663)
July 26 – Ana de los Angeles Monteagudo, Peruvian nun (d. 1686)
August 10 – Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician (d. 1675)
August 23 – Sir John Marsham, 1st Baronet, English politician (d. 1685)
August 31 – Amalia of Solms-Braunfels, Princess consort to Frederick Henry (d. 1675)
September 1 – Peregrine Hoby, English politician (d. 1679)
September 17 – Sir Richard Newdigate, 1st Baronet, English politician (d. 1678)
September 29 – Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of Northumberland, English military leader (d. 1668)

October 3 – Arnold Braemes, English politician (d. 1681)
October 9 – Robert Caesar, English politician (d. 1637)
October 12 – William Chillingworth, controversial English churchman (d. 1644)
November 6 – William Morice, English politician (d. 1676)
November 17 – Agnes of Jesus, French Catholic nun (d. 1634)
November 20 – Otto von Guericke, German inventor and Mayor of Magdeburg (d. 1686)^[126]
November 22 – Elisabeth of France, queen of Philip IV of Spain (d. 1644)
November 23 – Louis Philip, Count Palatine of Simmern-Kaiserslautern, Prince of Paltinate (d. 1655)
November 27 – Chiara Margarita Cozzolani, Italian abbess and composer (d. 1670)
December 4 – Johann Hülsemann, German theologian (d. 1661)
December 7
- Anne Holck, Danish noble and war heroine (d. 1660)
- Bartholomew Mastrius, Italian theologian (d. 1673)
December 18 – Simonds d'Ewes, English antiquarian and politician (d. 1650)
December 26 – Sir Norton Knatchbull, 1st Baronet, English politician (d. 1685)

John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton (d. 1678)
Caesar, duc de Choiseul, French marshal and diplomat (d. 1675)
John Greaves, English mathematician and antiquary (d. 1652)
Jean-Baptiste Budes, Comte de Guébriant, marshal of France (d. 1643)
Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester, English soldier (d. 1671)
Henry Marten, English lawyer, politician and regicide (d. 1680)
Theodorus Moretus, Flemish mathematician (d. 1667)
Nectarius of Jerusalem, Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem (d. 1676)
Dudley North, 4th Baron North, English politician (d. 1677)
Katarzyna Ostrogska, Polish noblewoman (d. 1642)
Antoine de l'Age, duc de Puylaurens, French courtier (d. 1635)
Eleonora Ramirez di Montalvo, Italian educator (d. 1659)

Owen Feltham, English religious writer (d. 1668)
Richard Óge Martyn, Irish politician (d. 1648)
Salomon van Ruysdael, Dutch landscape painter (d. 1670)

1603

January 3 – Paul Stockmann, German hymnwriter (d. 1636)
January 27
- Sir Harbottle Grimston, 2nd Baronet, English lawyer and politician, Speaker in 1660 (d. 1685)
- Humphrey Mackworth, English politician, lawyer and judge (d. 1654)
January 30 – David Denicke, German jurist and hymnwriter (d. 1680)
January – Shackerley Marmion, English dramatist (d. 1639)
February 2 – Louise de Bourbon, French noble (d. 1637)
February 7 – Friederich Stellwagen, German organ builder (d. 1660)
February 12 – Friedrich Wilhelm II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg (1639–1669) (d. 1669)
March 2 – Pietro Novelli, Italian painter (d. 1647)
March 13 – Ivan III Drašković, Croatian nobleman and soldier (d. 1648)
March 18 – Simon Bradstreet, English colonial magistrate (d. 1697)
March 21 bapt. – Samuel Luke, English politician (d. 1670)

April 6 – Simon Paulli, Danish physician (d. 1680)
April 10 – Christian, Prince-Elect of Denmark (d. 1647)
April 19 – Michel le Tellier, French statesman (d. 1685)
April 21 – Chamaraja Wodeyar VI, King of Mysore (d. 1637)
April 24 – Thomas Allen, English politician (d. 1681)
May 18 – Herbert Croft, English churchman (d. 1691)
June 3 – Pietro Paolini, Italian painter (d. 1681)
June 17 – Joseph of Cupertino, Italian saint (d. 1663)
June 24 – Maria Overlander van Purmerland, Dutch noble (d. 1678)

July 11
- Sibylle Christine of Anhalt-Dessau, Princess of Anhalt-Dessau (d. 1686)
- Kenelm Digby, English privateer and alchemist (d. 1665)^[127]
July 12 – Edward Benlowes, English poet (d. 1676)
July 23 – Axel Lillie, Swedish soldier and politician (d. 1662)
July 27 – Alonso de Ovalle, Chilean priest and historian (d. 1651)
August 9 – Johannes Cocceius, Dutch theologian (d. 1669)
August 17 – Lennart Torstensson, Swedish Field Marshal, Privy Councillour and Governor-General (d. 1651)
August 24 – Abu al-Ghazi Bahadur, Khan of Khiva, historian (d. 1663)
September 10 – Henri Valois, French historian (d. 1676)
September 14 – John Vaughan, Welsh judge (d. 1674)^[128]
September 15 – Tokugawa Yorifusa, Japanese nobleman (d. 1661)

October 2 – Sir John Yonge, 1st Baronet, English politician (d. 1663)
October 20 – Simon de Vos, Flemish painter (d. 1676)
November 10 – Agneta de Graeff van Polsbroek, Dutch noble (d. 1656)
November 16 – Augustyn Kordecki, Polish prior of the Jasna Góra Monastery (d. 1673)
November 24 – John, Count of Nassau-Idstein (1629–1677) (d. 1677)
December 21
- Jean de Launoy, French historian (d. 1678)
- Roger Williams, English theologian and colonist (d. 1684)

Abel Janszoon Tasman, Dutch seafarer and explorer (d. 1659)
Louis Abelly, French monk and priest (d. 1691)
Margareta Brahe, Swedish noble (d. 1669)
John Ashburnham, English Member of Parliament (d. 1671)
Daniel Blagrave, English Member of Parliament (d. 1668)
Valentin Conrart, one of the founders of the Académie française (d. 1675)^[129]
Denis Gaultier, French lutenist and composer (d. 1672)

Aernout van der Neer, Dutch painter (d. 1677)
Alexandre de Prouville, French statesman and soldier (d. 1670)
William Stone, Colonial governor of Maryland (d. c. 1660)

1604

January 4 – Jakob Balde, German Latinist (d. 1668)
February 2 – Juan de Leyva de la Cerda, conde de Baños, Spanish noble (d. 1678)
February 24 – Arcangela Tarabotti, born Elena Tarabotti, Venetian nun and feminist (d. 1652)
March 10 – Johann Rudolf Glauber, German-Dutch alchemist and chemist (approximate date; d. 1670)^[130]
March 19 – King John IV of Portugal (d. 1656)
March 23 – Girolamo Colonna, Catholic cardinal (d. 1666)

April 5 – Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1675)^[131]
April 9 – Duke Francis Henry of Saxe-Lauenburg (d. 1658)
April 17
- Giovanni Giacomo Barbelli, Italian painter (d. 1656)
- Frans Luycx, Flemish Baroque painter (d. 1668)
April 22 – Peter Venables, Welsh politician (d. 1669)
April 28 – Joris Jansen Rapelje, Early Dutch settler in colonial North America (d. 1662)
May 1 – Louis, Count of Soissons (d. 1641)
May 4 – Sir Hugh Owen, 1st Baronet, English politician (d. 1670)
May 10 – Jean Mairet, classical French dramatist who wrote both tragedies and comedies (d. 1686)
May 17 – Vincent Baron, French Dominican theologian writer (d. 1674)
May 28 – Catherine of Brandenburg, Princess of Transylvania (1629–1630) (d. 1649)
June 4 – Claudia de' Medici (d. 1648)
June 10 – John Manners, 8th Earl of Rutland, English politician when he inherited the peerage (d. 1679)
June 17 – John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen (d. 1679)
June 28 – Heinrich Albert, German composer and poet (d. 1651)
June 30 – Margaret Elisabeth of Leiningen-Westerburg, Regent of Hesse-Homburg (d. 1667)

July 8 – Christiaen van Couwenbergh, Dutch painter (d. 1667)
July 25 – Dorothea Diana of Salm, German noblewoman (d. 1672)
August 4 – François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac, French author (d. 1676)
August 12 – Tokugawa Iemitsu, Japanese shōgun (d. 1651)
August 16 – Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar, general in the Thirty Years' War (d. 1639)
August 25 – Shang Kexi, Chinese general (d. 1676)
September 13 – Sir William Brereton, 1st Baronet, English soldier and politician (d. 1661)
September 21 – Angelo Michele Colonna, Italian painter (d. 1687)

October 14 – Nils Brahe, Swedish soldier and younger brother of Per Brahe (d. 1632)
October 22 – Simon Le Moyne, French missionary (d. 1665)
October 31
- Luigi Baccio del Bianco, Italian painter (d. 1657)
- Krisztina Nyáry, Hungarian noblewoman (d. 1641)
November 3 – Osman II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1622)
November 6 – George Ent, English scientist (d. 1689)
November 7
- Bernard of Offida, Italian saint (d. 1694)
- Jacques Leneuf de La Poterie, Politician (d. 1687)
November 26 – Johannes Bach, German composer and musician (d. 1673)
December 7 – Ambrose Corbie, English Jesuit teacher (d. 1649)
December 10 – David Barry, 1st Earl of Barrymore, Irish noble (d. 1642)

Jasper Mayne, English dramatist (d. 1672)
Isaac Ambrose, English Puritan divine (d. 1664)
Menasseh Ben Israel, Jewish Rabbi (d. 1657)
Giovanni Battista Michelini, Italian painter (d. 1655)
Edward Pococke, English Orientalist and biblical scholar (d. 1691)

Abraham Bosse, French engraver and artist (d. 1676)
Egbert Bartholomeusz Kortenaer, Dutch admiral (d. 1665)

1605

January 16 – Shahryar, fifth and youngest son of the Mughal Emperor Jahangir (d. 1628)
January 17 – Anthony Irby, English politician (d. 1682)
February 1 – Isaac Aboab da Fonseca, Portuguese Sephardic rabbi (d. 1693)
February 17 – Luca Ferrari, Italian painter (d. 1654)
February 18
- Juan de Almoguera, Roman Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Lima (1673–1676) and Bishop of Arequipa (1659–1673) (d. 1676)
- Abraham Ecchellensis, Lebanese Maronite philosopher (d. 1664)
February 20 – Sir John Lowther, 1st Baronet, of Lowther, English politician (d. 1675)
March 1 – James Wriothesley, Lord Wriothesley, English politician (d. 1624)
March 2 – René Menard, Canadian explorer (d. 1661)
March 3 – George Horner, English politician (d. 1677)
March 14 – Francis Davies, Welsh bishop (d. 1675)^[132]
March 17 – George II, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1626–1661) (d. 1661)

April 8
- King Philip IV of Spain (d. 1665)^[133]
- Mary Stuart, English-Scottish princess (d. 1607)
April 18 – Giacomo Carissimi, Italian composer (d. 1674)
April 19 – Orazio Benevoli, Italian composer (d. 1672)
April 30 – Peder Winstrup, Bishop of Lund (d. 1679)
May 7 – Patriarch Nikon of Moscow, Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church (d. 1681)
May 16 – Federico Ubaldo della Rovere, Duke of Urbino, Italian noble (d. 1623)
May 29 – Hendrick van Anthonissen, Dutch painter (d. 1656)
June 15 – Thomas Randolph, English poet and dramatist (d. 1635)
June 22 – Andrea Bolgi, Italian sculptor (d. 1656)

July 6 – Ulrich II, Count of East Frisia, ruler of East Frisia in the later years of the Thirty Years' War (d. 1648)
July 25 – Theodore Haak, German scholar (d. 1690)
July 29 – Simon Dach, Prussian German lyrical poet and writer of hymns (d. 1659)
August 6
- Johann Philipp von Schönborn, Archbishop-Elector of Mainz (1647– (d. 1673)
- Bulstrode Whitelocke, English lawyer (d. 1675)
August 8 – Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, first Proprietor and Proprietary Governor of the Province of Maryland (d. 1675)
August 18 – Henry Hammond, English churchman (d. 1660)
August 25 – Philipp Moritz, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg, German noble (d. 1638)
August 30 – Felice Ficherelli, Italian painter (d. 1660)
August 31 – Nicolas Talon, French Jesuit (d. 1691)
September 1 – Michele Mazzarino, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1648)
September 8 – Cornelis Jan Witsen, Mayor of Amsterdam (d. 1669)
September 12 – William Dugdale, English antiquary and herald (d. 1686)
September 14 – Brynjólfur Sveinsson, Icelandic bishop and scholar (d. 1675)
September 17 – Francesco Sacrati, Italian composer (d. 1650)
September 24 – Antoine Godeau, French bishop and poet (d. 1672)
September 28 – Ismaël Bullialdus, French astronomer (d. 1694)

October 15 – Marie de Bourbon, Duchess of Montpensier, French princess (d. 1627)
October 16 – Charles Coypeau d'Assoucy, French writer and composer (d. 1677)
October 19 – Sir Thomas Browne, English physician and philosopher (d. 1682)
October 22 – Frédéric Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne, prince of the independent principality of Sedan (d. 1652)
November 3 – John Henderson, 5th of Fordell, Scottish noble (d. 1650)
November 4 – William Habington, English poet (d. 1654)
November 5 – Thomas Shepard, American Puritan minister and a significant figure in early colonial New England (d. 1649)
December 1 – Roger Hill, English politician (d. 1667)
December 8 – François Vavasseur, French writer (d. 1681)
December 16 – Jerome Weston, 2nd Earl of Portland, English diplomat and landowner (d. 1663)
December 23 – Tianqi Emperor, Ming emperor of China (d. 1627)
December 25 – Francis Godolphin, English politician (d. 1667)

William Berkeley, English governor of Virginia (d. 1677)
Adriaen Brouwer, Flemish painter (d. 1638)
Aleksander Dominik Kazanowski, Polish nobleman (d. 1648)
Alexandra Mavrokordatou, Greek intellectual and salonist (d. 1684)
Afanasy Ordin-Nashchokin, Russian statesman (d. 1680)
Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, French traveller and pioneer of trade with India (d. 1689)
Constantia Zierenberg, German-Polish singer (d. 1653)
Thomas Hastings, American politician (d. 1685)
Johann Rudolf Stadler, Swiss clock-maker (d. 16 October 1637)^[134]
Ayşe Sultan and/or Gevherhan Sultan, Ottoman princesses, daughters of Ahmed I

Semyon Dezhnev, Pomor navigator (d. 1672)
John Gauden, English bishop and writer (d. 1662)
William Goffe, English parliamentarian and regicide (d. 1679)
Thomas Nabbes, English dramatist (d. c. 1645)
Francis Willoughby, 5th Baron Willoughby of Parham, English noble (d. 1666)

1606

January 1 (bapt.) – Eva Ment, Dutch culture personality (d. 1652)
January 4 (bapt.) – Edmund Castell, English orientalist (d. 1685)
January 9 – William Dugard, English printer (d. 1662)
January 11 – Judit Rumy, Hungarian noble (d. 1663)
January 30 – Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 1st Baronet, of Great Lever (d. 1674)
February 10 – Christine of France, Duchess of Savoy (d. 1663)
February 12 – John Winthrop, the Younger, Governor of Connecticut (d. 1676)
February 16 – William White, English politician (d. 1661)
February 23
- George Frederick of Nassau-Siegen, officer in the Dutch Army (d. 1674)
- Richard Lloyd, English politician (d. 1676)
February 27 – Laurent de La Hyre, French Baroque painter (d. 1656)
c. February 28 – William Davenant, English poet and playwright (d. 1668)
March – Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester (d. 1680)
March 3 – Edmund Waller, English poet (d. 1687)
March 18 – John X of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp, Prince-Bishop of Lübeck (1634–1655) (d. 1655)
March 20 – Georg von Derfflinger, field marshal in the army of Brandenburg-Prussia (1618–1648) (d. 1695)
March 25 – Gertrude More, English nun (d. 1633)
March 27 – Hans Svane, Danish statesman (d. 1668)
March 28 – Jacob Masen, German poet (d. 1681)
March 30 – Vincentio Reinieri, Italian mathematician and astronomer (d. 1647)

April 1 – Ernest Christopher, Count of Rietberg (1625–1640) (d. 1640)
April 5 – Nicolas Perrot d'Ablancourt, Translator (d. 1664)
April 6 – Amable de Bourzeys, French writer and academic (d. 1672)
April 14 – Juliana of Hesse-Darmstadt, Countess of East Frisia (d. 1659)
May 3
- Marie de Bourbon, Countess of Soissons, wife of Thomas Francis (d. 1692)
- Lorenzo Lippi, Italian painter and poet (d. 1665)
May 6 – John Norton, American divine (d. 1663)
May 12 – Joachim von Sandrart, German Baroque art-historian and painter (d. 1688)
May 14 – Agnes of Hesse-Kassel, Princess consort of Anhalt-Dessau (d. 1650)
May 16 (bapt.) – John Bulwer, British doctor (d. 1656)
May 17 – Marco Faustini, Italian opera manager (d. 1676)
May 22 – Wouter van Twiller, Director-General of New Netherland from 1633 until 1638 (d. 1654)
May 23 – Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish writer (d. 1682)
May 25 – Saint Charles Garnier, Jesuit missionary (d. 1649)^[135]
June 3 – George Aribert of Anhalt-Dessau, German nobleman (d. 1643)
June 6 – Pierre Corneille, French dramatist (d. 1684)
June 16 – Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, Irish peer and soldier (d. 1675)
June 19 – James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish politician and noble (d. 1649)

July 8 – Jean Gamans, German hagiographer (d. 1684)
July 10 – Corfitz Ulfeldt, Danish statesman (d. 1664)
July 13 – Roland Fréart de Chambray, French architectural theorist (d. 1676)
July 15 – Rembrandt (van Rijn), Dutch painter (d. 1669)^[136]
July 20 – Hans Conrad Werdmüller, Swiss military commander (d. 1674)
August 13 – Esteban de Aguilar y Zúñiga, Spanish writer (d. 1681)
August 15 – Giovanna Maria Bonomo, beatified Italian Catholic nun (d. 1670)
August 18 – Maria Anna of Spain (d. 1646)
August 22 – Camille de Neufville de Villeroy, Archbishop of Lyon (d. 1693)
September 1 – Nicholas Slanning, English politician (d. 1643)
September 12 – John Spelman, English politician (d. 1663)
September 18
- Preben von Ahnen, German-born civil servant and landowner in Norway (d. 1675)
- Zhang Xianzhong, Chinese rebel (d. 1647)
September 22
- Li Zicheng, Chinese rebel (d. 1645)
- Richard Busby, English clergyman (d. 1695)
September 28 – Sir William Drake, 1st Baronet, English politician (d. 1669)

October 1 – Julian Maunoir, French Jesuit priest (d. 1683)
October 12
- Robert Barnham, English politician (d. 1685)
- Christoph Bernhard von Galen, Westphalian Catholic prince-bishop of Münster and military leader (d. 1678)
October 14 – Joan Maetsuycker, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1653 to 1678 (d. 1678)
October 16 – Ottavio Amigoni, Italian painter (d. 1661)
October 19 – Sir Gerrard Napier, 1st Baronet, English politician (d. 1673)
October 20 – Francesco Maria Mancini, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1672)
October 30 – Jean-Jacques Bouchard, French erotic writer (d. 1641)
November 9 – Hermann Conring, German philosopher (d. 1681)
November 12 – Jeanne Mance, French nurse and settler of New France (d. 1673)
December 1 – Johann von Hoverbeck, Prussian diplomat (d. 1682)
December 8 – Nicolò Sagredo, 105th Doge of Venice (d. 1676)
December 11 – Thomas Nott, English Army officer (d. 1681)

Leonard Calvert, Colonial governor of Maryland (d. 1647)
Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, Italian architect and painter (d. 1680)^[137]
Thomas Herbert, English traveller and historian (d. 1682)
John Robartes, 1st Earl of Radnor, English politician (d. 1685)
Pierre du Ryer, French dramatist (d. 1658)
Tokugawa Tadanaga, Japanese nobleman (d. 1633)
Thomas Washbourne, English clergyman and poet (d. 1687)

1607

January 10 – Isaac Jogues, French Jesuit missionary to the Native Americans (d. 1646)
January 30 – Willem Nieupoort, Dutch politician, and diplomat (d. 1678)
January 31 – James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby (d. 1651)
February 9 – Abraham Megerle, Austrian composer and organist (d. 1680)
February 22 – Edward Thurland, English politician (d. 1683)
February 25 – Ahasuerus Fromanteel, English clockmaker (d. 1693)
February 27 – Christian Keymann, German hymnwriter (d. 1662)
March – Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll, Scottish clan chief (d. 1661)
March 8 – Johann Rist, German poet and dramatist known for hymns (d. 1667)
March 9 – Gervase Holles, English Member of Parliament (d. 1675)
March 10 – Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton, English statesman (d. 1667)^[138]
March 12 – Paul Gerhardt, German theologian (d. 1676)
March 24 – Michiel de Ruyter, Dutch admiral (d. 1676)^[139]
March 31 – Philippe Le Sueur de Petiville, French poet (d. 1657)

April 5 – (bapt.) John Boys, English Royalist soldier, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (d. 1664)
April 16 – Nicolas Henri, Duke of Orléans, French duke (d. 1611)
April 26 – Countess Palatine Magdalene Catherine of Zweibrücken and Duchess of Birkenfeld (d. 1648)
May 21 – Sir Philip Musgrave, 2nd Baronet, English politician (d. 1678)
May 31 – Johann Wilhelm Baur, German artist (d. 1640)
June 17 – Lacuzon, Franche-Comté military leader (d. 1681)
June 24 – Jean-Jacques Renouard de Villayer, French postal pioneer (d. 1691)

July 1 – Thomas de Critz, British artist (d. 1653)
July 12 – Jean Petitot, French-Swiss enamel painter (d. 1691)
July 13 – Václav Hollar, Bohemian etcher (d. 1677)
August – Claude de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French courtier (d. 1693)
August 5
- Antonio Barberini, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1671)
- Philipp Friedrich Böddecker, German organist and composer (d. 1683)
August 6 – Dirck van der Lisse, Dutch painter (d. 1669)
August 15
- St. Francisco Fernandez de Capillas, Spanish saint (d. 1648)
- Herman IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg (d. 1658)
August 24 – Sebastian von Rostock, German bishop (d. 1671)
September 15 – Archduke Charles of Austria (d. 1632)
September 25 – Dorothea of Anhalt-Zerbst, Duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (d. 1634)
September 26 – Francesco Cairo, Italian painter (d. 1665)

October 4 – Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla, Spanish dramatist (d. 1648)
October 19 – Louis of Anhalt-Köthen, German prince (d. 1624)
October 24 – Jan Lievens, Dutch painter (d. 1674)
October 25 – Antonio de la Cerda, 7th Duke of Medinaceli, Grandee of Spain (d. 1671)
November 1 – Georg Philipp Harsdörffer, Baroque-period German poet and translator (d. 1658)
November 5 – Anna Maria van Schurman, Dutch painter (d. 1678)
November 6 – Sigmund Theophil Staden, important early German composer (d. 1655)
November 10 – John Gregory, English orientalist (d. 1646)
November 15
- Ernest Casimir, Count of Nassau-Weilburg, founder of the younger line of Nassau-Weilburg (d. 1655)
- Madeleine de Scudéry, French writer (d. 1701)^[140]
November 23 – Andrzej Trzebicki, nobleman and priest in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (d. 1679)
November 25 – Kanō Naonobu, Japanese painter of the Kanō school of painting during the early Edo period (d. 1650)
November 26 – John Harvard, English-born American clergyman (d. 1638)
November 28 – Francesco Sforza Pallavicino (d. 1667)
December 4 – John Frescheville, 1st Baron Frescheville, English politician (d. 1682)
December 6 – Christopher Turnor, English judge (d. 1675)
December 10 – Kjeld Stub, Danish priest (d. 1663)
December 14 – John Kemény, Prince of Transylvania (d. 1662)
December 17 – Pacecco De Rosa, Italian painter (d. 1656)
December 19 – Remigius van Leemput, painter from the Southern Netherlands (d. 1675)
December 30
- Sir James Harington, 3rd Baronet, English politician (d. 1680)
- Song Si-yeol, Korean philosopher (d. 1689)

Elizabeth Tilley, English pilgrim settler in North America who was one of the original passengers of the Mayflower (d. 1687)
Jan Kazimierz Krasiński, Polish nobleman (d. 1669)
John Dixwell, English judge and regicide (d. 1689)^[141]
Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician (d. 1665)
Yagyū Jūbei Mitsuyoshi, Japanese samurai (d. 1650)

1608

January 10 – Henry Winthrop, governor of the Massachusetts Bay Company (d. 1630)
January 14 – Francis Hawley, 1st Baron Hawley, English politician (d. 1684)
January 21 – Theaurau John Tany, English Christian mystic (d. 1659)
January 26 – Johannes Heinrich Ursinus, German Lutheran scholar (d. 1667)
January 28 – Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist (d. 1679)
January 30 – John Oxenbridge, English Nonconformist divine (d. 1674)
February 5 – Gaspar Schott, German Jesuit scholar (d. 1666)
February 6 – António Vieira, Portuguese writer (d. 1697)
February 12 – Daniello Bartoli, Italian Jesuit priest (d. 1685)
February 20 – Arthur Capell, 1st Baron Capell of Hadham (d. 1649)
February 21 – Elizabeth Barnard, Granddaughter of William Shakespeare (d. 1670)
March 18 – Paul Ragueneau, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1680)
March 27 – Thomas Rouse, English politician (d. 1676)
March 28 – Léon Bouthillier, comte de Chavigny, French politician (d. 1652)

April 13 – Cornelis Schrevel, Dutch scholar (d. 1664)
April 14 – Illiam Dhone, Manx politician (d. 1663)
April 15
- Honoré Fabri, French mathematician (d. 1688)
- John Huddleston, English monk of the Order of St. Benedict (d. 1698)
April 20 – Edward Rainbowe, English clergyman and preacher (d. 1684)
April 23 – Thomas Minor, American city founder (d. 1690)
April 24 – Gaston, Duke of Orléans, third son of King Henry IV of France (d. 1660)^[142]
May 1 – Pieter Post, Dutch architect, painter and printmaker (d. 1669)
May 15 – René Goupil, French Jesuit lay missionary (d. 1642)
June – Richard Fanshawe, English diplomat (d. 1666)
June 19 (bapt.) – Thomas Fuller, English churchman and historian (d. 1661)

July 13 – Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1657)
July 14 – George Goring, Lord Goring, English Royalist soldier (d. 1657)
July 24 – Sir Philip Wodehouse, 3rd Baronet, English baronet (d. 1681)
August 4 – John Tradescant the Younger, British botanist (d. 1662)
August 15 – Henry Howard, 22nd Earl of Arundel, English politician (d. 1652)
August 16 – Jean-Louis Raduit de Souches, German Imperial field marshal (d. 1682)
August 20 – Ludovicus a S. Carolo, French monk (d. 1670)
August 30 – Alonso Perez de Leon, Spanish conquistador, explorer, man of letters (d. 1661)
September 1 – Giacomo Torelli, Italian stage designer, engineer, and architect (d. 1678)
September 15 – Niccolò Albergati-Ludovisi, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1687)
September 17 – Cesare Facchinetti, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1683)
September 19 – Alfonso Litta, Cardinal, Archbishop of Milan (d. 1679)
September 20
- Luis de Benavides Carrillo, Marquis of Caracena, Spanish general (d. 1668)
- Jean-Jacques Olier, French Catholic priest (d. 1657)

October 3 – Nicole, Duchess of Lorraine, French noble (d. 1657)
October 15 – Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist and mathematician (d. 1647)^[143]
October 18 – John Conant, English theologian, clergyman, and academic administrator (d. 1694)
November 5 – Margareta Huitfeldt, Norwegian-Swedish noble (d. 1683)
November 9 – Tiberio Fiorilli, Italian actor (d. 1694)
November 10 – Eleanor of Anhalt-Zerbst, duchess by marriage of Schleswig-Holstein-Sønderburg-Norburg (d. 1681)
November 13 (bapt.) – John Desborough, English soldier and politician (d. 1680)
November 16 – Johann Freinsheim, German classical scholar, critic (d. 1660)
November 23 – Francisco Manuel de Mello, Portuguese writer (d. 1666)
December 6 – George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, English soldier (d. 1670)^[144]
December 8 – Vendela Skytte, Swedish noble (d. 1629)
December 9 – John Milton, English poet (d. 1674)^[145]
December 15
- Joachim Lütkemann, German theologian (d. 1655)
- John Tufton, 2nd Earl of Thanet, English earl (d. 1664)

Thomas Barlow, Bishop of Lincoln, English churchman (d. 1691)
Eudoxia Streshneva, Tsarina of Mikhail I of Russia (d. 1645)
Ayşe Sultan and/or Hanzade Sultan, Ottoman princesses, daughters of Ahmed I

1609

January 18
- Ferdinando Hastings, 6th Earl of Huntingdon, English politician (d. 1656)
- Henry Oxenden, English poet (d. 1670)
January 20 – Carlo Ceresa, Italian painter (d. 1679)
January 30 – Václav Eusebius František, Prince of Lobkowicz, Austrian field marshal and prince (d. 1677)
February 10
- Lancelot Lake, Member of the English Parliament of (d. 1680)
- John Suckling, English poet (d. 1642)^[146]
February 14 – Bartram de Fouchier, Dutch painter (d. 1673)
February 18 – Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, English statesman and historian (d. 1674)^[147]
February 21 – Raimondo Montecuccoli, Italian general (d. 1680)
March 16
- Michael Franck, German composer and poet (d. 1667)
- Agostino Mitelli, Italian painter (d. 1660)
March 18 – King Frederick III of Denmark (d. 1670)^[148]
March 22 – John II Casimir of Poland (d. 1672)
March 23 – Johann Heinrich Schönfeld, German artist (d. 1684)
March 25 – Paul Fréart de Chantelou, French collector and patron of the arts (d. 1694)

April 6 – Walter Aston, 2nd Lord Aston of Forfar, second and eldest surviving son of Walter Aston (d. 1678)
April 15 – Richard Winwood, English politician (d. 1688)
May 6 – Antonie Waterloo, Flemish painter (d. 1690)
May 10 – Mauritia Eleonora of Portugal, Princess of Portugal and through marriage countess of Nassau-Siegen (d. 1674)
June 2 – Zsófia Bosnyák, Hungarian noblewoman (d. 1644)
June 17 – John of Hesse-Braubach, German general (d. 1651)
June 29 – Pierre-Paul Riquet, French engineer and canal builder (d. 1680)

July 17 – Wilhelm Gumppenberg, German Jesuit theologian (d. 1675)
July 28 – Judith Leyster, Dutch painter (d. 1660)^[149]
July 29 – Maria Gonzaga, Duchess of Montferrat, Italian noble (d. 1660)
August 6 – Richard Bennett, British Colonial Governor of Virginia (d. 1675)
August 21 – Jean Rotrou, French poet and tragedian (d. 1650)
August 25 – Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato (d. 1685)
August 30
- Sir Alexander Carew, 2nd Baronet, English politician (d. 1644)
- Artus Quellinus the Elder, Flemish sculptor (d. 1668)
September 3 – Raymond Breton, French missionary (d. 1679)
September 19 (or 1605) – Thomas Gouge, English minister (d. 1681)

October 5 – Paul Fleming, German physician and poet (d. 1640)
October 8 – John Clarke, English physician (d. 1676)
October 9 – Thomas Weston, 4th Earl of Portland, younger son of the Richard Weston (d. 1688)
October 14 – Ernest Günther, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein of its Sonderborg line (d. 1689)
October 16 – Thomas Minors, English politician and merchant (d. 1677)
October 18 – Josias von Rantzau, Marshal of France (d. 1650)
October 19 – Gerrard Winstanley, English Protestant religious reformer (d. 1676)
October 26 – William Sprague, English co-founder of Charlestown, Massachusetts (d. 1675)
October 29 – Wadham Wyndham, English judge (d. 1668)
November 1 – Matthew Hale, Lord Chief Justice of England (d. 1676)
November 23 – Sophia Eleonore of Saxony, German duchess (d. 1671)
November 25 – Henrietta Maria of France, queen of England, Scotland and Ireland (d. 1669)^[150]
November 26 – Henry Dunster, first President of Harvard College (d. 1659)
December 6 – Nicholas Francis, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1670)
December 11 – Alexander Cooper, English Baroque miniature painter (d. 1660)
December 13 – Isbrand van Diemerbroeck, Dutch physician (d. 1674)
December 24 – Philip Warwick, English writer and politician (d. 1683)
December 30 – Anna Maria von Eggenberg, née Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Austrian noble (d. 1680)

Luc d'Achery, French Benedictine (d. 1685)
Samuel Cooper, English miniature painter (d. 1672)
Alberich Mazak, Austrian composer (d. 1661)
Elizabeth Isham, English diarist (d. 1654)
Hannibal Sehested, Danish statesman (d. 1666)
Thomas Greene, Colonial governor of Maryland (d. 1651)

Gauthier de Costes, seigneur de la Calprenède, French novelist and dramatist (d. 1663)

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1600

January 9 – John Spencer, English landowner and politician (b. 1549)
January 21 – Jerzy Radziwiłł, Polish–Lithuanian nobleman (szlachcic) from the Radziwiłł family (b. 1556)
February 9 – John Frederick, Duke of Pomerania, Protestant Bishop of Cammin (1567–1574) and ruling Duke of Pomerania (1569–1600) (b. 1542)
February 15 – José de Acosta, Spanish Jesuit missionary and naturalist (b. 1540)
February 17 – Giordano Bruno, Italian philosopher (burned at the stake) (b. 1548)^[151]
February 25 – Sebastian de Aparicio, Spanish colonial industrialist, Roman Catholic priest and blessed in Mexico (b. 1502)
February 29 – Caspar Hennenberger, German historian and cartographe (b. 1529)
March 6 – Johann Major, German poet and theologian (b. 1533)
March 20 – Gustaf Banér, Swedish noble (b. 1547)
April 1 – Esperanza Malchi, Ottoman businessperson
April – Thomas Deloney, English writer (b. 1543)

May 17 – Thomas Leighton, English politician (b. 1554)
May 18
- Nicolaus Olai Bothniensis, Swedish archbishop (b. 1550)
- Fulvio Orsini, Italian humanist, historian and archaeologist (b. 1529)
May 19 – Abe Masakatsu, Japanese nobleman (b. 1541)
June 3 – Juan Grande Román, Spanish Catholic saint (b. 1546)
June 8 – Edward Fortunatus, German nobleman (b. 1565)
June 25 – David Chytraeus, German historian and theologian (b. 1530)^[152]
June 19 – Christopher Layer, English politician (b. 1531)

July 5 – Jean Kincaid, Scottish murderer (b. 1579)
July 7 – Thomas Lucy, English politician (b. 1532)
July 20 – William More, English courtier (b. 1520)
July 27 – John Glanville, English politician (b. 1542)
August 5
- Alexander Ruthven, Scottish earl (b. 1580)^[153]
- John Ruthven, 3rd Earl of Gowrie, Scottish conspirator (b. 1577)
- Queen Uiin, Korean royal consort (b. 1555)
August 18 – Sebastiano Montelupi, Italian businessman (b. 1516)
August 22 – Nicasius de Sille, Dutch diplomat (b. 1543)
August 25 – Hosokawa Gracia, Japanese noblewoman (b. 1563)
August 27 – Mizuno Tadashige, Japanese nobleman (b. 1541)
September 1 – Tadeáš Hájek, Czech physician and astronomer (b. 1525)
September 25 – Antoine du Verdier, French politician (b. 1544)^[154]
September 26 – Claude Le Jeune, French composer (b. 1530)^[155]

October 12 – Luis de Molina, Spanish Jesuit priest and philosopher (b. 1535)^[156]
October 16 – Nicolaus Reimers, German astronomer (b. 1551)
October 17 – Cornelis de Jode, Flemish cartographer, engraver and publisher (b. 1568)
October 21
- Toda Katsushige, Japanese warlord (b. 1557)
- Shima Sakon, Japanese samurai (b. 1540)
- Shimazu Toyohisa, Japanese samurai (b. 1570)
- Ōtani Yoshitsugu, Japanese samurai (b. 1558)
November 3 – Richard Hooker, English Anglican theologian (b. 1554)
November 6
- Ishida Mitsunari, Japanese feudal lord (decapitated) (b. 1560)
- Konishi Yukinaga, Japanese Christian warlord (b. 1555)
November 8 – Natsuka Masaie, Japanese warlord (b. 1562)
November 12 – Margrave Andrew of Burgau, German nobleman, Cardinal, Bishop of Constance and Brixen (b. 1558)
November 15 – Sigmund Fugger von Kirchberg und Weißenhorn, bishop of Regensburg (b. 1542)
November 17 – Kuki Yoshitaka, Japanese naval commander (b. 1542)
November 25 – Juan Téllez-Girón, 2nd Duke of Osuna, Spanish duke (b. 1559)
November 30 – Nanda Bayin, King of Burma (b. 1535)
December 3 – Roger North, 2nd Baron North, English politician (b. 1530)
December 16 – Charles I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld (1569–1600) (b. 1560)

Gilles de Noailles – French Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1575 to 1579 (b. 1524)

1601

January 11 – Scipione Ammirato, Italian historian (b. 1531)
January 17 – Christoffer Valkendorff, Danish politician (b. 1525)
January 19 – Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, English statesman (b. 1538)
January 29 – Louise of Lorraine, French queen consort (b. 1553)
February 7 – Martin Garzez, Aragonese-born 53rd Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller (b. 1526)
February 25 – Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, English politician (b. 1566)^[157]
February 27 – Anne Line, English Catholic martyr (b. c. 1563)
March 2 – Antonio del Rincón, Mexican academic (b. 1566)
March 13 – Henry Cuffe, English politician (b. 1563)

April 5 – Wolfgang von Dalberg, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Mainz, Germany (b. 1538)
April 10 – Mark Alexander Boyd, Scottish poet and soldier of fortune (b. 1562)
May 10 – Hans van Steenwinckel the Elder, Flemish/Danish architect, sculptor (b. 1550)
May 12 – Anna III, Abbess of Quedlinburg, Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg (b. 1565)
May 19 – Costanzo Porta, Italian composer (b. 1528)
May 21 – Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg, Archbishop-Elector of Cologne (b. 1547)
June 11 – Françoise d'Orléans-Longueville, French princess (b. 1549)
June 16 – Lewis Mordaunt, 3rd Baron Mordaunt, Member of Parliament and High Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire (b. 1538)
June 17 – Gabriel Goodman, English priest (b. 1528)^[158]
June 24 – Henriette of Cleves, Duchess of Nevers, Countess of Rethel (b. 1542)
June 25 – Peregrine Bertie, 13th Baron Willoughby de Eresby, English baron (b. 1555)
June 27 – Henry Norris, 1st Baron Norreys (b. 1525)

August 9 – Prince Michael the Brave of Wallachia (b. 1558)
August 11 – Johannes Heurnius, Dutch physician (b. 1543)
August 19 – William Lambarde, English antiquarian and politician (b. 1536)
September 7 – John Shakespeare, English glover, father of William Shakespeare (b. 1529)
September 12 – Meletius I Pegas, Greek Patriarch of Alexandria (b. 1549)
September 20 – Fernando Ruiz de Castro Andrade y Portugal, Grandee of Spain (b. 1548)

October 12 – Nicholas Brend, English landowner (b. 1560)
October 21 – Hoshina Masanao, Japanese daimyō of the Takeda clan (b. 1542)
October 24
- Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer (b. 1546)^[159]
- Louis Philip, Count Palatine of Guttenberg, Palatinate-Veldenz (b. 1577)
November 16 – Charles Neville, 6th Earl of Westmorland, exiled English nobleman (b. 1542)
December 3 – Peter Thyraeus, German theologian (b. 1546)
December 17 – Bernardino de Cárdenas y Portugal, Duque de Maqueda, Spanish noble (b. 1553)

Girolamo Dalla Casa, Italian composer
Ogawa Suketada, Japanese daimyō (b. 1549)
Onodera Shigemichi, Japanese samurai

1602

January – Claude Fauchet, French historian
February 3 – Paulus Melissus, German composer (b. 1539)
February 13 – Alexander Nowell, English clergyman (b. 1507)
February 19 – Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercœur, French soldier (b. 1558)
March 11 – Emilio de' Cavalieri, Italian composer (b. c. 1550)
March 12 – Philip IV, Count of Nassau-Weilburg and Nassau-Saarbrücken (1574–1602) (b. 1542)
March 22 – Agostino Carracci, Italian painter and graphical artist (b. 1557)
March 24 – Ii Naomasa, Japanese general (b. 1561)
March 25 – Joachim Frederick of Brieg, Duke of Wołów (b. 1550)

April 8 – Ludvig Munk, Governor-general of Norway (b. 1537)
April 10 – Amalia of Neuenahr, German noble (b. 1539)
April 20 – Thomas Tichborne, English martyr (b. 1567)
April 26 – Antonio Maria Salviati, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1537)
May 9 – Giulio Antonio Santorio, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1532)
May 22 – Renata of Lorraine (b. 1544)
May 27 – Robert Stuart, Duke of Kintyre and Lorne, infant son of King James I/VI

July 4 – Anna of Mecklenburg, Duchess consort of Courland (1566–1587) (b. 1533)
July 7 – Friedrich Wilhelm I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, German noble (b. 1562)
July 31 – Charles de Gontaut, 1st Duke of Biron, French noble and military commander (b. 1562)
August 12 – Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak, Mughal vizier and historian (b. 1551)
August 23 – Bastianino, Italian painter (b. c. 1536)
September 14 – Jean Passerat, French writer (b. 1534)
September 25
- Caspar Peucer, German reformer (b. 1525)
- William Redman, Bishop of Norwich (b. 1541)
September 30 – Catherine of Brandenburg-Küstrin, daughter of Margrave John of Küstrin (b. 1549)

October – Thomas Morley, English composer (b. 1557)^[160]
October 1 – Hernando de Cabezón, Spanish composer and organist (b. 1541)
October 7 – Thomas Schweicker, German artist (b. 1540)
October 13 – Franciscus Junius, French theologian (b. 1545)
October 20 – Walter Leveson, English Elizabethan Member of Parliament, Shropshire landowner (b. 1550)
October 21
- Hedwig of Brandenburg, Duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Duchess consort of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (b. 1540)
- King David I of Kakheti (b. 1569)
October 28 – John, Prince of Schleswig-Holstein, youngest son of Frederick II of Denmark and Norway (b. 1583)
October 30 – Jean-Jacques Boissard, French antiquary and Latin poet (b. 1528)^[161]
October 31 – Dominic Collins, Irish Jesuit lay brother and martyr (b. 1566)
November 23 – Agnes of Solms-Laubach, Landgravine of Hesse-Kassel (b. 1578)
November 29 – Anthony Holborne, English composer (b. c. 1545)
December 1 – Kobayakawa Hideaki, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1577)
December 29 – Jacopo Corsi, Italian composer (b. 1561)

Epifani Olives i Terès, Spanish politician
Oda Ujiharu, Japanese warlord (b. 1534)
Valpuri Innamaa, Finnish shipowner
Daniel Tossanus, French Reformed theologian (b. 1541)

1603

January 21 – Kim Myŏngwŏn, Korean politician (b. 1534)
January 25 – Francesco Zirano, Italian priest, member of the Order of Friars Minor (b. 1564)
February 7
- Bartholomäus Sastrow, German politician (b. 1520)
- Hermann Wilken, German humanist and mathematician (b. 1522)
February 23
- Andrea Cesalpino, Italian philosopher, physician and botanist (b. 1519)
- Franciscus Vieta, French mathematician (b. 1540)
February 26 – Maria of Austria, Holy Roman Empress, spouse of Maximilian II (b. 1528)
March 14 – Ulrich, Duke of Mecklenburg-Güstrow (1555–1603) (b. 1527)
March 22 – Robert Seton, 1st Earl of Winton, Scottish peer who supported Mary, Queen of Scots (b. 1553)
March 24 – Queen Elizabeth I of England (b. 1533)^[162]
March 25 – Ikoma Chikamasa, Japanese warlord (b. 1526)

April 4 – Aegidius Hunnius, German theologian (b. 1550)
April 25 – George Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (b. 1539)
May 4
- Juraj IV Zrinski, Count of Croatia (b. 1549)
- Stephan Praetorius, German theologian (b. 1536)
May 14 – Magnus II, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg, German duke (b. 1543)
June – Baldassare Donato, Italian composer and singer (b. 1525)
June 2
- Tanneke Sconyncx, Alleged Flemish witch (b. 1560)
- Bernard of Wąbrzeźno, Roman Catholic priest and a Benedictine monk from the Benedictine Abbey in Lubiń (b. 1575)
June 27 – Jan Dymitr Solikowski, Polish archbishop, writer, and diplomat (b. 1539)

July 4 – Philippe de Monte, Flemish composer (b. 1521)
July 10 – Joan Terès i Borrull, viceroy of Catalonia (b. 1538)
July 11 – Richard Drake, English courtier (b. 1535)
July 17
- János Jacobinus, Hungarian politician (b. 1574)
- Mózes Székely, Hungarian noble (b. 1553)
July 23 – Santi di Tito, Italian painter (b. 1536)
August 1 – Matthew Browne, English politician (b. 1563)
August 2 – John Townshend, English politician (b. 1568)
August 16 – Silvio Antoniano, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1540)
August 25
- Ahmad al-Mansur, Sultan of the Saadi Dynasty (b. 1549)
- Jan Zborowski, Polish noble (b. 1538)
August 26 – Thomas Drury, English government informer and swindler (b. 1551)
September 1 – Barnim X, Duke of Pomerania-Stettin (1569–1603) (b. 1549)
September 9 – George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon, English politician (b. 1547)
September 19 – Matsudaira Iemoto, Japanese samurai (b. 1548)

October – Ralph Lane, English explorer (b. 1530)
October 6 – Jakob Monau, Polish writer and linguist (b. 1546)
October 18 – Edward Stafford, 3rd Baron Stafford, English baron (b. 1535)
October 23 – Johann Wanning, Dutch composer, kapellmeister, and singer (b. 1537)
October 26 – Otto II, Duke of Brunswick-Harburg (1549–1603) (b. 1528)
October 27 – Irina Godunova, Russian tsarina (b. 1557)
November 12 – John VII, Count of Oldenburg (1573–1603) and Delmenhorst (1573–1597) (b. 1540)
November 16 – Pierre Charron, French 16th-century Catholic theologian and philosopher (b. 1541)
November 18 – Elisabeth of Nassau-Dillenburg, Dutch countess, sister of William the Silent (b. 1542)
November 20 – Krzysztof Mikołaj "the Thunderbolt" Radziwiłł, Polish nobleman (b. 1547)
November 30 – William Gilbert, English scientist (plague) (b. 1544)
December 4 – Maerten de Vos, Flemish painter and draughtsman (b. 1532)
December 5 – George Brooke, English aristocrat (b. 1568)
December 8 – Girolamo Mattei, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1547)
December 9 – William Watson, English conspirator (b. 1559)
December 22 – Mehmed III, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1566)
December 27 – Thomas Cartwright, English Puritan churchman (b. 1535)
December 28 – John Joscelyn, English clergyman and antiquarian as well as secretary to Matthew Parker (b. 1529)

Edward Fenton, English navigator
Oleksander Ostrogski, Polish nobleman (b. 1571)

Gráinne O'Malley, Irish chieftain and pirate (b. 1530)
King Idris Alooma of the Kanem-Bornu Empire
Will Kempe, English comic performer^[163]

1604

January 4 – Ferenc Nádasdy, Hungarian noble (b. 1555)
January 10 – Juliana of Lazarevo, Russian saint (b. 1530)
January 17 – Santino Garsi da Parma, Italian musician (b. 1542)
January 18 – Dorothy Catherine of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Burggräfin of Meissen (b. 1538)
January 23 – Hyujeong, Korean Seon master (b. 1520)
February 9 – Anne Russell, Countess of Warwick, wife of Ambrose Dudley, 3rd Earl of Warwick (b. 1548)
February 10 – Cyriacus Spangenberg, German theologian and historian (b. 1528)
February 13 – Catherine de Bourbon, French princess (b. 1559)
February 24 – Christoph Pezel, German theologian (b. 1539)
February 29 – John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1583 to his death (b. c. 1530)
March 4 – Fausto Paolo Sozzini, Italian theologian (b. 1539)
March 13 – Arnaud d'Ossat, French diplomat and writer (b. 1537)

April 8 – Daniyal, Imperial Prince of the Timurid Dynasty, Viceroy of Deccan (b. 1572)
April 14 – Ernest Frederick, Margrave of Baden-Durlach (1584–1604) (b. 1560)
April 19 – Kuroda Yoshitaka, Japanese daimyō (b. 1546)
April 21 – Koide Hidemasa, Samurai (b. 1539)
April 25 – Pietro de' Medici, Italian noble (b. 1554)
May 4 – Claudio Merulo, Italian composer (b. 1533)^[164]
May 13 – Christine of Hesse (b. 1543)
May 22 – Peter Ernst I von Mansfeld-Vorderort, Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands (b. 1517)
May 26 – Godfrey Goldsborough, English bishop (b. 1548)
June 5 – Thomas Muffet, English naturalist and physician (b. 1553)
June 10 – Isabella Andreini, Italian actress (b. 1562)
June 21 – Jonathan Trelawny, English politician (b. 1568)
June 24 – Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, Lord Great Chamberlain of England, poet and possibly playwright (b. 1550)

July 14 – Gaspar de Bono, Beatified Spanish Army veteran and Minim friar (b. 1530)
August 3 – Bernardino de Mendoza, Spanish military commander
August 8 – Horio Tadauji, Japanese warlord (b. 1578)
August 12 – John I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (b. 1550)
August 20 – Toda Kazuaki, Japanese samurai (b. 1542)
August 29
- Hamida Banu Begum, wife of the Mughal emperor Humayun (b. 1527)
- Otto Henry, Count Palatine of Sulzbach, Counts Palatine of Sulzbach (b. 1556)
August 30 – John Juvenal Ancina, Italian Oratorian and bishop (b. 1545)
September 10 – William Morgan, Welsh Bible translator (b. 1545)^[165]
September 12 – Louis Gunther of Nassau, Count of Nassau-Katzenelnbogen (b. 1575)
September 17 – Lucas Osiander the Elder, German pastor (b. 1534)
September 22 – Dorothy Stafford, English noble (b. 1526)
September 23 – Gabriel Vásquez, Spanish theologian (b. 1549)

October 8 – Janus Dousa, Dutch historian and noble (b. 1545)
October 9
- Louis IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Marburg, German noble (b. 1537)
- William Peryam, British judge (b. 1534)
October 18 – Igram van Achelen, Dutch statesman (b. 1528)
October 22 – Domingo Báñez, Spanish theologian (b. 1528)
October 24 – Za Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia
October 25 – Claude de La Trémoille, French noble (b. 1566)
November – Thomas Storer, English poet (b. 1571)
November 21 – John Thynne, English landowner and politician (b. 1555)
November 23
- Olbracht Łaski, Polish alchemist (b. 1527)
- Francesco Barozzi, Italian mathematician (b. 1537)
November 29 – Ercole, Lord of Monaco, Monegasque noble (b. 1562)
December 30 – George Hastings, 4th Earl of Huntingdon, English nobleman (b. 1540)

Thomas Churchyard, English author, secretary to Edward de Vere (b. 1520)
Thomas North, English translator of Plutarch (b. 1535)
Richard Topcliffe, English politician and torturer (b. 1531)
Ma Shouzhen, Chinese Gējì, painter, poet, and playwright (b. 1548)

1605

January 16 – Eitel Friedrich IV, Count of Hohenzollern (b. 1545)
February 5 – Edward Stafford, English diplomat (b. 1552)
February 15 – Maria of Hanau-Münzenberg, German noblewoman (b. 1562)
February 19 – Orazio Vecchi, Italian composer (b. 1550)
February 24 – Girolamo Simoncelli, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1522)
February 26 – George III, Count of Erbach-Breuberg (1564–1605) (b. 1548)
March 5 – Pope Clement VIII (b. 1536)^[166]
March 12 – King Alexander II of Kakheti (b. 1527)
March 17 – Pieter Bast, Dutch cartographer, engraver and draftsman (b. 1550)

April 5 – Adam Loftus, English Catholic archbishop (b. c. 1533)
April 6 – John Stow, English historian and antiquarian (b. 1525)
April 10 – Albrecht VII, Count of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (b. 1537)
April 13 – Boris Godunov, Tsar of Russia (b. 1551)^[167]
April 14 – Francis Cherry, English diplomat (b. 1552)
April 25 – Naresuan, Siamese King of Ayutthaya kingdom (b. c. 1555)
April 27 – Pope Leo XI (b. 1535)^[168]
May 4 – Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian naturalist (b. 1522)
May 10 – Casimir VI, Duke of Pomerania, Lutheran Administrator of Cammin Prince-Bishopric (b. 1557)
June 3 – Jan Zamoyski, Polish nobleman (b. 1542)^[169]
June 9 – John Louis II, Count of Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein (1596–1605) (b. 1596)
June 20 – Tsar Feodor II of Russia (b. 1589)^[66]

July 2 – Louis I, Count of Sayn-Wittgenstein (1588–1605) (b. 1532)
July 18 – Johann II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, German duke (b. 1570)
July 26 – Rev. Fr. Miguel de Benavides, O.P., Spanish clergyman and sinologist (b. 1552)
August 2 – Richard Leveson, English admiral (b. c. 1570)
August 4 – Charles I, Duke of Elbeuf, French duke and nobleman (b. 1556)
September 9 – Heinrich Khunrath, German physician (b. 1560)
September 11 – Sir Thomas Tresham, English politician (b. 1550)
September 14 – Jan Tarnowski, Archbishop of Kraków (b. 1550)
September 19 – Edward Lewknor, English politician (b. 1542)
September 23 – Pontus de Tyard, French poet (b. c. 1521)
September 24 – Manuel Mendes, Portuguese composer (b. 1547)

October 13 – Theodore Beza, French theologian (b. 1519)
October 18 – Beate Clausdatter Bille, Danish noblewoman (b. 1526)
October 22 – King Constantine I of Kakheti (b. 1567)
October 27 – Akbar The Great, Mughal emperor (b. 1542)
October 30 – George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland, English noble (b. 1558)
October 31 – Dorothy Bray, Baroness Chandos, English noble (b. 1524)
November 5 – Nyaungyan Min, Burmese king (b. 1555)
November 8 – Robert Catesby, English conspirator (b. 1573)
November 9 – Handan Sultan, Valide Sultan, mother of Ahmed I of Ottoman Empire (b.1568)
November 12 – Jan Tomasz Drohojowski, Polish noble (b. 1535)
November 14 – Anna Maria of Anhalt, German noblewoman (b. 1561)
December – Francis Tresham, English conspirator (b. 1567)
December 3 – Guy XX de Laval, French noble (b. 1585)
December 6 – Murai Nagayori, Japanese samurai (b. 1543)
December 25 – Marino Grimani, Doge of Venice (b. 1532)
December 29 – John Davis, English explorer (b. 1550)

Marek Sobieski, Polish nobleman (b. 1549)

1606

January 4 – George Villiers, English knight (b. 1544)
January 6 – Antonio Fernández de Córdoba y Cardona, Spanish diplomat (b. 1550)
January 11 – Arnold III, Count of Bentheim-Steinfurt-Tecklenburg-Limburg, Lord of Rheda (b. 1554)
January 20 – Sibylle Elisabeth of Württemberg, Duchess consort of Saxony (b. 1584)
January 29 – Edward Tyrrell, English politician (b. 1551)
January 30
- Thomas Bates, English Catholic involved in 1605 Gunpowder Plot (executed) (b. 1567)
- Everard Digby, English conspirator (executed) (b. 1578)
- John Grant, Gunpowder plotter (b. 1570)
- Robert Wintour, English conspirator (executed) (b. 1568)
January 31
- Guy Fawkes, English conspirator (executed) (b. 1570)^[170]
- Robert Keyes, English criminal (b. 1565)
- Ambrose Rokewood, English conspirator (executed)^[170]
- Thomas Wintour, English conspirator (executed) (b. 1571)^[170]
February 21 – Richard Field, English Jesuit (b. 1554)
March 2 – Martin Moller, German poet and mystic (b. 1547)
March 6 – Philip of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein, Dutch army commander (b. 1550)
March 7 – Bogislaw XIII, Duke of Pomerania-Stettin from 1603 to 1606 (b. 1544)
March 10 – Emperor Yaqob of Ethiopia (killed in battle)
March 15 – Balthasar von Dernbach, Prince-Abbot of Fulda (b. 1548)
March 16 – Gaspar de Zúñiga y Acevedo, Count of Monterrey, Spanish colonial administrator and Viceroy of Mexico (b. 1540)
March 23
- Justus Lipsius, Flemish humanist (b. 1547)
- Turibius of Mogrovejo, Spanish missionary Archbishop of Lima (b. 1538)
- Saint Turibius de Mongrovejo, Spanish Grand Inquisitioner and missionary Archbishop of Lima (b. 1538)
March 25 – François de Bar, French scholar (b. 1538)
April 3 – Charles Blount, 1st Earl of Devon, English politician (b. 1563)
April 7 – Edward Oldcorne, English martyr (b. 1561)
April 16 – John Addey, English shipwright (b. 1550)
May 3 – Henry Garnet, English Jesuit (executed) (b. 1555)
May 17
- False Dmitriy I, pretender to the Russian throne (b. 1582)
- Niccolò Orlandini, Italian Jesuit writer (b. 1554)
May 22 – José de Sigüenza, Spanish theologian (b. 1544)
May 30 – Guru Arjan Dev, fifth of the Sikh gurus (executed) (b. 1563)
July 7 – Christopher, Duke of Brunswick-Harburg, co-ruler of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Harburg (1603–1606) (b. 1570)
July 28 – Antonio de Raya Navarrete, Spanish Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Cuzco (1594–1606) (b. 1536)
September 2 – Karel van Mander, Dutch painter and poet (b. 1548)
September 3 – Juan de Borja y Castro, Spanish noble (b. 1533)
September 9 – Leonhard Lechner, German composer and music editor (b. 1553)
September 28 – Nicolaus Taurellus, German philosopher and theologian (b. 1547)
October 5 – Philippe Desportes, French poet (b. 1546)
October 8 – Johann VI, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg (b. 1536)
November 8 – Girolamo Mercuriale, Italian philologist and physician (b. 1530)
November 16 – Alderano Cybo-Malaspina, Italian nobleman (b. 1552)
November 20 – (burial date) John Lyly, English writer (b. 1553)
December 29 – Stephen Bocskay, Prince of Transylvania (b. 1557)
Date unknown – Akaza Naoyasu, Japanese nobleman

1607

January 6 – Guidobaldo del Monte, Italian mathematician, astronomer and philosopher (b. 1545)
January 12 – Mihály Káthay, Hungarian politician (b. c. 1565)
January 19 – Anne Morgan, Baroness Hunsdon, English Baroness (b. 1529)
January 25 – Anders Foss, Norwegian bishop (b. 1543)
January 27 – Richard Lowther, English soldier and official (b. 1532)
March 11 – Giovanni Maria Nanino, Italian composer (b. c. 1543)
March 29 – Tsugaru Tamenobu, Japanese daimyō (b. 1550)
March 31 – Henry Beaumont, English landowner and MP (b. 1545)

April 6 – Jan Saenredam, Dutch engraver (b. 1565)
April 9 – Eleanor of Prussia, daughter of Duke Albert Frederick of Prussia; by marriage Electress of Brandenburg (b. 1583)
April 15
- César de Bus, French Catholic priest (b. 1544)
- Cornelis Kiliaan, 16th-century writer from the Southern Netherlands (b. 1528)
April 27 – Edward Cromwell, 3rd Baron Cromwell, Governor of Lecale (b. 1560)
May – Edward Dyer, English courtier and poet (b. 1543)
May 3 – Agnes Douglas, Countess of Argyll, Scottish noblewoman (b. 1574)
May 17 – Anna d'Este, French princess (b. 1531)
May 21 – John Rainolds, English scholar and Bible translator (b. 1549)
May 25 – Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi, Italian Carmelite nun and mystic (b. 1566)
June 2 – Yūki Hideyasu, daimyō (b. 1574)
June 3 – Martim Afonso de Castro, Portuguese Viceroy of India (b. 1560)
June 7 – Johannes Matelart, composer (b. c. 1538)
June 10 – John Popham, Lord Chief Justice of England (b. 1531)
June 19
- Johannes Bertelius, Luxembourgish historian (b. 1544)
- Patriarch Job of Moscow
June 28 – Domenico Fontana, Italian architect (b. 1543)
June 30 – Caesar Baronius, Italian cardinal and historian (b. 1538)

July 6 – Achille Gagliardi, Italian philosopher and theologian (b. 1537)
July 7 – Penelope Blount, Countess of Devonshire, English noblewoman (b. 1563)
July 12 – Thomas Legge, British writer (b. 1535)
July 24 – Alessandro Pieroni, Italian painter (b. 1550)
July 29 – Alexander Chocke of Avington, English politician (b. 1566)
August 1 – Otto Casmann, German philosopher (b. 1562)
August 22 – Bartholomew Gosnold, English explorer and privateer (b. 1571)
August 29 – Ercole Sassonia, Italian physician (b. 1551)
September 5 – Pomponne de Bellièvre, French politician (b. 1529)
September 10 – Luzzasco Luzzaschi, Italian composer (b. 1545)
September 16 – Mary Stuart, English-Scottish princess (b. 1605)
September 22 – Alessandro Allori, Italian portrait painter of the late Mannerist Florentine school (b. 1535)

October 16 – Hōzōin In'ei, Japanese Buddhist teacher (b. 1521)
October 31 – Wawrzyniec Grzymała Goślicki, Polish philosopher (b. 1530)
November 7 – Ana de Velasco y Girón, mother of King John IV of Portugal (b. 1585)
November 8 – Elisabeth of Anhalt-Zerbst, Electress of Brandenburg (b. 1563)
November 24 – Juan de la Cerda, 6th Duke of Medinaceli, Spanish noble (b. 1569)
December 20 – Sir John Bourke of Brittas, Irish recusant, hanged (b. 1550)
December 31 – Edmund Shakespeare, English actor, brother of William Shakespeare (b. 1580)

Chen Lin, general of Ming dynasty China and Korea
Henry Chettle, English writer (b. 1564)

1608

January 4 – Peter Edgcumbe, English politician (b. 1536)
January 18 – Jacques Couet, French pastor (b. 1546)
January 19 – Bernard Maciejowski, Polish Catholic archbishop (b. 1548)
January 28 – Enrique Henríquez, Portuguese theologian (b. 1536)
January 29 – Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg, son of George of Mömpelgard and his wife Barbara of Hesse (b. 1557)
February 13 – Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski, Lithuanian prince (b. 1526)
February 13 – Bess of Hardwick, Countess of Shrewsbury (b. 1527)
February 26 – John Still, English Bishop of Bath and Wells, famed as a preacher (b. c. 1543)
February 27 – Henri, Duke of Montpensier, French noble (b. 1573)
March 12 – Kōriki Kiyonaga, Japanese warlord (b. 1530)
March 16 – Seonjo of Joseon, King of Joseon (b. 1552)
March 29
- Laurence Tomson, English Calvinist theologian (b. 1539)
- Tsugaru Tamenobu, Japanese daimyō (b. 1550)

April 8 – Magdalen Dacre, English noble (b. 1538)
April 9 – Pomponio Torelli, Italian writer (b. 1539)
April 18 – Jakob Christoph Blarer von Wartensee, Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1542)
April 19 – Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, English statesman and poet (b. 1536)
April 29 – Maria Anna of Bavaria (b. 1551)
May 11 – Giovanni Luca Conforti, Italian composer and singer (b. 1560)
May 14 – Charles III, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1542)
May 15 – Archibald Napier, Scottish landowner (b. 1534)
May 22 – Juan Bautista Villalpando, Spanish architect and mathematician (b. 1552)
June 1 – Marie Eleonore of Cleves, Duchess consort of Prussia (1573–1608) (b. 1550)
June 4 – Francis Caracciolo, Italian Catholic priest (b. 1563)
June 5 – Ippolito Andreasi, Italian painter (b. 1548)
June 19
- Alberico Gentili, Italian jurist (b. 1551)
- Johann Pistorius, German historian (b. 1546)^[171]

July 3 – William Barclay, Scottish academic lawyer (b. 1546)
July 18 – Joachim Friedrich, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1546)
July 25 – Pomponio Nenna, Italian composer (b. 1556)
July 30 – Rory O'Donnell, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell (b. 1575)
August 13 – Giambologna, Italian sculptor (b. 1529)
September 4 – Juan de Zúñiga y Avellaneda, Spanish nobleman (b. 1551)
September 8 – Jerónimo Xavierre, Spanish cardinal (b. 1546)
September 14 – Christoph Schissler, German scientific instrument maker (b. 1531)
September 20 – Kanamori Nagachika, Japanese samurai (b. 1524)
September 28 – Henri, Duke of Joyeuse, French general (b. 1563)

October 11 – Giovanni Ambrogio Figino, Italian painter (b. c. 1549)
October 17 – Luca Bati, Italian composer (b. 1546)
October 19
- Martin Delrio, Flemish theologian and occultist (b. 1551)
- Geoffrey Fenton, English writer and politician (b. 1539)
- Maria Pypelinckx, Dutch writer (b. 1538)
October 26 – Philipp Nicolai, German Lutheran pastor (b. 1556)
October 29 – John Smith, English politician (b. 1557)
November 24 – Giovanni Battista Giorgi, Italian Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Ston (1606–1608) (b. 1536)
December 21 – William Davison, secretary to Queen Elizabeth I of England (b. c. 1541)
December 29 – Martin Schalling the Younger, German theologian (b. 1532)

George Bannatyne, collector of Scottish poems (b. 1545)

1609

January – Thomas East, English printer (born c. 1540)
January 9 – Joannes Bochius, civic officeholder and neo-Latin poet in the city of Antwerp (b. 1555)
January 21 – Joseph Justus Scaliger, French Protestant scholar (b. 1540)
February 17 – Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1549)
February 28 – Paul Sartorius, German composer (b. 1569)
March – James Hamilton, 3rd Earl of Arran (b. c. 1537)
March 9 – William Warner, English poet (b. c. 1558)
March 17 – Olaus Martini, Swedish Archbishop of Uppsala (b. 1557)
March 22 – Al-Jilani, Persian physician
March 25
- Isabelle de Limeuil, French noble (b. 1535)
- John William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg (b. 1562)

April 4 – Charles de L'Ecluse, Flemish botanist (b. 1526)
April 6 – Merkelis Giedraitis, Lithuanian bishop (b. 1536)
April 8 – Mark Kerr, 1st Earl of Lothian, Scottish statesman (b. 1553)
April 9 – William Overton, English bishop (b. 1525)
April 11 – John Lumley, 1st Baron Lumley, English Baron (b. 1533)
April 14 – Gasparo da Salò (Gasparo Bertolotti), Italian violin maker(b. 1540)
May 15 – Giovanni Croce, Italian composer (b. 1557)
May 19
- Jacob Lorhard, German philosopher (b. 1561)
- García Hurtado de Mendoza, 5th Marquis of Cañete (b. 1535)
June 15 – Yamada Arinobu, Japanese nobleman (b. 1544)

July 15 – Annibale Carracci, Italian Baroque painter (b. 1560)
July 20 – Federico Zuccari, Italian painter (b. 1543)
August 4 – Cecily Bulstrode, English courtier (b. 1584)
August 7 – Eustache Du Caurroy, French composer (b. 1549)^[172]
August 6 – André du Laurens, French physician (b. 1558)
August 28 – Francis Vere, English soldier (b. c. 1560)
September 2 – Thomas Scrope, 10th Baron Scrope of Bolton, English general (b. 1567)
September 3 – Jean Richardot, Belgian diplomat (b. 1540)
September 17 – Maharal of Prague, Jewish mystic and philosopher (b. 1525)
September 29 – Ebba Lilliehöök, Swedish countess (b. 1529)

October 1 – Giammateo Asola, Italian composer (b. c. 1532)
October 9 – John Leonardi, Italian founder of the Clerks Regular of the Mother of God of Lucca (b. 1541)
October 16 – Dorothea Hedwig of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Princess of Anhalt-Zerbst (b. 1587)
October 19 – Jacobus Arminius, Dutch Reformed theologian (b. 1560)^[173]
December – Barnabe Barnes, English poet (b. c. 1571)^[174]
December 4 – Alexander Hume, Scottish poet (b. 1560)
December 16 – Arild Huitfeldt, Danish historian (b. 1546)

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