Editing 1616 (section)

== Deaths ==
[[File:Charles DArenberg.jpg|110px|thumbnail|right|[[Charles de Ligne, 2nd Prince of Arenberg|Charles de Ligne]]]]
[[File:William Shakespeare by John Taylor, edited.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[William Shakespeare]]]]
[[File:Cervantes Jáuregui.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Miguel de Cervantes]]]]
[[File:Tokugawa Ieyasu2.JPG|thumb|right|110px|[[Tokugawa Ieyasu]]]]
[[File:Jacob Le Maire from Antonio de Herrera India Occidentales.png|110px|thumbnail|right|[[Jacob Le Maire]]]]

=== January–March ===
* [[January 5]] – [[Simeon Bekbulatovich]], khan of the Qasim Tatars, Grand Duke of Muscovy and Tver
* [[January 6]] – [[Philip Henslowe]], English theatre manager (b. [[1550]])
* [[January 18]] – [[Charles de Ligne, 2nd Prince of Arenberg]], Dutch noble (b. [[1550]])
* [[February 12]] – [[Anna of Nassau-Dillenburg (1541–1616)|Anna of Nassau-Dillenburg]], Countess consort of Nassau-Weilburg (b. [[1541]])
* [[February 13]] – [[Anders Sørensen Vedel]], Danish priest and historian (b. [[1542]])
* [[February 15]] – [[George Carey (c. 1541–1616)|George Carey]], English politician (b. [[1541]])
* [[February 18]] – [[Archduke Maximilian Ernest of Austria]], Austrian archduke (b. [[1583]])
* [[February 28]]
** [[Mikołaj Krzysztof "the Orphan" Radziwiłł]], Polish-Lithuanian noble (szlachcic) (b. [[1549]])
** [[Vincent Skinner]], English Member of Parliament (b. [[1543]])
* [[March 3]] – [[Matthias de l'Obel]], physician of James I of England  (b. [[1538]])
* [[March 6]] – [[Francis Beaumont]], dramatist in the English Renaissance theatre (b. [[1584]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Charles Wells Moulton|title=The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sAkuAQAAIAAJ|year=1959|publisher=P. Smith|isbn=978-0-8446-7157-4|page=586}}</ref>
* [[March 8]]
** [[Maria Anna of Bavaria (1574–1616)|Maria Anna of Bavaria]], daughter of William V, Duke of Bavaria and Renata von Lothringen (b. [[1574]])
** [[Giulio Cesare Casseri]], Italian anatomist (b. [[1552]])
* [[March 19]] – [[Johannes Fabricius]], Frisian/German astronomer (b. [[1587]])
* [[March 21]] – [[Giacomo Castelvetro]], Italian writer (b. [[1546]])
* [[March 27]] – [[George Wylde I]], English lawyer and politician (b. [[1550]])
* [[March 31]] – [[John Adolf, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp]] (b. [[1575]])

=== April–June ===
* [[April 19]] – [[Juan de Silva]], Spanish military commander and governor of the Philippines
* [[April 22]] – [[Miguel de Cervantes]], Spanish author (b. [[1547]])
* [[April 23]]
** (O.S., Tuesday) – [[William Shakespeare]], English playwright and poet (b. [[1564]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Sunil Kumar Sarker|title=Shakespeare's Sonnets|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BeKrQAYeO_UC&pg=PA10|year=1998|publisher=Atlantic Publishers & Dist|isbn=978-81-7156-725-6|pages=10|language=en}}</ref>
** (Inca date unknown) [[Inca Garcilaso de la Vega]], Peruvian author (b. [[1539]])
* [[April 27]] – [[Francesco Barbaro (patriarch of Aquileia)|Francesco Barbaro]], Italian diplomat (b. [[1546]])
* [[May 4]] – [[Magdalene of Brandenburg]], Landgravine consort of Hesse-Darmstadt (1598–1616) (b. [[1582]])
* [[May 8]] – [[Gilbert Talbot, 7th Earl of Shrewsbury]], English politician and earl (b. [[1552]])
* [[May 24]] – [[Margaret Clifford, Countess of Cumberland]], British noble (b. [[1560]])
* [[May 30]] – [[Thomas Parry (ambassador)|Thomas Parry]], English politician (b. [[1541]])
* [[June 1]] – [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]], Japanese shōgun (b. [[1543]])
* [[June 4]] – [[Adam Hieronim Sieniawski (1576–1616)|Adam Hieronim Sieniawski]], Polish–Lithuanian noble (b. c. [[1576]])
* [[June 9]] – [[Cornelis Schuyt]], Dutch organist and composer (b. [[1557]])
* [[June 18]] – [[Thomas Bilson]], English bishop (b. [[1547]])
* [[June 19]] – [[Henry Robinson (bishop)|Henry Robinson]], English bishop (b. [[1553]])

=== July–September ===
* [[July 2]] – [[Bernardino Realino]], Italian Jesuit (b. [[1530]])
* [[July 7]]
** [[Charles Philippe de Rodoan]], third bishop of Middelburg and the fourth bishop of Bruges (b. [[1552]])
** [[Anna of Württemberg]], German princess (b. [[1561]])
* [[July 20]]
** [[Honda Masanobu]], Japanese commander and ''[[daimyō]]'' (b. [[1538]])
** [[Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone]], Irish soldier (b. [[1540]])<ref name="O'Donnell1915"/>
* [[July 25]] – [[Andreas Libavius]], German physician and chemist (b. [[1555]])
* [[July 29]] – [[Tang Xianzu]], Chinese playwright and poet (b. [[1550]])
* [[July 31]] – [[Roger Wilbraham]], Solicitor-General for Ireland (b. [[1553]])
* [[August 3]] – [[Hans Meinhard von Schönberg]], German military commander (b. [[1582]])
* [[August 7]]
** [[Scipione Gentili]], Italian law professor and legal writer (b. [[1563]])
** [[Vincenzo Scamozzi]], Italian architect (b. [[1548]])
* [[August 8]]
** [[Cornelis Ketel]], Dutch painter (b. [[1548]])
** [[Henry Lennard, 12th Baron Dacre]], English baron and politician (b. [[1570]])
* [[August 31]] – [[Henry Poole (died 1616)|Henry Poole]], English politician (b. [[1541]])
* [[September 24]]
** [[Henry Baynton (died 1616)|Henry Baynton]], English Member of Parliament (b. [[1571]])
** [[John Scott (died 1616)|John Scott]], English politician (b. [[1570]])
* [[September 29]] – [[Henry Clinton, 2nd Earl of Lincoln]], English politician (b. [[1539]])

=== October–December ===
* [[October 10]] – [[Countess Maria of Nassau (1556–1616)|Countess Maria of Nassau]] (b. [[1556]])
* [[October 11]] – [[Aleksander Józef Lisowski]], Polish noble (szlachcic) (b. [[1580]])
* [[October 17]] – [[John Pitts (Catholic scholar)|John Pitts]], Catholic scholar and writer (b. [[1560]])
* [[October 21]] – [[Sakazaki Naomori]], Japanese ''[[daimyō]]'' (b. [[1563]])
* [[October 23]] – [[Leonhard Hutter]], German theologian (b. [[1563]])
* [[October 27]] – [[Johannes Praetorius]], German astronomer and mathematician (b. [[1537]])
* [[November 3]] – [[Agnes Hedwig of Anhalt]], Abbess of Gernrode, Electress of Saxony, Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Sønderborg-Plön (b. [[1573]])
* [[November 8]] – [[Robert Dormer, 1st Baron Dormer]], English politician (b. [[1551]])
* [[November 14]] – [[William Harris (Tudor person)|William Harris]], English knight (b. [[1556]])
* [[November 20]] – [[Matsumae Yoshihiro]], Japanese daimyo of Ezochi (Hokkaidō) (b. [[1548]])
* [[December 6]] – [[Ahmad Ibn al-Qadi]], Moroccan writer, judge and mathematician (b. [[1552]])
* [[November 23]] – [[Richard Hakluyt]], English author, editor and translator (b. [[1553]])
* [[December 7]] – [[Guillaume Fouquet de la Varenne]], French chef (b. [[1560]])
* [[December 22]] – [[Jacob Le Maire]], Dutch mariner (b. [[1585]])
* [[December 24]] – [[György Thurzó]], Palatine of Hungary (b. [[1567]])
* [[December 31]] – [[Jan Szczęsny Herburt]], Polish political writer (b. [[1567]])

===Date unknown===
* [[Shimozuma Chūkō]], Japanese monk of the Hongan-ji (b. [[1551]])
* [[Meir Lublin]], Polish rabbi (b. [[1558]])

===Probable===
* [[Hendrick Christiaensen]], Dutch explorer
* [[Krzysztof Klabon]], Polish Renaissance composer (b. [[1550]])
* [[Alexander Whitaker]], Virginia Colony religious leader (b. [[1585]])