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=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 1]] &ndash; [[Hendrik Goltzius]], Dutch painter (b. [[1558]])
* [[January 6]] &ndash; [[Dorothea of Denmark, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg]] from 1561 to 1592 as the consort of Duke William (b. [[1546]])
* [[January 16]] &ndash; [[Wolf Dietrich Raitenau]], [[Prince-Archbishop]] of Salzburg (b. [[1559]])
* [[January 17]] &ndash; [[Faust Vrančić]], Croatian inventor (b. [[1551]])
* [[January 28]] &ndash; [[Karl II, Duke of Münsterberg-Oels]], Duke of Oels and Duke of Bernstadt (b. [[1545]])
* [[February 3]] &ndash; [[Prospero Alpini]], Italian physician and botanist from the Republic of Venice (b. [[1553]])
* [[February 8]] &ndash; [[Edward Talbot, 8th Earl of Shrewsbury]], English politician and earl (b. [[1561]])
* [[February 11]] &ndash; [[Giovanni Antonio Magini]], Italian mathematician, cartographer and astronomer (b. [[1555]])
* [[February 16]] &ndash; [[Kaspar Ulenberg]], German theologian (b. [[1549]])
* [[March 1]] &ndash; [[Edward Hoby]], English politician (b. [[1560]])
* [[March 20]] &ndash; [[François d'Aguilon]], Belgian Jesuit mathematician (b. [[1567]])
* [[March 21]] &ndash; [[Pocahontas]], Algonquian (Native American) princess (b. c. [[1596]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Philip Alexander Bruce|author2=William Glover Stanard|title=The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7gs1AAAAIAAJ|year=1958|publisher=Virginia Historical Society|page=272|language=en}}</ref>
* [[March 27]] &ndash; [[George II, Duke of Pomerania]], non-reigning Duke of Pomerania (b. [[1582]])