Editing 1602 (section)

== Deaths ==
[[File:Ludvig Munk til Nørlund.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Ludvig Munk]] died [[8 April]]]]
[[File:Anna of Mecklenburg.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Anna of Mecklenburg]] died [[4 July]]]]
[[File:HedwigBrandBraunWolf.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Hedwig of Brandenburg, Duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel|Hedwig of Brandenburg]] died [[21 October]]]]
[[File:დავით პირველი.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[David I of Kakheti]] died [[21 October]]]]

=== January–March ===
* January – [[Claude Fauchet (historian)|Claude Fauchet]], French historian
* [[February 3]] – [[Paulus Melissus]], German composer (b. [[1539]])
* [[February 13]] – [[Alexander Nowell]], English clergyman (b. [[1507]])
* [[February 19]] – [[Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercœur]], French soldier (b. [[1558]])
* [[March 11]] – [[Emilio de' Cavalieri]], Italian composer (b. c. [[1550]])
* [[March 12]] – [[Philip IV, Count of Nassau-Weilburg]] and Nassau-Saarbrücken (1574–1602) (b. [[1542]])
* [[March 22]] – [[Agostino Carracci]], Italian painter and graphical artist (b. [[1557]])
* [[March 24]] – [[Ii Naomasa]], Japanese general (b. [[1561]])
* [[March 25]] – [[Joachim Frederick of Brieg]], Duke of Wołów (b. [[1550]])

=== April–June ===
* [[April 8]] – [[Ludvig Munk]], Governor-general of Norway (b. [[1537]])
* [[April 10]] – [[Amalia of Neuenahr]], German noble (b. [[1539]])
* [[April 20]] – [[Thomas Tichborne]], English martyr (b. [[1567]])
* [[April 26]] – [[Antonio Maria Salviati]], Italian Catholic cardinal (b. [[1537]])
* [[May 9]] – [[Giulio Antonio Santorio]], Italian Catholic cardinal (b. [[1532]])
* [[May 22]] – [[Renata of Lorraine]] (b. [[1544]])
* [[May 27]] – [[Robert Stuart, Duke of Kintyre and Lorne]], infant son of King James I/VI

=== July–September ===
* [[July 4]] – [[Anna of Mecklenburg]], Duchess consort of Courland (1566–1587) (b. [[1533]])
* [[July 7]] – [[Friedrich Wilhelm I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar]], German noble (b. [[1562]])
* [[July 31]] – [[Charles de Gontaut, 1st Duke of Biron]], French noble and military commander (b. 1562)
* [[August 12]] – [[Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak]], Mughal vizier and historian (b. [[1551]])
* [[August 23]] – [[Sebastiano Filippi|Bastianino]], Italian painter (b. c. [[1536]])
* [[September 14]] – [[Jean Passerat]], French writer (b. [[1534]])
* [[September 25]]
** [[Caspar Peucer]], German reformer (b. [[1525]])
** [[William Redman (bishop)|William Redman]], Bishop of Norwich (b. [[1541]])
* [[September 30]] – [[Catherine of Brandenburg-Küstrin]], daughter of Margrave John of Küstrin (b. [[1549]])

=== October–December ===
* [[October]] – [[Thomas Morley]], English composer (b. [[1557]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=David Mason Greene|author2=Constance Green|title=Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m3S7PIxe0mwC&pg=PA78|year=1985|publisher=Reproducing Piano Roll Fnd.|isbn=978-0-385-14278-6|pages=78|language=en}}</ref>
* [[October 1]] – [[Hernando de Cabezón]], Spanish composer and organist (b. [[1541]])
* [[October 7]] – [[Thomas Schweicker]], German artist (b. [[1540]])
* [[October 13]] – [[Franciscus Junius (the elder)|Franciscus Junius]], French theologian (b. [[1545]])
* [[October 20]] – [[Walter Leveson]], English Elizabethan Member of Parliament, Shropshire landowner (b. [[1550]])
* [[October 21]]
** [[Hedwig of Brandenburg, Duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel]], Duchess consort of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (b. [[1540]])
** King [[David I of Kakheti]] (b. [[1569]])
* [[October 28]] – [[John, Prince of Schleswig-Holstein]], youngest son of Frederick II of Denmark and Norway (b. [[1583]])
* [[October 30]] – [[Jean-Jacques Boissard]], French antiquary and Latin poet (b. [[1528]])<ref>{{cite EB1911|wstitle= Boissard, Jean Jacques |volume= 04 |page = 154 |quote=...he died on the 30th of October 1602 }}</ref>
* [[October 31]] – [[Dominic Collins]], Irish Jesuit lay brother and martyr (b. [[1566]])
* [[November 23]] – [[Agnes of Solms-Laubach]], Landgravine of Hesse-Kassel (b. [[1578]])
* [[November 29]] – [[Anthony Holborne]], English composer (b. c. [[1545]])
* [[December 1]] – [[Kobayakawa Hideaki]], Japanese samurai and warlord (b. [[1577]])
* [[December 29]] – [[Jacopo Corsi]], Italian composer (b. [[1561]])

=== Date unknown ===
* [[Epifani Olives i Terès]], Spanish politician
* [[Oda Ujiharu]], Japanese warlord (b. 1534)
* [[Valpuri Innamaa]], Finnish shipowner
* [[Daniel Tossanus]], French Reformed theologian (b. 1541)