Editing 1601 (section)

=== January–March ===
* [[January 11]] – [[Scipione Ammirato]], Italian historian (b. [[1531]])
* [[January 17]] – [[Christoffer Valkendorff]], Danish politician (b. [[1525]])
* [[January 19]] – [[Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke]], English statesman (b. [[1538]])
* [[January 29]] – [[Louise of Lorraine]], French queen consort (b. [[1553]])
* [[February 7]] – [[Martin Garzez]], Aragonese-born 53rd Grandmaster of the [[Knights Hospitaller]] (b. [[1526]])
* [[February 25]] – [[Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex]], English politician (b. [[1566]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Arthur F. Kinney|title=Titled Elizabethans: A Directory of Elizabethan State and Church Officers and Knights, with Peers of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1558-1603|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wAUdAAAAYAAJ|year=1973|publisher=Archon Books|isbn=978-0-208-01334-7|page=37|language=en}}</ref>
* [[February 27]] – [[Anne Line]], English Catholic martyr (b. c. [[1563]])
* [[March 2]] – [[Antonio del Rincón]], Mexican academic (b. [[1566]])
* [[March 13]] – [[Henry Cuffe]], English politician (b. [[1563]])