Editing 1600 (section)

=== January–March ===
* [[January 9]] – [[John Spencer (died 1600)|John Spencer]], English landowner and politician (b. [[1549]])
* [[January 21]] – [[Jerzy Radziwiłł (1556–1600)|Jerzy Radziwiłł]], Polish–Lithuanian nobleman (szlachcic) from the Radziwiłł family (b. [[1556]])
* [[February 9]] – [[John Frederick, Duke of Pomerania]], Protestant Bishop of Cammin (1567–1574) and ruling Duke of Pomerania (1569–1600) (b. [[1542]])
* [[February 15]] – [[José de Acosta]], Spanish Jesuit missionary and naturalist (b. [[1540]])
* [[February 17]] – [[Giordano Bruno]], Italian philosopher (burned at the stake) (b. [[1548]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Hans Blumenberg|title=The Legitimacy of the Modern Age|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pmKWuUz4OTgC&pg=PA549|year=1985|publisher=MIT Press|isbn=978-0-262-52105-5|pages=549}}</ref>
* [[February 25]] – [[Sebastian de Aparicio]], Spanish colonial industrialist, [[Roman Catholic]] priest and blessed in Mexico (b. [[1502]])
* [[February 29]] – [[Caspar Hennenberger]], German historian and cartographe (b. [[1529]])
* [[March 6]] – [[Johann Major]], German poet and theologian (b. [[1533]])
* [[March 20]] – [[Gustaf Banér]], Swedish noble (b. [[1547]])
* [[April 1]] – [[Esperanza Malchi]], Ottoman businessperson
* April – [[Thomas Deloney]], English writer (b. [[1543]])