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[[File:Assassination of Henry IV (Henry IV, King of France; François Ravaillac) by Gaspar Bouttats.jpg|thumb|300px|[[May 14]]: [[Henry IV of France]] is assassinated by [[François Ravaillac]]. ]]
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[[File:Jupiter and the Galilean Satellites.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[January 7]]: The four [[Galilean moons]] are first observed.]]
{{Year article header|1610}} Some have suggested that 1610 may mark the beginning of the [[Anthropocene]], or the 'Age of Man', marking a fundamental change in the relationship between humans and the Earth system, but earlier starting dates (ca. 1000 C.E.) have received broader consensus, based on high resolution pollution records that show the massive impact of human activity on the atmosphere.<ref>{{cite journal| author=Alexander More| title=Next generation ice core technology reveals true minimum natural levels of lead (Pb) in the atmosphere: insights from the Black Death|journal = Geohealth| volume=1| issue=4| pages=211–219|display-authors=et al| date=May 31, 2017| doi=10.1002/2017GH000064| pmid=32158988| pmc=7007106| doi-access=free| bibcode=2017GHeal...1..211M}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-31836233 |title=Anthropocene: New dates proposed for the 'Age of Man' |work=BBC |date=11 March 2015 |access-date=12 March 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title=Defining the Anthropocene |journal=Nature |date=11 March 2015 |doi = 10.1038/nature14258|last1=Lewis |first1=Simon L. |last2=Maslin |first2=Mark A. |volume=519 |issue=7542 |pages=171–180 |pmid=25762280 |bibcode=2015Natur.519..171L |s2cid=205242896 }}</ref>
== Events ==
[[File:Hudsonbay.png|thumb|right|[[August 2]]: [[Henry Hudson]] sails into [[Hudson Bay]].]]
=== January–March ===
* [[January 6]] – [[Nossa Senhora da Graça incident|''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 (moon)|Ganymede]], [[Callisto (moon)|Callisto]], [[Europa (moon)|Europa]] and [[Io (moon)|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. <ref>[https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/12/16/a-very-rare-book "A Very Rare Book"], by Nicholas Schmidle, ''The New Yorker'', December 8, 2013</ref>
* [[March 22]] (March 12 O.S.) – [[Mikhail Skopin-Shuisky]], nephew of the Tsar Vasili, liberates Moscow from rebels. <ref>N. G. Petrova, ''Skopin-Shuisky'' (Young Guard Press, 2010) (in Russian) p. 189</ref><ref>Chester Dunning, ''A Short History of Russia's First Civil War: The Time of Troubles and the Founding of the Romanov Dynasty'' (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004) pp. 272–273</ref>
=== April–June ===
* [[April 10]] – The [[Treaty of Brussol]] is signed between [[Charles Emmanuel I]], [[Duke of Savoy]], and a representative of [[Henry IV of France|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, ''[[Macbeth|The Tragedie of Macbeth]]'', is given its first performance, staged at the [[Globe Theatre]] in [[London]]. <ref>"The Tragedy of Macbeth", in ''The Oxford Shakespeare'', ed. by Nicholas Brooke (Oxford University Press, 2008) p. 234</ref>
* [[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]] – [[Henry IV of France|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 (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 (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]].<ref>Leeds Barroll, ''Anna of Denmark, A Cultural Biography'' (Pennsylvania, 2001), pp. 122–6.</ref>
* [[June 7]] – [[Jamestown, Virginia|Jamestown]]: Temporary Governor [[Thomas Gates (governor)|Gates]] decides to abandon Jamestown.
* [[June 8]] – [[Jamestown, Virginia|Jamestown]]: Temporary Governor Gates' convoy meets the ships of Governor [[Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr]] (''[[Delaware]]'') at [[Mulberry Island]].
* [[June 10]] – [[Jamestown, Virginia|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.<ref>Sam McKegney, ''Magic Weapons: Aboriginal Writers Remaking Community After Residential School'' (University of Manitoba Press, 2007) p.112</ref>
=== July–September ===
* [[July 4]] – (June 24 O.S.); [[Polish–Russian War (1609–1618)|Polish–Russian War]] – [[Battle of Klushino]]: The outnumbered forces of the [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]] defeat the combined [[Tsardom of Russia|Russian]] and [[Sweden|Swedish]] armies; Polish troops go on to occupy [[Moscow]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Heinrich von Brandt|title=In the Legions of Napoleon: The Memoirs of a Polish Officer in Spain and Russia, 1808–1813|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wudnAAAAMAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Greenhill Books|isbn=978-1-85367-380-1|page=216|language=en}}</ref>
* [[July 5]] – [[John Guy (governor)|John Guy]] sets sail from [[Bristol]], with 39 other colonists, for [[Newfoundland (island)|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]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Palmer|first1=Alan|last2=Palmer |first2=Veronica|year=1992|title=The Chronology of British History|publisher=Century Ltd|___location=London|pages= 170–172|isbn=978-0-7126-5616-0}}</ref>
* [[July 27]] (July 17 O.S.) – [[Vasili IV of Russia|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 (1610)|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 [[Mary, mother of Jesus|the Blessed Virgin]]'') is first published, printed in Venice and dedicated to [[Pope Paul V]].
* [[September 2]] – The [[Siege of Jülich (1610)|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 [[Anaukpetlun|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 [[Władysław IV Vasa|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 of the Palatinate|Frederick V]], age 14, becomes the new [[Prince-Elector]] of the [[Electoral Palatinate|Rhineland Palatinate]], two days after the death of his father, [[Frederick IV, Elector Palatine|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]] – [[Crown of the Kingdom of Poland|Poland]], under the command of [[Hetman]] [[Stanisław Żółkiewski]], takes control of the [[Kremlin]] during the [[Polish–Russian War (1609–1618)|Polish–Russian War]].
* [[October 17]] – The coronation of [[Louis XIII of France]] takes place.<ref>{{cite book|author=Roland Mousnier|title=The Assassination of Henry IV: The Tyrannicide Problem and the Consolidation of the French Absolute Monarchy in the Early Seventeenth Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=slMmAQAAMAAJ|year=1973|publisher=Scribner|isbn=978-0-684-13357-7|page=12|language=en}}</ref>
* [[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 (German)|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 [[Addled Parliament|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 ]]. <ref> Gustav Henningsen, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=rxNYEAAAQBAJ&dq=Graciana+Xarra&pg=PA138 The Salazar Documents]'' (Brill, 2004) p. 138</ref>
* [[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 [[Juan de Mendoza, Marquis de la Hinojosa|Marquis de la Hinojosa]] accepts on behalf of [[Philip III of Spain|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.<ref> Manuel Lomas Cortés, ''El proceso de expulsión de los moriscos de España (1609–1614)''("The process of expulsion of the Moors of Spain") (Universities of Valencia, Granada & Zaragoza, 2011) p. 238</ref>
* [[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 [[sunspot]]s through a telescope. <ref>"Sunspot Positions and Areas from Observations by Thomas Harriot", by M. Vokhmyanin, et al., in ''Journal of Solar Physics'' (March 10, 2020)</ref>
* [[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 (martyr)|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 [[False Dmitry II|second False Dmitry]] is assassinated by a [[Qasim Khanate|Kasim]] [[Tatars|Tatar]] prince, [[Peter Arslanovich Urusov|Peter Urusov]]. After both Dmitry and Urosov have been drinking, Urusov shoots the Tsar Dmitry, then decapitates him. <ref> "Demetrius, Pseudo", Robert Nisbet Bain, in ''Encyclopædia Britannica'', 11th edition (Cambridge University Press, 1911) p. 984</ref>
=== 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 of England|Parliament]] as well as the king.<ref>{{cite book|author=Bernard Schwartz|title=A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oO0mAQAAMAAJ|year=1963|publisher=Macmillan|page=309}}</ref>
* The [[Manchu people|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]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Pope|first=Hugh|url=https://archive.org/stream/dublinreview147londuoft#page/96/mode/2up|title=The Origin of the Douay Bible|journal=[[Dublin Review (Catholic periodical)|The Dublin Review]]|volume=147|issue=294–295|date=July–October 1910}}</ref>
* [[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 [[History of Malta under the Order of Saint John|Malta]].
* [[Santa Fe, New Mexico]], capital of [[New Mexico]], is founded as capital of Kingdom of [[Santa Fe de Nuevo México|Nuevo México]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá|author2=Villagra|title=Historia de la Nueva México, 1610 : a critical and annotated Spanish/English edition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h1vPZP0YHFEC&pg=PR41|year=1992|publisher=UNM Press|isbn=978-0-8263-1392-8|pages=41}}</ref>
== Births ==
[[File:Alexander VIII 1.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Pope Alexander VIII]]]]
[[File:Portrait of Hendrick Martensz. Sorgh 001.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Hendrik Martenszoon Sorgh]]]]
[[File:SOJ Saint Gabriel-Lallemant.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Gabriel Lalemant]]]]
[[File:Jaqkob Kettler k.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Jacob Kettler]]]]
[[File:Frans Hals, Adriaen van Ostade, c. 1645 alt. 1648.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Adriaen van Ostade]]]]
===January–March===
* [[January 9]] – [[George Wilde (bishop)|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 (1610–1665)|Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria]], Electress of Bavaria (d. [[1665]])
* [[January 21]] – [[Elizabeth Fones]], American settler (d. [[1673]])
* [[January 26]] – [[Henry Hildyard (MP)|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 (MP)|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–June===
* [[April 22]] – [[Pope Alexander VIII]] (d. [[1691]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Michael J. Walsh|title=Lives of the Popes: Illustrated Biographies of Every Pope from St. Peter to the Present|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GnwsAQAAMAAJ|year=1998|publisher=Salamander|isbn=978-0-86101-960-1|page=220}}</ref>
* [[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 (settler)|Thomas Hales]], Connecticut settler (d. [[1679]])
===July–September===
* [[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 (regicide)|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 (died 1669)|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–December===
* [[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]])
===Date unknown===
* [[Dirck Rembrantsz van Nierop]], Dutch astronomer and cartographer (d. [[1682]])
* [[Maria Cunitz]], Silesian astronomer (d. [[1664]])
* [[Li Yu (author)|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]])
===Probable===
* [[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]])
== Deaths ==
[[File:Anna of the Veldenz Palatinate 1580 by unknown.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Princess Anna Maria of Sweden]]]]
[[File:Ricciportrait.jpg|thumb|110px|Servant of God [[Matteo Ricci]]]]
[[File:Musée national du Château de Pau - Portait d'Henri IV en Mars - Ambroise Dubois P 81 20 1.jpg|thumb|110px|King [[Henry IV of France]]]]
[[File:Glympton StMary ThomasTesdale alabaster.JPG|thumb|110px|[[Thomas Tesdale]]]]
[[File:Adam Elsheimer self portrait 01.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Adam Elsheimer]]]]
=== January–March ===
* [[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]] – [[Anna of Sweden (1545–1610)|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–June ===
* [[April 7]] – [[Hirata Masumune]], Japanese samurai (b. [[1566]])
* [[April 15]] – [[Robert Persons|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]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Henry IV {{!}} king of France {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-IV-king-of-France |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=12 December 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[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]])
=== July–September ===
[[File:Bild-Ottavio Leoni, Caravaggio.jpg|thumb|110px|[[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]] – [[Caravaggio|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–December ===
* [[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 (martyr)|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]])
== References ==
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