1610s

The 1610s decade ran from January 1, 1610, to December 31, 1619.

1610

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August 2: Henry Hudson sails into Hudson Bay.

January–March

• January 6 – Nossa Senhora da Graça incident: A Portuguese carrack sinks near Nagasaki, after fighting Japanese samurai for four nights.
• January 7 – Galileo Galilei first observes the four Galilean moons of Jupiter: Ganymede, Callisto, Europa and Io, but is unable to distinguish the latter two until the following day.
• February 24 – English courtier Thomas Roe sets out on an expedition to The Guianas and Amazon River.
• March 13 – Galileo Galilei's treatise on astronomy, Sidereus Nuncius, the first printed scientific record of observations through a telescope, is first published. ^[1]
• March 22 (March 12 O.S.) – Mikhail Skopin-Shuisky, nephew of the Tsar Vasili, liberates Moscow from rebels. ^[2][3]

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]

Births

Transcluding articles: 1610, 1611, 1612, 1613, 1614, 1615, 1616, 1617, 1618, and 1619

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
  • Francisco Ignacio Alcina, Jesuit missionary and historian (d. 1674)
  • Pierre Bourdelot, French physician (d. 1685)
  • Edmund Weaver, English politician (d. 1672)
• 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
  • Frederick Cornwallis, 1st Baron Cornwallis, English politician (d. 1662)
  • Simon Louis, Count of Lippe-Detmolt (1627–1636) (d. 1636)

• April 22 – Pope Alexander VIII (d. 1691)^[128]
• May 12 – Arent Berntsen, Norwegian statistician (d. 1680)
• May 17 – Joseph Poncet, French missionary (d. 1675)
• May 18 – Stefano della Bella, Italian printmaker (d. 1664)
• June 1 – Hendrik Martenszoon Sorgh, Dutch painter (d. 1670)
• June 17 – Birgitte Thott, Danish scholar, writer and translator (b. 1662)
• June 24 – Thomas Hales, Connecticut settler (d. 1679)

• 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
  • Francesco I d'Este, Duke of Modena, Italian noble (d. 1658)
  • Luke Robinson, English politician (d. 1669)
  • David Wemyss, 2nd Earl of Wemyss, Scottish earl (d. 1679)
• 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
  • David Christiani, German mathematician and philosopher (d. 1688)
  • Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Nottingham, son of Charles Howard (d. 1681)
• December 28 – Basil of Ostrog, Serbian Orthodox bishop venerated as Saint Vasilije (d. 1671)

• Dirck Rembrantsz van Nierop, Dutch astronomer and cartographer (d. 1682)
• Maria Cunitz, Silesian astronomer (d. 1664)
• Li Yu, Chinese writer (d. 1680)
• François Eudes de Mézeray, French historian (d. 1683)
• Karin Thomasdotter, Finnish official (d. 1697)
• Emmanuel Tzanes, Greek painter (d. 1690)
• Marie Meurdrac, French chemist and alchemist (d. 1680)
• Leonora Duarte, Flemish composer and musician (d. 1678)

• George Carteret, Jersey-born English Royalist statesman (d. 1680)
• Jeremias de Dekker, Dutch poet (d. 1666)
• Abraham Duquesne, French naval officer (d. 1688)
• Jin Shengtan, Chinese editor (d. 1661)

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
  • Magdalena Elisabeth of Hanau, German noblewoman (d. 1687)
  • Henry Sherburne, American colonist (d. 1680)

• April 11 – Karl Eusebius, Prince of Liechtenstein (d. 1684)
• April 17 – Simone Pignoni, Italian painter (d. 1698)
• May 4 – Carlo Rainaldi, Italian architect (d. 1691)
• May 16 – Pope Innocent XI (d. 1689)^[130]
• May 19 – Joachim Irgens von Westervick, Dano–Norwegian noble (d. 1675)
• June 15 – Salomon Sweers, Dutch businessman (d. 1674)
• June 22 – Pablo Bruna, blind Spanish composer and organist (d. 1679)
• June 24 – Johan Oxenstierna, Swedish count and statesman (d. 1657)
• June 28 – Robert Rich, 3rd Earl of Warwick, English noble (d. 1659)

• 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)

• October 1 – Mathias Balen, Dutch writer (d. 1691)
• October 11
  • Samuel Enys, English politician (d. 1697)
  • Hugues de Lionne, French statesman (d. 1671)
• October 22 – Jacques Esprit, French writer (d. 1677)
• October 26
  • Ove Bjelke, Norwegian civil servant (d. 1674)
  • Antonio Coello, Spanish dramatist and poet (d. 1652)
• November 1
  • François-Marie, comte de Broglie, French soldier and commander in the Thirty Years' War (d. 1656)
  • Walter J. Johnson, English explorer and fur trader (d. 1703)
• November 12 – Joachim Gersdorff, Danish politician (d. 1661)
• November 18 – Andreas Tscherning, German poet (d. 1659)
• December 23 – Abraham Wright, English theological writer and deacon (d. 1690)
• December – Leonora Baroni, Italian singer (d. 1670)

• Diego Quispe Tito, Peruvian painter (d. 1681)

• Charles de Batz-Castelmore d'Artagnan, French count and musketeer, on whom the fictional character from the novel The Three Musketeers is based (d. 1673)

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
  • Matthew Babington, English politician (d. 1669)
  • Joannes Meyssens, Flemish painter (d. 1670)
• 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
  • Claude Françoise de Lorraine, Princess of Lorraine (d. 1648)
  • Louis Maracci, Italian priest (d. 1700)
• October 14
  • Pierre Bailloquet, French missionary (d. 1692)
  • Thomas Fitch, Connecticut settler (d. 1704)
• 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
  • Jean Garnier, French historian (d. 1681)
  • August Philipp, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, Danish-German prince and member of the House of Oldenburg (d. 1675)
  • Richard Sherlock, English priest (d. 1689)
• 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
  • Noël Chabanel, French Jesuit missionary at Sainte-Marie among the Hurons (d. 1649)
  • William Thomas, Welsh Anglican bishop (d. 1689)
• 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
  • Stjepan Gradić, Croatian philosopher and scientist (d. 1683)
  • Anna Moroni, Italian educator (d. 1675)
• 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
  • Giulio Bartolocci, Italian Biblical scholar (d. 1687)
  • Charles de Saint-Évremond, French soldier and writer (d. 1703)
• 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
  • Luisa de Guzmán, Duchess of Braganza, queen consort of Portugal (d. 1666)
  • Adriaan Heereboord, Dutch philosopher (d. 1661)
• 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)

• Henry Vane, English politician (d. 1662)
• Khushal Khan Khattak, Afghan poet (d. 1690)

• Richard Crashaw, English poet (d. 1649)

1614

Christopher Merret

Jahanara Begum

Martino Martini

• January 1
  • Henry Frederick, Hereditary Prince of the Palatinate (d. 1629)
  • Luis Guillermo de Moncada, 7th Duke of Montalto, Spanish Catholic cardinal (d. 1672)
• 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
  • Thomas Chicheley, English politician who fell from favour, during the reign of James II (d. 1699)
  • Juan Carreño de Miranda, Spanish artist (d. 1685)

• 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
  • Hieronymus van Beverningh, Dutch diplomat and politician (d. 1690)
  • Marc'Antonio Pasqualini, Italian opera singer and composer (d. 1691)
• 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)

• Franciscus Sylvius, German scientist (d. 1672)
• Song Wan, Qing dynasty poet and politician

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

• April 7 – Charles Cotterell, English courtier (d. 1701)
• April 9 – John Wright, British politician (d. 1683)
• April 16 – Edward Rawson, American settler (d. 1693)
• April 17 – Jacques Goulet, early pioneer in New France (now Québec) (d. 1688)
• April 24 – Klas Hansson Bjelkenstjerna, Swedish naval officer and civil servant (d. 1662)
• May 30 – Richard Neville, English soldier and MP (d. 1676)
• June 3 – Giles Strangways, English politician (d. 1675)
• June 15 – Samuel Sandys, English politician (d. 1685)
• June 20 (or July 31) – Salvator Rosa, Italian painter (d. 1673)

• 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
  • Landgravine Sophie of Hesse-Kassel, Countess of Schaumburg-Lippe (d. 1670)
  • William Turner, British politician (d. 1693)
• 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:
  • Osoet Pegua, Thai businesswoman (d. 1658)
  • Gironima Spana, Italian poisoner (d. 1659)
  • John Lacy, English actor and playwright (d. 1681)

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
  • Kaspar Förster, German singer and composer (d. 1673)
  • Frederick of Hesse-Darmstadt, German Catholic cardinal (d. 1682)
• 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
  • Ferdinand Bol, Dutch Dutch painter, etcher and draftsman (d. 1680)
  • Philipp, Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (1661–1671) (d. 1671)
• 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)

• Caesar van Everdingen, Dutch older brother of Allart van Everdingen (d. 1678)
• Matthias Weckmann, German musician/composer (d. 1674)
• Trijntje Keever, presumed to have been the tallest woman ever (d. 1633)
• A Greenland shark, still alive

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
  • Isaac de Porthau, Gascon black musketeer of the Maison du Roi (d. 1712)
  • William Sancroft, 79th Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1693)
• 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
  • David Ancillon, French Huguenot pastor and author (d. 1692)
  • Johann Georg Macasius, German physician (d. 1653)

• 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
  • Cornelius Hazart, Dutch Jesuit priest, polemical author (d. 1690)
  • Antoine Garaby de La Luzerne, French poet (d. 1679)
• 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)

• Paolo Casati, Italian Jesuit mathematician (d. 1707)
• Lozang Gyatso, 5th Dalai Lama (d. 1682)

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
  • François Blondel, French architect (d. 1686)
  • Ippolito Lante Montefeltro della Rovere, Italian nobleman and Duke of Bomarzo (d. 1688)
• 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
  • Willem Ogier, Flemish playwright (d. 1689)
  • George Stewart, 9th Seigneur d'Aubigny, Scottish nobleman and military commander (d. 1642)
• 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
  • Edward Bayntun, English politician (d. 1679)
  • Nicholas Delves, English politician (d. 1690)
• 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]

• Athittayawong, Ayutthayan monarch (d. 1629)
• Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington, English politician (member of the Cabal) d. 1685)

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
  • Thomas Archer, English politician (d. 1685)
  • Alexander von Spaen, German general (d. 1692)
• January 17 – Johanna Elisabeth of Nassau-Hadamar, by marriage Princess of Anhalt-Harzgerode (d. 1647)
• January 21
  • Anders Bording, Danish writer (d. 1677)
  • John Rashleigh, English politician (d. 1693)
• 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
  • Robert Aske, merchant in the City of London (d. 1689)
  • Charles Le Brun, French painter and art theorist (d. 1690)^[152]
• 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)

• April 2
  • Onofrio Gabrieli, Italian painter (d. 1706)
  • Anna Sophia I, Abbess of Quedlinburg, Dutch abbess (d. 1680)
• April 11 – Abraham van der Hulst, Dutch admiral (d. 1666)
• April 21 – Jan van Riebeeck, Dutch founder of Cape Town (d. 1677)
• April 30 – Johannes Spilberg, Dutch painter (d. 1690)
• May
  • James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount of Stair, Scottish lawyer and statesman (d. 1695)
  • André Félibien, French court historian (d. 1695)
  • Andrew Ramsay, Lord Abbotshall, Scottish judge and politician (d. 1688)
• May 20 – Abiezer Coppe, English "Ranter" and pamphleteer (d. 1672)
• May 24 (bapt.) – Philips Wouwerman, Dutch painter (d. 1668)
• May 26 – King Pye Min of Burma (d. 1672)
• June 13 – Jan Victors, Dutch painter (d. 1676)
• June 14 (bapt.) – Sir Jeffrey Hudson, English court dwarf (d. 1682)
• June 24 – Rijcklof van Goens, Dutch colonial governor (d. 1682)

• 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
  • Francesco Maria Farnese, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1647)
  • Hubertus Quellinus, Flemish artist (d. 1687)
• August 21 – Sir John Borlase, 1st Baronet, English politician (d. 1672)
• August 28
  • Anne Geneviève de Bourbon, French princess who is remembered for her beauty and amours (d. 1679)
  • Louis Thomassin, French bishop and theologian (d. 1695)
• 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
  • Josias Calmady, English Member of Parliament (d. 1683)
  • Princess Elisabeth Sophie of Saxe-Altenburg, German princess (d. 1680)
• 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
  • John Fitzjames, English politician (d. 1670)
  • Sylvester Maurus, Italian Jesuit theologian (d. 1687)

• 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)

Deaths

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1610

Princess Anna Maria of Sweden

Servant of God Matteo Ricci

King Henry IV of France

Thomas Tesdale

Adam Elsheimer

• January 1
  • Cinzio Passeri Aldobrandini, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1551)
  • François Feuardent, French theologian (b. 1539)
• 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
  • Valeriano Muti, Italian Catholic prelate (year of birth unknown)
  • Hasegawa Tōhaku, Japanese painter (b. 1539)
• 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)

• April 7 – Hirata Masumune, Japanese samurai (b. 1566)
• April 15 – Robert Parsons, English Jesuit priest (b. 1546)
• April 24 – Anna of Holstein-Gottorp, German noblewoman (b. 1575)
• May 11
  • Ikoma Kazumasa, Japanese samurai (b. 1555)
  • Matteo Ricci, Italian Jesuit priest and servant of God (b. 1552)
• May 14 – King Henry IV of France, (assassinated) (b. 1553)^[154]
• May 17 – Gervase Babington, English churchman (b. 1549)
• May 19 – Thomas Sanchez, Spanish theologian (b. 1550)
• May 27 – François Ravaillac, French assassin of Henry IV of France (executed) (b. 1578)
• June 4 – David Hilchen, Baltic German humanist and politician (b. 1561)
• June 13 – Thomas Tesdale, English maltster (b. 1547)

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)

• October 14 – Amago Yoshihisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1540)
• November 2 – Richard Bancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1544)
• November 24 – Duchess Sophie of Prussia, duchess consort of Courland (1609–1610) (b. 1582)
• December 3 – Honda Tadakatsu, Japanese soldier (b. 1548)
• December 10 – John Roberts, Welsh Benedictine monk and priest (b. 1577)
• December 11
  • Adam Elsheimer, German artist working in Rome who died at only thirty-two (b. 1578)
  • False Dmitry II, pretender to the Russian throne
• December 21 – Catherine Vasa, Swedish princess (b. 1539)
• December 31 – Ludolph van Ceulen, German mathematician (b. 1540)

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)

• April 23 – Martin Ruland the Younger, German alchemist (b. 1569)
• May 19
  • Frederick IX, Margrave of Brandenburg, Grand Master of the Order of Saint John (b. 1588)
  • Zhu Zaiyu, Chinese mathematician, music theorist (b. 1536)
• June 8 – Jean Bertaut, French poet (b. 1552)^[155]
• June 23 – Christian II, Elector of Saxony (b. 1583)

• 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)

• October 3
  • Margaret of Austria, Queen of Spain (b. 1584)
  • Charles of Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne, French military leader (b. 1554)
• October 11 – Thomas Blague, English priest and writer (b. 1545)
• October 30 – King Charles IX of Sweden (b. 1550)^[157]
• November 6 – Peter Vok, Czech noble (b. 1539)
• November 17 – Nicolas Henri, Duke of Orléans, French duke (b. 1607)
• November 22 – Thomas Berkeley, English politician (b. 1575)

• Camillo Mariani, Italian sculptor (b. 1565)
• Tiryaki Hasan Pasha, Turkish beylerbey (b. 1530)
• Henry Hudson, English explorer^[158]

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
  • Emanuel van Meteren, Flemish historian (b. 1535)^[161]
  • Edward Wightman, English Baptist preacher (burned at the stake) (b. 1580)
• 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
  • Ottavio Mirto Frangipani, Italian bishop and papal diplomat (b. 1544)
  • John Salusbury, Welsh politician (b. 1567)^[163]
• 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
  • Menso Alting, Dutch preacher and reformer (b. 1541)
  • Giovanni Battista Guarini, Italian poet (b. 1538)^[167]
• 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
  • Nicholas Fitzherbert, English martyr (b. 1550)
  • Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, elder son of King James I & VI and Anne of Denmark (b. 1594)^[168]
• 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
  • Juan Fernández de Olivera, Spanish colonial governor (b. 1560)
  • Elizabeth Jane Weston, English Czech poet (b. 1582)
• 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]

• Federico Barocci, Italian painter (b. c. 1535)
• Isabel Barreto, Spanish admiral (b. 1567)

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
  • Sigrid Sture, Swedish Governor (b. 1538)
  • Ikeda Terumasa, Japanese daimyō (b. 1565)
• 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
  • Francesco Grimaldi, Italian architect (b. 1543)
  • Thomas Twyne, English actor (b. 1543)
• 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
  • Carlo Gesualdo, Italian composer (b. 1566)^[172]
  • James Pemberton, British goldsmith (b. 1550)
• 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
  • Phùng Khắc Khoan, Vietnamese military strategist, politician, diplomat and poet (b. 1528)
  • Beatrice Michiel, Venetian spy (b. 1553)

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
  • Maximilian of Austria, Roman Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela (1603–1614) (b. 1555)
  • Isaac Casaubon, French-born classical scholar (b. 1559)
• July 4 – Johannes Magirus the elder, German Lutheran theologian (b. 1537)
• July 6
  • Sir Anthony Cope, 1st Baronet, English politician (b. 1548)
  • Man Singh I, Rajput Raja of Amer, India (b. 1550)
• 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)

• October 2 – Carlo Sellitto, Italian painter (b. 1581)
• October 9 – Bonaventura Vulcanius, Flemish Renaissance humanist (b. 1538)
• October 15 – Peder Claussøn Friis, Norwegian clergyman and author (b. 1545)
• October 26 – Sibylla of Anhalt, Duchess consort of Württemberg (1593–1608) (b. 1564)
• November 15 – Catherine, Duchess of Braganza, Portuguese infanta (princess), claimant to the throne following the death of King Henry (b. 1540)
• November 29 – Mogami Yoshiaki, Japanese daimyō of the Yamagata domain (b. 1546)
• December 27 – Maximiliaan de Vriendt, Dutch new Latin poet and a civic office-holder in the city of Ghent (b. 1559)

• Bartholomäus Scultetus, mayor of Görlitz (b. 1540)
• Ebba Stenbock, politically active Swedish-Finnish noblewoman

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]

• April 1 – Miklós Istvánffy, Hungarian politician (b. 1538)
• April 12 – William Lower, British astronomer (b. 1570)
• May 4 – Adriaan van Roomen, Flemish mathematician (b. 1561)
• May 5 – Juan Fernandez Pacheco, 5th Duke of Escalona, Spanish noble and diplomat (b. 1563)
• May 9 – John Perrin, English translator (b. 1558)
• May 15
  • Henry Bromley, English politician (b. 1560)
  • William Wilson, English priest (b. 1545)
• May 20 – Dirck van Os, Dutch merchant (b. 1556)
• June 2
  • Kuwana Yoshinari, Japanese samurai (b. 1551)
  • Kimura Shigenari, Japanese samurai (b. 1593)
• June 3
  • Hattori Masanari, Japanese samurai (b. 1565)
  • Sanada Yukimura, Japanese samurai (b. 1567)
• June 4 – Ujiie Yukihiro, Japanese samurai and feudal lord, from the Sengoku period to the beginning of Edo period (b. 1546)
• June 23
  • Roland Lytton, English politician (b. 1561)
  • Mashita Nagamori, minor Japanese daimyō (b. 1545)

• July 26 – Alonso Pérez de Guzmán, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia (b. 1550)
• July 30 – Evert Horn, Swedish soldier (b. 1585)
• August 7 – Melchior Vulpius, German singer and composer (b. 1570)
• August 23 – Duke François de Joyeuse (b. 1562)
• September 1 – Étienne Pasquier, French lawyer and man of letters (b. 1529)
• September 9 – Virginio Orsini, Duke of Bracciano (b. 1572)
• September 11 – Vitus Miletus, German theologian (b. 1549)
• September 25 – Arbella Stuart, English noblewoman and woman of letters (b. 1575)

• October 9 – Hasan Kafi Pruščak, Bosnian scholar and judge (b. 1544)
• October 16
  • Françoise de Cezelli, French war hero (b. 1558)
  • Ferenc Forgách, Archbishop of Esztergom, Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1560)
• 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
  • Mikołaj Krzysztof "the Orphan" Radziwiłł, Polish-Lithuanian noble (szlachcic) (b. 1549)
  • Vincent Skinner, English Member of Parliament (b. 1543)
• 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
  • Maria Anna of Bavaria, daughter of William V, Duke of Bavaria and Renata von Lothringen (b. 1574)
  • Giulio Cesare Casseri, Italian anatomist (b. 1552)
• 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
  • (O.S., Tuesday) – William Shakespeare, English playwright and poet (b. 1564)^[178]
  • (Inca date unknown) Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Peruvian author (b. 1539)
• 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)

• July 2 – Bernardino Realino, Italian Jesuit (b. 1530)
• July 7
  • Charles Philippe de Rodoan, third bishop of Middelburg and the fourth bishop of Bruges (b. 1552)
  • Anna of Württemberg, German princess (b. 1561)
• July 20
  • Honda Masanobu, Japanese commander and daimyō (b. 1538)
  • Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone, Irish soldier (b. 1540)^[76]
• July 25 – Andreas Libavius, German physician and chemist (b. 1555)
• July 29 – Tang Xianzu, Chinese playwright and poet (b. 1550)
• July 31 – Roger Wilbraham, Solicitor-General for Ireland (b. 1553)
• August 3 – Hans Meinhard von Schönberg, German military commander (b. 1582)
• August 7
  • Scipione Gentili, Italian law professor and legal writer (b. 1563)
  • Vincenzo Scamozzi, Italian architect (b. 1548)
• August 8
  • Cornelis Ketel, Dutch painter (b. 1548)
  • Henry Lennard, 12th Baron Dacre, English baron and politician (b. 1570)
• August 31 – Henry Poole, English politician (b. 1541)
• September 24
  • Henry Baynton, English Member of Parliament (b. 1571)
  • John Scott, English politician (b. 1570)
• September 29 – Henry Clinton, 2nd Earl of Lincoln, English politician (b. 1539)

• 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)

• Shimozuma Chūkō, Japanese monk of the Hongan-ji (b. 1551)
• Meir Lublin, Polish rabbi (b. 1558)

• Hendrick Christiaensen, Dutch explorer
• Krzysztof Klabon, Polish Renaissance composer (b. 1550)
• Alexander Whitaker, Virginia Colony religious leader (b. 1585)

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)

• April 1 – Ralph Eure, 3rd Baron Eure, English politician (b. 1558)
• April 4 – John Napier, Scottish mathematician (b. 1550)^[180]
• April 5 – Alonso Lobo, Spanish composer (b. 1555)
• May 3 – Aleixo de Menezes, Portuguese Catholic archbishop (b. 1559)
• May 7
  • David Fabricius, Frisian astronomer (b. 1564)
  • Jacques Auguste de Thou, French historian (b. 1553)
• May 11 – Jean Chapeauville, Belgian theologian and historian (b. 1551)
• May 16 – Nicolas de Montmorency (b. 1556)
• May 29 – Roger Owen, English politician (b. 1573)
• June 20 – Raja Wodeyar I, King of Mysore (b. 1552)
• June 27 – Jerome Xavier, Spanish Jesuit missionary (b. 1549)

• 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
  • Emperor Go-Yōzei of Japan (b. 1571)
  • Francisco Suárez, Spanish Jesuit priest (b. 1548)
• 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)

• Tarquinia Molza, Italian singer (b. 1542)

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
  • John, Duke of Östergötland (b. 1589)
  • Countess Palatine Barbara of Zweibrücken-Neuburg and by marriage Countess of Oettingen-Oettingen (b. 1559)
• 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)

• July 20 – James Montague, British bishop (b. 1568)
• July 24 – Nicolò Rusca, Italian priest who served in Como (b. 1563)
• July 26 – Martinus Smiglecius, Polish philosopher (b. 1564)
• August 7 – Princess Maria Elizabeth of Sweden, Swedish princess (b. 1596)
• August 23 – Gerbrand Adriaenszoon Bredero, Dutch writer (b. 1585)
• August 28 – Albert Frederick, Duke of Prussia (b. 1553)
• September 3 – Frederik van den Bergh, Dutch soldier in the Eighty Years' War (b. 1559)
• September 28 – Joshua Sylvester, English poet (b. 1563)

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
  • Charles, Margrave of Burgau, German nobleman (b. 1560)
  • Prospero Farinacci, Italian jurist (b. 1554)
• 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]

• Ebba Bielke, Swedish baroness and conspirator (b. 1570)
• Christina Rauscher, German official and critic of witchcraft persecutions (b. 1570)

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
  • William Cooke, English politician (b. 1572)
  • Anne of Denmark, Queen of James I of England (b. 1574)^[185]
• March 5 – Demeter Naprágyi, Hungarian Catholic archbishop (b. 1564)
• March 13 – Richard Burbage, English actor (b. c. 1567)^[186]
• March 15
  • Michael Balfour, 1st Lord Balfour of Burleigh, Scottish nobleman
  • Orsolya Dersffy, Hungarian noble (b. 1583)
• March 18 – Chō Tsuratatsu, Japanese samurai (b. 1546)
• March 20
  • Ippolito Galantini, founder of the Congregation of Christian Doctrine of Florence (b. 1565)
  • Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor, Austrian Habsburg ruler (b. 1557)

• 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)

• July 2 – Francis II, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg (1586–1619) (b. 1547)
• July 22 – Lawrence of Brindisi, Italian saint (b. 1559)
• July 24 – Nabeshima Naoshige, Japanese samurai (b. 1537)
• August 3 – Dorothy Percy, Countess of Northumberland, younger daughter of Walter Devereux (b. c. 1564)
• August 19
  • Thomas Dale, English colonial governor (b. 1570)
  • Jørgen Lunge, Danish politician (b. 1577)
• August 29 – Ferdinando Taverna, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1558)
• August 30 – Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1535)
• September – Hans Lippershey, Dutch lensmaker (b. 1570)
• September 3 – John Gordon, Scottish bishop (b. 1544)
• September 7
  • Marko Krizin, Croatian Catholic priest (martyred) (b. 1585)
  • Stephen Pongracz, Hungarian saint (b. 1584)
  • Sur Singh, ruler of Marwar (b. 1571)

• October
  • Robert Peake the Elder, English court portrait painter (b. c. 1551)
  • Nicholas Yonge, English singer and publisher (b. c. 1560)
• October 9 – Joseph Pardo, Italian rabbi and merchant (b. c. 1561)
• October 14 – Samuel Daniel, English poet (b. 1562)
• October 18 – Petrus Gudelinus, Belgian jurist (b. 1550)
• October 19 – Fujiwara Seika, Japanese philosopher (b. 1561)
• November 13 – Ludovico Carracci, Italian painter (b. 1555)
• December 23 – John Sigismund, Elector of Brandenburg from the House of Hohenzollern (b. 1572)
• December 29
  • Antoine Arnauld, French lawyer (b. 1560)
  • Prince Jeongwon, Korean prince (b. 1580)

• Bagrat VII of Kartli (b. 1569)
• François d'Amboise, French jurist and writer (b. 1550)
• Thomas Stephens, English Jesuit missionary in Portuguese India (b. c. 1549)
• Caterina Vitale, Maltese pharmacist (b. 1566)