1590s

The 1590s decade ran from January 1, 1590, to December 31, 1599.

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1590

January–June

July–December

Date unknown
  • Orthodox Patriarch Meletius I of Alexandria succeeds Silvester.
  • Japan is united by Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
  • The Spanish are pushed out of southern Gelderland, by the Dutch forces.

1591

January–June

July–December
  • July – Battle of Bhuchar Mori in Gujarat: the Mughal Empire gains a decisive victory over the Nawanagar State.
  • July 22 – The Durtnell (Dartnell) family of Brasted, Kent, England, begin to work as building contractors. The business continues under thirteen generations of the family until ceasing to trade in 2019.[8]
  • July 25 – Siege of Knodsenburg: Maurice of Nassau and Francis Vere defeat the Duke of Parma outside Nijmegen.
  • August – Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex leads an English army in support of the Protestant Henry IV of France at the Siege of Rouen.[7]
  • August–September – During this year's Atlantic hurricane season, probably the most severe of the pre-1600 seasons, at least eight intense hurricanes occur.
  • August 30–September 1 – Battle of Flores off Flores Island (Azores): the Spanish fleet is victorious over the English; English ship Revenge is captured on September 1 (and Richard Grenville fatally wounded) but soon afterwards lost with all hands in a week-long storm, along with a large number of the Spanish ships.
  • September 14 – Siege of Hulst: Hulst is captured by Maurice.
  • October 8 – The Separation Edict, a law preventing social mobility in Japan, is promulgated by Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
  • October 21 – Siege of Nijmegen: Nijmegen is captured by Maurice.
  • October 26 – The Portuguese invasion of Jaffna Kingdom begins.
  • October 29 – Pope Innocent IX succeeds Pope Gregory XIV, becoming the 230th pope.[9]

Date unknown
  • The city of Hyderabad, India is founded by Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah.[10]
  • The Rialto Bridge in Venice, designed by Antonio da Ponte, is completed.
  • The first of the Conimbricenses commentaries on Aristotle, by the Jesuits of the University of Coimbra, is published. [11]
  • The Siamese-Cambodian War begins.
  • The defeated Askia Dynasty move to the Dendi province in modern-day Niger.

1592

January–June

July–December
  • July 20 – The Japanese capture the Korean capital Hanyang, causing Seonjo to request the assistance of Ming dynasty Chinese forces, who recapture the city a year later.
  • July 30 – Alonso de Sotomayor petitions the viceroy of Peru for more troops to help resist attacks by Indians and English pirates.
  • August – 1592–1593 London plague breaks out in England.
  • August 9 – English explorer John Davis, commander of the Desire, probably discovers the Falkland Islands.
  • August 14 – Battle of Hansan Island: The Korean navy defeats the Japanese.[14]
  • September 1 – Battle of Busan: The Korean fleet makes a surprise attack on the Japanese but fails to break their supply lines to Busan.
  • September 7 – The captured Madre de Deus enters Dartmouth harbour in England and is then subjected to mass theft.
  • October 5 – Siege of Jinju: The Korean navy is victorious over the Japanese.
  • November 3 – The city of San Luis Potosí is founded.
  • November 9 – The Sixto-Clementine Vulgate is promulgated.[15]
  • November 17 – John III is succeeded by his son Sigismund as King of Sweden.
  • November 12 – The Collegium Melitense is founded in Malta by Bishop Garagallo.

Date unknown

1593

January–December
  • January – Siege of Pyongyang (1593): A Japanese invasion is defeated in Pyongyang by a combined force of Korean and Ming troops.[16]
  • January 18 – Siamese King Naresuan, in combat on elephant back, kills Burmese Crown Prince Mingyi Swa on Monday, Moon 2 Waning day 2, Year of the Dragon, Chulasakarat 954, reckoned as corresponding to January 25, 1593, of the Gregorian calendar, and commemorated as Royal Thai Armed Forces Day.
  • January 27 – The Roman Inquisition opens the seven-year trial of scholar Giordano Bruno.
  • February 2 – Battle of Piątek: Polish forces led by Janusz Ostrogski are victorious.[17]
  • February 12 – Battle of Haengju: Korea defeats Japan.[18]
  • March 7 (February 25 Old Style) – The Uppsala Synod discontinues; the Liturgical Struggle between the Swedish Reformation and Counter-Reformation ends in Sweden.
  • March 14 – The Pi Day, giving the most digits of Pi when written in mm/dd/yyyy format (this year Flemish mathematician Adriaan van Roomen arrives at 15 decimal places of Pi using the polygon approximation method).
  • April 18 – Anglo-Spanish War: Naval Battle of Blaye in the Gironde estuary sees a Spanish victory over the blockading English fleet, allowing the Spanish to relieve the French Catholic garrison of Blaye.[19]
  • After April – William Shakespeare's poem Venus and Adonis probably becomes his first published work, printed in London from his own manuscript. In his lifetime it will be his most frequently reprinted work: at least nine times.[20]
  • May 5 – "Dutch church libel" bills posted in London threaten Protestant refugees from France and the Netherlands, alluding to Christopher Marlowe's plays.
  • May 12 – English dramatist Thomas Kyd is arrested over the "Dutch church libel". "Atheist" literature found in his home is claimed to be Marlowe's.
  • May 18 – A warrant for the arrest of Christopher Marlowe is issued. On May 20 he presents himself to the Privy Council.
  • May 30 – Christopher Marlowe is stabbed to death in a dispute over a bill at a lodging house in Deptford.[21]
  • June 7 – Battle of Salbertrand in Piedmont: Victory of François de Bonne, Duke of Lesdiguières, over the Spanish of Rodrigue Alvarez of Toledo, allies of Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy.[22]
  • June 22 – Battle of Sisak in Croatia: The Habsburgs defeat the Ottoman Empire.[23]
  • July 25 – As he promised in January, Henry IV of France abjures Protestantism at the Basilica of Saint-Denis.[24] Legend attributes to him the saying Paris vaut bien une messe ("Paris is well worth a mass").[25]
  • July 29 – The Long War breaks out in Hungary between the Habsburgs and the Ottomans.
  • October 24–25 – Supposed date of the event described in the 1593 transported soldier legend.

Date unknown
  • Mihai Viteazul becomes prince of Walachia.
  • Robert Bellarmine's Disputationes de Controversiis Christianae Fidei adversus hujus temporis Haereticos ("Controversiae") concludes publication in Ingolstadt.
  • Henry Constable's Spirituall Sonnettes are written.[26]
  • The parish of Laukaa was founded.[27]
  • Khwaja Usman takes shelter in Goyghor Mosque after the Afghan rebellion against the Subahdar of Mughal Bengal, Man Singh I.[28]
  • Irish pirate queen Grace O'Malley meets with Queen Elizabeth I of England at Greenwich.[29]
  • c. 1593-1604 – According to John Warwick Montgomery, the Rosicrucian manifestos are initially composed by Tobias Hess, in anticipation of the opening of the vault in 1604, according to Simon Studion's apocalyptic timetable.

1594

January–June
  • March 21 – Henry IV enters his capital of Paris for the first time.
  • April 17 – Hyacinth of Poland is canonized.
  • May
    • Uprising in Banat of Serbs against Ottoman rule ends with the public burning of Saint Sava's bones in Belgrade, Serbia.
    • Nine Years' War (Ireland): Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone and Hugh Roe O'Donnell form an alliance to try to overthrow English domination.[7]
  • June 5 – Willem Barents makes his first voyage to the Arctic Ocean, in search of the Northeast Passage.
  • June 11 – Philip II of Spain recognizes the rights and privileges of the local nobles and chieftains in the Philippines, which paves the way for the stabilization of the rule of the Principalía.
  • June 22–23 – Anglo-Spanish War: Action of Faial – In the Azores, an English attempt to capture the large Portuguese carrack Cinco Chagas, reputedly one of the richest ever to set sail from the East Indies, causes it to explode with the loss of all but 13 of the 700 on board, and all the treasure.

July–December
  • July 1 or July 2 – Anglo-Spanish War: Action of Atacames Bay – English privateer Richard Hawkins in the Dainty is attacked and captured by a Spanish squadron off Esmeraldas, Ecuador.
  • July 3 – The Ayutthayan–Cambodian War (1591–1594) concludes when Naresuan, ruler of the Ayutthaya Kingdom, sacks Longvek, capital of Cambodia.
  • July 22 – After a two-month siege, the city of Groningen submits to Dutch troops, bringing the whole northern Netherlands under the Dutch Republic.
  • August 30 – Diplomats meet at Stirling Castle for the Masque at the baptism of Prince Henry.[30]
  • October 9 – The Campaign of Danture, which began on July 5 as part of the Sinhalese–Portuguese War, concludes with a decisive victory by forces of the Kingdom of Kandy over the Portuguese Empire, reversing near-total control of Sri Lanka by Portugal.

Date unknown
  • St. Paul's College is founded in Macau by Jesuits, being the first western style university in the far east.
  • In Amsterdam, the Compagnie van Verre is created, with the goal of breaking the Portuguese monopoly on spice trade.
  • Tulip bulbs planted by Carolus Clusius in the Hortus Botanicus Leiden, Holland, first flower.
  • The city of Pompeii is rediscovered after its loss following the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

1595

January–June

July–December

Date unknown

1596

January–June

July–December
  • July 5 – Capture of Cádiz: An English fleet, commanded by Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, and Lord Howard of Effingham, sacks Cádiz.
  • July 14 – King Dominicus Corea (Edirille Bandara) is beheaded by the Portuguese in Colombo, Ceylon.
  • August – David Fabricius discovers the star Mira.
  • September 20 – Diego de Montemayor founds the city of Monterrey, Mexico.
  • October 8–10 – The Union of Brest: The Ukrainian Church west of the Dnieper becomes known as the Ukrainian Rite of Catholicism, whereas the East officially renounces the authority of the Pope.[34]
  • October 18 – The Second Armada, a Spanish fleet sent to attack England in revenge for the raid on Cadiz, is wrecked in storms off Cape Finisterre; nearly 5,000 men and 44 ships are lost including five galleons
  • October 19 – The Spanish galleon San Felipe founders in Japan, leading to 26 Christians being martyred the next year.
  • October 24–26 – Battle of Keresztes: The Turks defeat a combined Habsburg–Transylvanian army.[35]
  • November 25 – The Cudgel War began in Finland (at the time part of Sweden), when poor peasants rose up against the troops, nobles and cavalry who taxed them.[36]

Date unknown
  • Elizabeth I of England decrees that all Africans should be removed from the British realm, in reaction to the food crisis.[37]
  • The first water closet, by Sir John Harington, is installed in a manor near Kelston in England.
  • King Sigismund III Vasa moves the capital of Poland from Kraków to Warsaw.
  • Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, is founded.
  • The Black Death hits parts of Europe.
  • Dutch ships, commanded by Frederick de Houtman, reach Sumatra and Java for the first time.
  • The fourth of a five year run of poor harvests, largely caused by the weather, a pattern typical of the last third of the century. This causes famine throughout Europe, which leads to food riots in Britain.[38]
  • Serb Uprising of 1596–97

1597

January–June

July–December
  • c. July – Thomas Nashe and Ben Jonson's satirical play The Isle of Dogs is performed at the Swan Theatre in London; it is immediately suppressed by the authorities and no copy survives.
  • July 14 – Scottish poet Alexander Montgomerie is declared an outlaw, after the collapse of a Catholic plot.
  • August 13 – The Siege of Namwon begins in Korea.
  • August 14 – First Dutch Expedition to Indonesia: A Dutch expedition commanded by Cornelis de Houtman returns to Amsterdam, after having successfully reached Java. This achievement opens the Spice trade, which had until then been monopolised by the Portuguese, to the Dutch, who in the next years launch several more expeditions to the Indies.
  • August 17 – Islands Voyage: Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, and Sir Walter Raleigh set sail on an expedition to the Azores.
  • August 19 – Rheinberg capitulates to forces led by Maurice of Naussau.
  • August 24 – Christian IV of Denmark-Norway refuses to let Tycho Brahe return to Denmark.
  • August 28 – Imjin War: Battle of Chilcheollyang – The Japanese fleet defeats the Koreans, in their only naval victory of the war.[42]
  • September 25 – Amiens is retaken from the Spanish by Anglo-French forces, led by Henry IV of France, after a four-month siege.
  • October – John Gerard, a Jesuit priest, escapes from the Tower of London.
  • October/November – The 3rd Spanish Armada is dispersed by a storm; a number of Spanish ships are captured off the coasts of Wales, Cornwall and Devon.
  • October 26 – Battle of Myeongnyang: The Koreans, commanded by Yi Sunsin, are victorious over a Japanese invasion fleet.
  • November 12 – Lingen capitulates to forces led by Maurice of Nassau.

Date unknown
  • Abbas I ends the Uzbek raids on his lands.
  • Yaqob succeeds his father Sarsa Dengel, as Emperor of Ethiopia at the age of 7.
  • Jacopo Peri writes Dafne, now recognised as the first opera.
  • The first edition of Francis Bacon's Essays is published.[43]
  • Andreas Libavius publishes Alchemia, a pioneering chemistry textbook.[44]
  • 12 million pesos of silver cross the Pacific. Although it is unknown just how much silver flowed from the Spanish base of Manila in the Philippines to the Ming Dynasty of China, it is known that the main port for the Mexican silver trade—Acapulco—shipped out 150,000 to 345,000 kg (4 to 9 million taels) of silver annually from this year to 1602.
  • Tobias Hess corresponds with Simon Studion and agrees with him that the Papacy must fall in 1604.

1598

January–June

July–December
  • July – Philosopher Tommaso Campanella moves from Naples to Calabria, where he would be involved in a revolt against the rule of the Spanish viceroy the following year.[46]
  • August 14 – Battle of the Yellow Ford in Ireland: Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, gains victory over an English expeditionary force under Henry Bagenal, in the Nine Years' War against English rule.
  • September 13 – Philip III of Spain starts to rule, on the death of his father.
  • September 25 – Battle of Stångebro at Linköping in Sweden: The Catholic King Sigismund of Sweden and Poland is defeated in his attempt to resume control of Sweden by the Protestant forces of his uncle, Charles. Sigismund is deposed shortly thereafter.[47]
  • Autumn – Second Dutch Expedition to Indonesia: After being separated from the main Dutch fleet of Admiral Wybrand Van Warwyck, three ships under Jacob Corneliszoon van Neck land on the island which they name Mauritius, after Maurice, Prince of Orange, and sight the dodo.
  • December 16 (November 19 (lunar calendar)) – Battle of Noryang: An allied Korean and Chinese fleet under Korean Admiral Yi Sun-sin and Chinese Admiral Chen Lin defeats the Japanese navy, ending the Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–98).[48]
  • December 21 – Battle of Curalaba: The revolting Mapuche, led by cacique Pelantaro, inflict a major defeat on Spanish troops in southern Chile; all Spanish cities south of the Bío Bío River eventually fall victim to the Destruction of the Seven Cities by the Mapuches, and all conquest of Mapuche territories by Europeans practically ceases, until the later 19th century Occupation of Araucanía.

Date unknown
  • Carnival – Jacopo Peri's Dafne, the earliest known modern opera, is premièred at the Palazzo Corsini, Florence.[49]
  • Pentecost – Calvinist congregations in Zürich introduce music into their services.[50]
  • The Parliament of England passes the Vagabonds Act, that allows transportation of convicts to colonies.
  • Illustrations of Ottoman Turkish and European riflemen, with detailed illustrations of their firearms, appear in Zhao Shizhen's book Shenqipu in this year, during the Ming Dynasty of China.
  • The Spanish establish themselves in El Piñal, a trading port on the coast of China in the Pearl River Delta.[51]
  • New Mexico is founded as the Kingdom of Nuevo México as part of the Viceroyalty of New Spain. The Kingdom eventually became a territory of Mexico, later the New Mexico Territory in the United States, and then the U.S. State of New Mexico.

1599

January–June
  • January 8 – The Jesuit educational plan, known as the Ratio Studiorum, is issued.
  • March 12 – Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, is appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, by Queen Elizabeth I of England.
  • April 23 – The Earl of Essex arrives in Dublin at the head of 16,000 troops, the largest army ever seen in Ireland.
  • May 16 – The Kalmar Bloodbath takes place in Kalmar, Sweden.
  • May 29 – Essex takes Cahir Castle, supposedly the strongest in Ireland, after a short siege.[52]
  • June 20 – The Synod of Diamper is convened.

July–December
  • July – Second Dutch Expedition to Indonesia: A Dutch fleet returns to Amsterdam, carrying 600,000 pounds of pepper and 250,000 pounds of cloves and nutmeg.
  • July 24 – Swedish King Sigismund III Vasa is dethroned by his uncle Duke Charles, who takes over as regent of the realm until 1604, when he becomes King Charles IX.
  • August 15 – First Battle of Curlew Pass: Irish forces defeat the English.
  • September 21 – The first reported performance at the Globe Theatre in London (erected over Spring/Summer), a presentation of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (probably new to that year), is recorded by Swiss traveller Thomas Platter the Younger.
  • September 28 – The Earl of Essex arrives back in England, disobeying the Queen's strict orders.
  • October 18 – Battle of Sellenberk: Michael the Brave, Prince of Wallachia, defeats the army of Andrew Báthory near Șelimbăr, leading to the first recorded unification of the Romanians.
  • November 10 – The Åbo Bloodbath takes place in Åbo, Swedish Finland.
  • November – Persian embassy to Europe (1599–1602): A Persian embassy arrives in Moscow.
  • December 19 – The forces of Minye Thihathu II of Toungoo and his ally Min Razagyi of the Kingdom of Mrauk U end the First Toungoo Empire by capturing Pegu (modern-day Bago, Myanmar).

Date unknown

Births

1590

Emperor Ahmed I
  • January 9 – Simon Vouet, French painter (d. 1649)[53]
  • January 13 – Arthur Bell, English Franciscan martyr (d. 1643)
  • January 20 – Edward Convers, American settler (d. 1663)
  • January 27 – Charles Caesar, English politician and judge (d. 1642)
  • January 30 – Lady Anne Clifford, 14th Baroness de Clifford (d. 1676)[54]
  • February 7 – Barthold Nihus, Roman Catholic priest (d. 1657)
  • March – Roger Ludlow, one of the founders of the colony (later the state) of Connecticut (d. 1664)
  • March 6 – Margaret of the Blessed Sacrament, French Discalced Carmelite nun (d. 1660)
  • March 10 – Dietrich Reinkingk, German lawyer and politician (d. 1664)
  • March 18 – Manuel de Faria e Sousa, Spanish and Portuguese historian and poet (d. 1649)
  • March 29 – Michael Reyniersz Pauw, Dutch businessman (d. 1640)
  • April 7
    • Louis de Dieu, Dutch theologian (d. 1642)
    • John Upton, English politician (d. 1641)
  • April 18 – Ahmed I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1617)
  • May – William Cecil, 17th Baron de Ros (d. 1618)
  • May 3 – Franco Burgersdijk, Dutch logician (d. 1635)
  • May 5
    • John Albert II, Duke of Mecklenburg (d. 1636)
    • Jakub Sobieski, Polish noble (d. 1646)
  • May 12 – Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1621)[55]
  • May 31 – Frances Carr, Countess of Somerset (d. 1632)
  • June 1 – Isaac Manasses de Pas, Marquis de Feuquieres, French soldier (d. 1640)
  • June 9 – Caspar Sibelius, Dutch Protestant minister (d. 1658)
  • June 19 – Philip Bell, British colonial governor (d. 1678)
  • June 24 – Samuel Ampzing, Dutch linguist and historian (d. 1632)
  • June 29 – Edward Rodney, English politician (d. 1657)
Pope Clement X
  • Angelica Veronica Airola, Italian painter (d. 1670)
  • Boris Morozov, Russian statesman and boyar (d. 1661)
  • Isaac de Caus, French landscaper (d. 1648)
  • Yamada Nagamasa, Japanese adventurer (d. 1630)
  • William Bradford, English leader of Plymouth Colony (d. 1657)
  • William Browne, English poet (d. 1645)
  • Theophilus Eaton, Puritan colonial merchant (d. 1658)
  • Kösem Sultan (d. 1651)
  • Mícheál Ó Cléirigh, Irish chronicler (d. 1643)
  • Marie Vernier, French actress (d. 1627)
  • Caterina Assandra, Italian composer (died c. 1618)
  • Magdalena Andersdotter, Norwegian-Faroese shipowner (d. 1650)
  • Teofila Chmielecka, Polish military role model (d. 1650)
  • Marie Fouquet, French medical writer and philanthropist (d. 1681)

1591

Guercino
  • January 3 – Valentin de Boulogne, French painter (d. 1632)
  • January 4 – William Spencer, 2nd Baron Spencer of Wormleighton, British baron (d. 1636)
  • January 7 – Princess Dorothea, Abbess of Quedlinburg (d. 1617)
  • January 11 – Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, English Civil War general (d. 1646)
  • January 12 – Jusepe de Ribera, Spanish Tenebrist painter and printmaker (d. 1652)
  • January 15 – David van Goorle, Dutch theologian and theoretical scientist (d. 1612)
  • January 26 – Matthew Boynton, English politician (d. 1647)
  • January 29 – Franciscus Junius, pioneer of Germanic philology (d. 1677)
  • February 8
    • Hervey Bagot, English politician (d. 1660)
    • Guercino, Italian painter (d. 1666)
  • February 13 – Antonio Sabino, Italian composer (d. 1650)
  • February 21 (or March 2) – Girard Desargues, French mathematician (d. 1661)
  • February 25 – Friedrich von Spee, German Jesuit and poet (d. 1635)
  • February 28 – Henry Clifford, 5th Earl of Cumberland, English politician (d. 1643)
  • March 2 – Willem Boreel, Dutch diplomat (d. 1668)
  • March 3 – Lucas de Wael, Flemish painter (d. 1661)
  • March 6 – Tommaso Tamburini, Italian theologian (d. 1675)
  • March 9 – Johannes Chrysostomus vander Sterre, Dutch abbot, ecclesiastical writer (d. 1652)
  • March 11 – Isabella of Savoy, Italian noble (d. 1626)
  • March 15 or 1593 – Alexandre de Rhodes, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1660)
  • March 19 – Dirck Hals, Dutch painter (d. 1656)
  • March 28 – William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, English earl (d. 1668)
  • April 5 – Prince Frederick Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1634)
  • April 11 – Bartholomeus Strobel, Silezian painter (d. 1650)
  • April 25 – Marcos de Torres y Rueda, interim viceroy of New Spain (d. 1649)
  • May 2 – Prince Francis Charles of Saxe-Lauenburg (d. 1660)
  • May 5 – Frederick Achilles, Duke of Württemberg-Neuenstadt (d. 1631)
  • May 26 – Olimpia Maidalchini, Italian noblewoman (d. 1657)
  • June 16 – Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Italian physician, mathematician, and music theorist (d. 1655)
  • June 24 – Mustafa I, sultan of the Ottoman empire (d. 1639)
  • July 4 – Jonathan Rashleigh, English politician (d. 1675)
  • July 9 – Jean Bagot, French theologian (d. 1664)
  • July 20 – Anne Hutchinson, English Puritan preacher (d. 1643)
  • August 6 – George William, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld (d. 1669)
  • August 12 – Louise de Marillac, French co-founder of the Daughters of Charity (d. 1660)
  • August 24 – Robert Herrick, English poet (d. 1674)[57]
  • August 28 – John Christian of Brieg, Duke of Brzeg (1602–1639) (d. 1639)
  • September 8 – Marie Angélique Arnauld, French abbess of the Abbey of Port-Royal (d. 1661)
Michael de Sanctis
  • David Blondel, French Protestant clergyman (d. 1655)
  • Andrew Bobola, Polish Jesuit missionary and martyr (d. 1657)
  • Thomas Goffe, English dramatist (d. 1629)
  • William Lenthall, English politician of the Civil War period (d. 1662)

1592

Emperor Shah Jahan born on January 15
Sir John Eliot born on April 11
Francis Quarles born on May 8
Emperor Hong Taiji born on November 28
  • January 5 – Shah Jahan, 5th Mughal Emperor of India from 1628 to 1658 (d. 1666)
  • January 22
    • Philippe Alegambe, Belgian Jesuit priest and bibliographer (d. 1652)
    • Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher and scientist (d. 1655)[58]
  • February 5 – Vincenzo della Greca, Italian architect (d. 1661)
  • February 22 – Nicholas Ferrar, English trader (d. 1637)
  • February 23 – Balthazar Gerbier, Dutch painter (d. 1663)
  • March 20 – Giovanni da San Giovanni, Italian painter (d. 1636)
  • March 28 – Comenius, Czech teacher and writer (d. 1670)[59]
  • April 4 – Abraham Elzevir, Dutch printer (d. 1652)
  • April 9 – Jiří Třanovský, Czech priest and musician (d. 1637)
  • April 11 – John Eliot, Member of Parliament, Statesman, Vice-Admiral of Devon (d. 1632)
  • April 15 – Francesco Maria Brancaccio, Catholic cardinal (d. 1675)
  • April 22 – Wilhelm Schickard, German inventor (d. 1635)
  • April 24
    • Marcos Ramírez de Prado y Ovando, Roman Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Mexico (d. 1667)
    • Sir John Trelawny, 1st Baronet, British baronet (d. 1664)
  • May 8 – Francis Quarles, English poet most famous for his Emblem book aptly entitled Emblems (d. 1644)
  • May 14 – Alice Barnham, wife of English scientific philosopher and statesman Francis Bacon (d. 1650)
  • June 7 – Balthasar Cordier, Belgian Jesuit exegete, editor (d. 1650)
  • June 9 – Jean de Brisacier, French Jesuit (d. 1668)
  • June 13
    • Sophia Hedwig of Brunswick-Lüneburg, German noblewoman (d. 1642)
    • Tobias Michael, German composer and cantor (d. 1657)[60]
  • Catalina de Erauso, Spanish-Mexican nun and soldier (d. 1650)
  • Richard Bellingham, American colonial magistrate (d. 1672)
  • John Hacket, English churchman (d. 1670)
  • Angélique Paulet, French salonnière, singer, musician and actress (d. 1651)
  • Ingen, Chinese Zen Buddhist poet, calligrapher (d. 1673)
  • John Jenkins, English composer (d. 1678)
  • John Oldham, early English settler in Massachusetts (d. 1636)
  • Walatta Petros, saint in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (d. 1642)
  • Sara Copia Sullam, Italian poet and writer (d. 1641)
  • Étienne Brûlé, French explorer in Canada (d. 1632)

1593

Saint Jean de Brebeuf
Catherine de' Medici, Governor of Siena
Cesare Monti
Elisabeth of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel, Duchess of Saxe-Altenburg
  • January 1 – Sun Chuanting, Ming Dynasty general (d. 1643)
  • January 10 – Prince Maurice of Savoy, Catholic cardinal and Prince of Savoy (d. 1657)
  • February 8 – Louis de Nogaret de La Valette, French Catholic Cardinal (d. 1639)
  • February 24 – Henry de Vere, 18th Earl of Oxford, English noble (d. 1625)
  • March 1 – Franz Wilhelm von Wartenberg, German Catholic cardinal (d. 1661)
  • March 13 – Georges de La Tour, French Baroque painter (d. 1652)
  • March 20 – Jean de La Haye, French preacher and biblical scholar (d. 1661)
  • March 22 – Johann Ulrich Steigleder, German composer (d. 1635)
  • March 25 – Jean de Brébeuf, French Jesuit missionary who travelled to Canada in 1625 (d. 1649)
  • April – Mumtaz Mahal, Queen of India (d. 1631)
  • April 3 – George Herbert, Welsh-born English poet (d. 1633)[61]
  • April 4 – Edward Nicholas, English statesman (d. 1669)
  • April 12 – Nicholas Martyn, English politician (d. 1653)
  • April 13 – Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, English statesman (d. 1641)
  • April 19 – Sir John Hobart, 2nd Baronet, English politician (d. 1647)
  • April 27 – Jérôme Lalemant, French Jesuit priest and missionary to Canada (d. 1673)
  • May 2
    • John Forbes, Scottish theologian (d. 1648)
    • Catherine de' Medici, Governor of Siena, Italian princess (d. 1629)
  • May 5 – Cesare Monti, Italian cardinal, Archbishop of Milan (d. 1650)
  • May 19
  • June 3 – Richard Knightley, English politician (d. 1639)
  • June 8 – George I Rákóczi, Hungarian prince of Transylvania (d. 1648)
  • June 22 – Sir John Gell, 1st Baronet, Parliamentarian politician and military figure in the English Civil War (d. 1671)
  • June 23 – Elisabeth of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Duchess of Saxe-Altenburg (d. 1650)
  • June 24 – Abraham von Franckenberg, German writer (d. 1652)
William, Margrave of Baden-Baden
Sixtinus Amama
Liborius Wagner
  • Leonardo Agostini, Italian antiquary (d. 1685)
  • Louis Barbier, French bishop (d. 1670)
  • Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford (d. 1641)
  • Claudia Rusca, Italian composer, singer, and organist (d. 1676)
  • Mervyn Tuchet, 2nd Earl of Castlehaven (d. 1631)
  • Anthony van Diemen, Dutch merchant (d. 1645)
  • Jerónimo Lobo, Portuguese Jesuit missionary (d. 1678)
  • Mikołaj Ostroróg, Polish nobleman (d. 1651)
  • Sir George Radcliffe, English politician (d. 1657)
  • Kimura Shigenari, Japanese samurai (d. 1615)
  • Giovanni Battista Pacetti, Italian painter (d. 1630)

1594

Maria Tesselschade Visscher
King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden
  • John Bramhall, English Anglican clergyman and controversialist (d. 1663)
  • Peter Oliver, English miniaturist (d. 1648)
  • Tomasz Zamoyski, Polish nobleman (d. 1638)
  • Tarquinio Merula, Italian composer (d. 1665)

1595

Hedwig of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
Jan Marek Marci
Guru Hargobind
Albrycht Stanisław Radziwiłł
  • January 15 – Henry Carey, 2nd Earl of Monmouth, English politician (d. 1661)
  • January 22 – George Rudolf of Liegnitz, Polish noble (d. 1653)
  • January 23 – Herman Fortunatus, Margrave of Baden-Rodemachern (d. 1665)
  • February 9 – Hedwig of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Duchess consort of Pomerania (d. 1650)
  • March 19 – Carlo de' Medici, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1666)
  • March 21 – Ferdinando Ughelli, Italian Cistercian monk and church historian (d. 1670)
  • March 23 – Bevil Grenville, English royalist soldier (d. 1643)
  • April 5 – John Wilson, English composer (d. 1674)
  • April 6
    • Henri II d'Orléans, Duke of Longueville, Prince of France (d. 1663)
    • Pieter de Molijn, Dutch painter (d. 1661)
  • April 12 – Miles Hobart, English politician (d. 1632)
  • April 30
    • Anne Lykke, Danish noble (d. 1641)
    • Henri II de Montmorency, French nobleman and military commander (d. 1632)
  • May 1 – Lars Kagg, Swedish count and military Officer (d. 1661)
  • May 3 – Aloysius Gottifredi, Italian Jesuit (d. 1652)
  • June 9 – King Wladislaus IV of Poland (d. 1648)[65]
  • June 10 – Aegidius Gelenius, German heraldist (d. 1656)
  • June 13
    • John Holles, 2nd Earl of Clare, English politician and Earl (d. 1666)
    • Jan Marek Marci, Bohemian physician and scientist (d. 1667)
  • June 19 – Guru Har Gobind, the Sixth Sikh Guru (d. 1644)
  • June 24 – Ulderico Carpegna, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1679)
  • July 1 – Albrycht Stanisław Radziwiłł, Polish nobleman (d. 1656)
  • July 3 – John Gurdon, English politician (d. 1679)
  • July 4 – Félix Castello, Spanish artist (d. 1651)
  • July 9 – Anna Amalia of Baden-Durlach, Regent of Nassau-Saarbrücken (d. 1651)
  • July 10 – Charles Drelincourt, French Protestant divine (d. 1669)
  • July 31 – Philipp Wolfgang, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (d. 1641)
  • August 29 – Joachim Ernest, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön (1622–1671) (d. 1671)
  • August 31 – Georges Fournier, French Jesuit mathematician and geographer (d. 1652)
  • October 18 – Lucas van Uden, Dutch painter (d. 1672)
  • October 30 – Gaj Singh of Marwar, Raja of Marwar Kingdom (r (d. 1638)
  • November 11 – Martin Bauzer, Gorizian Jesuit priest and writer (d. 1668)
  • November 13 – George William, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1640)
  • November 18
    • Niklaus Dachselhofer, Swiss politician (d. 1670)
    • Pietro Desani, Italian painter (d. 1647)
  • December 1 – Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester, English politician (d. 1677)
  • December 3 – Henry Ley, 2nd Earl of Marlborough, English politician (d. 1638)
  • December 4 – Jean Chapelain, French poet and critic during the Grand Siècle (d. 1674)
  • December 5 – Henry Lawes, English musician and composer (d. 1662)
  • December 7 – Injo of Joseon, sixteenth king of the Joseon dynasty in Korea (d. 1649)
  • December 11 – Heo Mok, Korean politician, poet and scholar (d. 1682)
  • December 14 – Arthur Wilson, English writer (d. 1652)
  • December 27 – Bohdan Khmelnytsky, hetman of Ukraine (d. 1657)
  • Thomas Carew, English poet (d. 1645)
  • Miles Corbet, English Puritan politician (d. 1662)
  • Jean Desmarets, French writer (d. 1676)
  • Henry Herbert, English official (d. 1673)
  • Lars Kagg, Swedish soldier and politician (d. 1661)
  • Thomas May, English poet and historian (d. 1650)
  • Bartholomaeus Nigrinus, Polish Rosicrucian (d. 1646)
  • Pocahontas, Algonquian princess (d. 1617)
  • Mikołaj Potocki, Polish politician (d. 1651)
  • Robert Sempill the younger, Scottish writer (d. 1663)
  • Cornelius Vermuyden, Dutch engineer (d. 1683)
  • Dirck van Baburen, Dutch painter (d. 1624)
  • Albrycht Stanisław Radziwiłł, Lithuanian chancellor (d. 1656)

1596

Jan van Goyen
René Descartes
Emperor Go-Mizunoo
  • January 1 – Elizabeth Ribbing, Swedish noble (d. 1662)
  • January 13 – Jan van Goyen, Dutch painter (d. 1656)
  • February 2
    • Jacob van Campen, Dutch artist and architect of the Golden Age (d. 1657)
    • Carew Mildmay, Member of the Parliament of England (d. 1676)
  • February 3 – Brás Garcia de Mascarenhas, soldier, poet and writer (d. 1656)
  • February 8 – Louis Giry, French lawyer, classical scholar (d. 1665)
  • February 27 – Johan Stiernhöök, Swedish lawyer (d. 1675)
  • March 1 – Duke Frederick of Saxe-Weimar, German prince and colonel (d. 1622)
  • March 10 – Princess Maria Elizabeth of Sweden (d. 1618)
  • March 11 – Isaac Elzevir, Dutch printer and publisher (d. 1651)
  • March 16 – Ebba Brahe, Swedish countess (d. 1674)
  • March 24 – Elizabeth of Hesse-Kassel, Duchess of Mecklenburg-Gütsrow (d. 1625)
  • March 26 – Catherine Henriette de Bourbon, French noble (d. 1663)
  • March 31 – René Descartes, French philosopher and mathematician (d. 1650)[66]
  • April 8 – Juan van der Hamen, Spanish artist (d. 1631)
  • April 11 – Moritz Gudenus, German Catholic preacher (d. 1680)
  • May 9 – Abraham van Diepenbeeck, Dutch painter (d. 1675)
  • May 21 – John Louis II, Count of Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein (d. 1605)
  • June 5 – Peter Wtewael, Dutch painter (d. 1660)
  • June 6 – Michel Particelli d'Emery, French politician (d. 1650)
  • June 23 – Johan Banér, Swedish field marshal in the Thirty Years' War (d. 1641)
  • June 27 – Maximilian, Prince of Dietrichstein, German prince (d. 1655)
  • June 29 – Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (d. 1680)
  • Francesco Buonamici, Italian architect, painter and engraver (d. 1677)[70]
  • John Dury, Scottish-born Calvinist minister (d. 1680)
  • Franz von Hatzfeld, Prince-Bishop of Würzburg (d. 1642)
  • Lucas Holstenius, German humanist (d. 1661)
  • Georg Jenatsch, Swiss political leader (d. 1639)
  • Richard Mather, American clergyman (d. 1669)
  • Horio Tadaharu, Japanese warlord (d. 1633)

1597

Henry Gage
Justus Sustermans
  • January 12 – François Duquesnoy, Flemish Baroque sculptor in Rome (d. 1643)
  • January 25 – Johann Philipp, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, German Duke (d. 1639)
  • January 31 – John Francis Regis, French Jesuit priest (d. 1640)
  • February 24 – Vincent Voiture, French poet (d. 1648)[71]
  • March 1 – Jean-Charles de la Faille, Belgian mathematician (d. 1652)
  • March 10 – Ercole Gennari, Italian drawer and painter (d. 1658)
  • March 18 – Jérôme le Royer de la Dauversière, French nobleman, founder of Montreal and an order of nursing Sisters (d. 1659)
  • March 21 – Juan Alonso y Ocón, Spanish Catholic prelate, Archbishop of La Plata o Charcas (d. 1656)
  • March 27 – William Hyde, President of English College, Douai (d. 1651)
  • April 9 – John Davenport, English Puritan clergyman, co-founder of the American colony of New Haven (d. 1670)
  • April 13 – Giovanni Battista Hodierna, Italian astronomer (d. 1660)
  • April 23 – Alvise Contarini, Italian diplomat, nobleman (d. 1651)
  • May 13 – Cornelis Schut, Flemish painter, draughtsman and engraver (d. 1655)
  • May 15 – Squire Bence, English politician (d. 1648)
  • May 25 – Veit Erbermann, German theologian (d. 1675)
  • May 31 – Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac, French author (d. 1654)
  • June 9 – Pieter Jansz. Saenredam, Dutch painter (d. 1665)
  • July 2 – Theodoor Rombouts, Flemish painter (d. 1637)
  • July 13 – Sebastian Stoskopff, French painter (d. 1657)
  • July 22 – Virgilio Mazzocchi, Italian Baroque composer (d. 1646)
  • July 29 – Abdias Treu, German mathematician and academic (d. 1669)
  • August 20
    • Girolamo Grimaldi-Cavalleroni, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1685)
    • Józef Bartłomiej Zimorowic, Polish poet (d. 1677)
  • August 21 – Roger Twysden, English antiquarian and royalist (d. 1672)
  • August 29 – Henry Gage, Royalist officer in the English Civil War (d. 1645)
  • September 23 – Francesco Barberini, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1679)
  • September 28 – Justus Sustermans, Flemish painter (d. 1681)
  • October 7 – Captain John Underhill, English settler and soldier (d. 1672)
  • October 13 – Otto Louis of Salm-Kyrburg-Mörchingen, Swedish general in the Thirty Years' War (d. 1634)
  • October 20 – Matthew Hutton, English politician (d. 1666)
  • November 15 – Juan Tellez-Girón y Enriquez de Ribera, 4th Duke of Osuna (d. 1656)
  • November 19 – Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate, wife of George William (d. 1660)
  • December 16
    • George Albert I, Count of Erbach-Schönberg (d. 1647)
    • Pieter de Neyn, Dutch painter (d. 1639)
  • December 22 – Frederick III, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (d. 1659)
  • December 23
    • Martin Opitz, German poet (d. 1639)
  • December 24 – Honoré II, Prince of Monaco (d. 1662)
  • Cristóbal Diatristán de Acuña, Spanish missionary and explorer (d. 1676)
  • Johan van Heemskerk, Dutch poet (d. 1656)
  • Cornelis Jol, Dutch naval commander and privateer (d. 1641)
  • Wang Wei, Chinese poet (d. 1647)

1598

Maarten Tromp
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
  • January 23 – François Mansart, French architect (d. 1666)
  • March 12 – Guillaume Colletet, French writer (d. 1659)
  • March 13 – Johannes Loccenius, German historian (d. 1677)
  • March 15 – Redemptus of the Cross, Portuguese Carmelite lay brother and martyr (d. 1638)
  • March 25
    • Ralph Corbie, Irish Jesuit (d. 1644)
    • Robert Trelawney, English politician (d. 1643)
  • March 26 – Sir William Lewis, 1st Baronet, English politician (d. 1677)
  • April 9 – Johann Crüger, German composer of well-known hymns (d. 1662)
  • April 11 – William, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, German nobleman (d. 1662)
  • April 17 – Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Italian astronomer (d. 1671)
  • April 23 – Maarten Tromp, officer and later admiral in the Dutch navy (d. 1653)
  • April 28 – Francis Leigh, 1st Earl of Chichester, English politician (d. 1653)
  • May 23 – Claude Mellan, French painter and engraver (d. 1688)
  • June 4 – Åke Henriksson Tott, Swedish soldier and politician (d. 1640)
  • June 19 – Gilbert Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1663 until his death (d. 1677)
  • Bonaventura Cavalieri, Italian mathematician (d. 1647)
  • Marmaduke Langdale, Royalist in the English Civil War (d. 1661)
  • Baldassarre Longhena, Venetian architect (d. 1682)[73]
  • Jean Nicolet, French explorer (d. 1642)
  • William Strode, English parliamentarian (d. 1645)[74]
  • Guðríður Símonardóttir, Icelandic woman known as a victim of the Turkish abductions (d. 1682)
  • probable
    • Jean-Armand du Peyrer, Comte de Tréville and French officer (d. 1672)
    • Mary Bankes, Royalist in the English Civil War, defender of Corfe Castle (d. 1661)

1599

Saint John Berchmans
Oliver Cromwell
  • October 10
    • Samuel Clarke, English writer and priest (d. 1683)
    • Étienne Moulinié, French Baroque composer (d. 1676)
  • October 11 – Abraham de Fabert, Marshal of France (d. 1662)
  • October 15 – Cornelis de Graeff, Dutch mayor (d. 1664)
  • October 28 – Marie of the Incarnation, French foundress of the Ursuline Monastery in Quebec (d. 1672)
  • October 31 – Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles, English statesman and writer (d. 1680)
  • November 5 – Carlo Emanuele Madruzzo, Italian prince-bishop (d. 1658)
  • November 11
    • Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg, German princess and queen consort of Sweden (d. 1655)
    • Ottavio Piccolomini, Austrian-Italian field marshal (d. 1656)
  • November 13 – Otto Christoph von Sparr, German general (d. 1668)
  • November 15 – Werner Rolfinck, German physician, chemist, botanist and philosopher (d. 1673)
  • November 29 – Peter Heylin, English ecclesiastic and author of many polemical works (d. 1662)
  • November 30 – Andrea Sacchi, Italian painter of High Baroque Classicism (d. 1661)
  • December 2
    • Thomas Bruce, 1st Earl of Elgin, Scottish nobleman (d. 1663)
    • Alexander Daniell, sole proprietor of the Manor of Alverton, Cornwall (d. 1668)
  • December 11 – Pieter Codde, Dutch painter (d. 1678)
  • December 14 – Charles Berkeley, 2nd Viscount Fitzhardinge, English politician (d. 1668)
  • December 16 – Jacques Vallée, Sieur Des Barreaux, French poet (d. 1673)
  • December 20 – Niels Trolle, Governor General of Norway (d. 1667)
  • December 29 – Gabriel Bucelin, German historian (d. 1681)
  • John Alden, English settler of Plymouth Colony (d. 1687)
  • Stefan Czarniecki, Polish military commander (d. 1665)
  • Lucy Hay, Countess of Carlisle, English courtier (d. 1660)
  • Charlotte Stanley, Countess of Derby defender of Latham House (d. 1664)
  • Jirgalang, Qing Dynasty prince (d. 1655)

Deaths

1590

Saint Catherine de Ricci
Pope Sixtus V
Pope Urban VII
  • Nicholas Bobadilla, one of the first Spanish Jesuits (b. 1511)
  • Marietta Robusti, Venetian Renaissance painter (b. 1555 or 1560)
  • Roger Dudley, British soldier (b. 1535)
  • Sorley Boy MacDonnell, Irish chieftain (b. 1505)
  • Juan Bautista de Pomar, Spanish colonial historian and writer
  • Catherine Salvaresso, Wallachian regent
  • Maddalena Casulana, Italian composer, lutenist and singer (d. 1544)

Bernard Palissy, French potter (b. 1510) 1591

Pope Gregory XIV
John of the Cross
Pope Innocent IX
  • Ananias Dare, father of Virginia Dare, (b. circa 1560)
  • Virginia Dare, first English child born in America, (b. 1587) (Unverified)
  • Crispin van den Broeck, Flemish painter (b. 1523)
  • John Erskine of Dun, Scottish religious reformer (b. 1509)
  • Toyotomi Hidenaga, Japanese nobleman (b. 1540)
  • John Stubbs, English pamphleteer (b. 1543)
  • Veronica Franco, Italian poet and courtesan (b. 1546)

1592

Saint Paschal Baylon died on May 17, 1592
King John III of Sweden died on November 17, 1592
  • January 5 – William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, German nobleman (b. 1516)
  • January 22 – Elisabeth of Austria, Queen of France (b. 1554)
  • January 27 – Gian Paolo Lomazzo, Italian painter (b. 1538)
  • February 2 – Ana de Mendoza, Princess of Eboli, Spanish noble (b. 1540)
  • February 29 – Alessandro Striggio, Italian composer (b. 1540)
  • March 4 – Christopher, Duke of Mecklenburg and administrator of Ratzeburg (b. 1537)
  • March 5 – Michiel Coxie, Flemish painter (b. 1499)
  • March 22 – Johann VII, Duke of Mecklenburg, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1576–1592) (b. 1558)
  • April 8 – Dorothea Susanne of Simmern, Duchess of Saxe-Weimar (b. 1544)
  • April 13 – Bartolomeo Ammannati, Italian architect and sculptor (b. 1511)
  • April 18 – George John I, Count Palatine of Veldenz (b. 1543)
  • April 21 – Christoph, Count of Hohenzollern-Haigerloch (b. 1552)
  • May 17 – Paschal Baylon, Spanish mystic and saint (b. 1540)
  • May 24 – Nikolaus Selnecker, German musician (b. 1530)
  • June 17 – Ernst Ludwig, Duke of Pomerania (b. 1545)
  • July 1 – Marc'Antonio Ingegneri, Italian composer (b. c. 1547)
  • July 4 – Francesco Bassano the Younger, Italian painter (b. 1559)
  • July 6 – John George of Ohlau, Duke of Oława and Wołów (1586-1592) (b. 1552)
  • July 18 – Sibylle of Saxony, Duchess of Saxe-Lauenburg (b. 1515)
  • July 22 – Ludwig Rabus, German martyrologist (b. 1523)
  • July 26 – Armand de Gontaut, baron de Biron, French soldier (b. 1524)
  • August 20 – William the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (b. 1535)
  • August 25
    • William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel) (b. 1532)
    • Shimazu Toshihisa, Japanese samurai (b. 1537)
  • September 3 – Robert Greene, English writer (b. 1558)
  • September 13 – Michel de Montaigne, French essayist (b. 1533)[85]
  • September 20 – Francisco Vallés, Spanish physician (b. 1524)
  • October 15 – Jean Vendeville, law professor, Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1527)
  • October 19 – Anthony Browne, 1st Viscount Montagu, English politician (b. 1528)
  • October 28 – Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Flemish diplomat (b. 1522)
  • November 17 – King John III of Sweden (b. 1537)[86]
  • November 27 – Nakagawa Hidemasa, Japanese military commander (b. 1568)
  • December 3 – Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. 1545)
  • Date unknown
    • Moderata Fonte, Italian poet, writer and philosopher (b. 1555)
    • Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, Spanish explorer (b. 1532)
    • Katharina Gerlachin, German printer (b. 1520)
    • Girolamo Muziano, Italian painter (b. 1532)

1593

Emperor Ogimachi
The Marlowe portrait, often claimed to be Christopher Marlowe, playwright
  • January 8 – Mingyi Swa, Burmese crown prince (b. 1558)
  • January 11 – Scipione Gonzaga, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1542)
  • February 6
    • Jacques Amyot, French writer (b. 1513)
    • Emperor Ōgimachi of Japan (b. 1517)
  • March 8 – Paul Luther, German scientist (b. 1533)
  • March 23 – Henry Barrowe, English Puritan and separatist (b. 1550)
  • April 6 – John Greenwood, English Puritan and separatist (hanged) (b. 1556)
  • April 24 – William Harrison, English clergyman (b. 1534)
  • May 29 – John Penry, Welsh Protestant (hanged) (b. 1559)[87]
  • May 30 – Christopher Marlowe, English poet and playwright (murdered) (b. 1564)[88]
  • June 3 – Katarina Bengtsdotter Gylta, Swedish abbess (b. 1520)
  • June 25 – Michele Mercati, Italian physician and botanist (b. 1541)
  • July 4 – Min Phalaung, Burmese monarch (b. 1535)
  • July 11 – Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Italian painter (b. 1527)
  • September 5 – Andreas von Auersperg, Carniolan noble and military commander in the battle of Sisak (b. 1556)
  • September 25 – Henry Stanley, 4th Earl of Derby, English nobleman, diplomat and politician (b. 1531)
  • October 25 – Gómez Pérez Dasmariñas, Spanish colonial administrator (murdered) (b. 1519)
  • November 11 – Albert, Count of Nassau-Weilburg (b. 1537)
  • November 20 – Hans Bol, Flemish artist (b. 1534)
  • date unknown
    • Jeong Cheol, Korean administrator and poet (b. 1536)
    • Krzysztof Kosiński, Polish noble (b. 1545)
    • Li Shizhen, Chinese physician, pharmacologist, and mineralogist (b. 1518)

1594

Tintoretto
Martin Frobisher
Gerardus Mercator

1595

Murad III
Torquato Tasso
Saint Philip Neri
Magnus, Duke of Östergötland
Patriarch Jeremias II of Constantinople
Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira

1596

Sir Francis Drake
Hattori Hanzō

1597

Willem Barentsz
Edward Kelley
Saint Peter Canisius

date unknown - Margaretha Coppier, Dutch heroine (b. 1516) 1598

Tsar Feodor I of Russia
King Philip II of Spain
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Yi Sun-sin

1599

Cornelis de Houtman
Andrew Báthory
  • January 13 – Edmund Spenser, English poet (b. 1552)[106]
  • January 22 – Cristofano Malvezzi, Italian composer (b. 1547)
  • February 8 – Robert Rollock, Scottish Presbyterian, first principal of the university of Edinburgh (b. 1555)
  • March 19 – Stanisław Radziwiłł, Grand Marshal of Lithuania (b. 1559)
  • April 10 – Gabrielle d'Estrées, mistress of King Henry IV of France (b. 1573)[107]
  • April 14 – Henry Wallop, English statesman (b. c. 1540)
  • April 22 – Lorenz Scholz von Rosenau, German botanist (b. 1552)
  • April 27 – Maeda Toshiie, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1538)
  • May 12 – Sultan Murad Mirza, Mughal prince (b. 1570)
  • May 28 – Maria of Nassau, Dutch Countess (b. 1539)
  • June 2 – Philipp V, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (b. 1541)
  • June 14 – Kōriki Masanaga, Japanese military commander (b. 1558)
  • June 29 – Archduchess Catherine Renata of Austria, Austrian archduchess (b. 1576)
  • July – Kwon Yul, Korean military commander (b. 1537)
  • July 11 – Chōsokabe Motochika, Japanese Sengoku Period daimyō
  • August 22 – Luca Marenzio, Italian composer (b. 1553)
  • September 1 – Cornelis de Houtman, Dutch explorer (b.1565)
  • September 11 – Beatrice Cenci, Italian noblewoman (executed for patricide) (b. 1577)[108]
  • August 8 – Song Ik-pil, Korean scholar (b. 1534)
  • October 18 – Daniel Adam z Veleslavína, Czech lexicographer (b. 1546)
  • November 3 – Andrew Báthory, deposed Prince of Transylvania (decapitated) (b. c. 1563)
  • November 7 – Gasparo Tagliacozzi, Italian surgeon (b. 1545)
  • November 8 – Francisco Guerrero, Spanish composer (b. 1528)[109]
  • November 22 – Nanbu Nobunao, Japanese daimyō (b. 1546)
  • December 13 – Enrico Caetani, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1550)
  • December 14 – Joan Boyle, English noble, first spouse of Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork (b. 1578)
  • December 27 – Francisco Pérez de Valenzuela, Spanish noble (b. 1528)
  • After December 18 – Minye Kyawswa II of Ava, Burmese defecting crown prince of the Toungoo Empire (killed by invading forces) (b. 1567)
  • date unknown – Chand Bibi, Indian regent and warrior (b. 1550)

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