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== Births ==
[[File:PeterBulkley.jpg|right|thumb|110px|[[Peter Bulkley]]]]
[[File:Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt - Portrait of the Duke of Wallenstein.jpg|right|thumb|110px|Albrecht von Wallenstein]]
* [[January 8]] &ndash; [[Simon Episcopius]], Dutch theologian (d. [[1643]])
* [[January 12]] &ndash; [[Niccolò Alamanni]], Greek-born Roman antiquarian (d. [[1626]])
* [[January 31]] &ndash; [[Peter Bulkley]], English and later American Puritan (d. [[1659]])
* [[February 4]] &ndash; [[John Ley]], English priest (d. [[1662]])
* [[February 17]] &ndash; [[Johann Heinrich Alting]], German Lutheran theologian (d. [[1644]])
* [[February 23]] &ndash; [[Jean-Baptiste Morin (mathematician)|Jean-Baptiste Morin]], French mathematician (d. [[1656]])
* [[March 3]] &ndash; [[Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury]], English diplomat, poet, and philosopher (d. [[1648]])<ref>{{cite book|title=A History of English Philosophy| year=1994 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V5A4AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA35|publisher=CUP Archive|pages=35|language=en}}</ref>
* [[April 4]] &ndash; [[Franciscus Quaresmius]], Italian writer and orientalist (d. [[1650]])
* [[April 8]] &ndash; [[Nikolaus, Count Esterházy]], Hungarian noble (d. [[1645]])
* [[April 10]] &ndash; [[Hugo Grotius]], Dutch philosopher and writer (d. [[1645]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Christian Gellinek|title=Hugo Grotius|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nj0oAAAAMAAJ|year=1983|publisher=Twayne Publishers|isbn=978-0-8057-6525-0|page=1|language=en}}</ref>
* [[May 1]] &ndash; [[Orazio Grassi]], Italian Jesuit priest, architect and scientist (d. [[1654]])
* [[May 10]] &ndash; [[Fernando Afán de Ribera, duke of Alcalá de los Gazules]], Spanish diplomat (d. [[1637]])
* [[May 26]] &ndash; [[Susanna Hall]], Daughter of William Shakespeare (d. [[1649]])
* [[June 16]] &ndash; [[Axel Oxenstierna]], Lord High Chancellor of Sweden (d. [[1654]])
* [[June 20]] &ndash; [[Jacob De la Gardie]], Swedish soldier and statesman (d. [[1652]])
* [[June 22]] &ndash; [[Joachim Ernst, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach]] (1603–1625) (d. [[1625]])
* [[June 27]] &ndash; [[Christopher von Dohna]], German politician and scholar (d. [[1637]])
* [[July 2]] &ndash; [[Dodo zu Innhausen und Knyphausen|Dodo Knyphausen]], German soldier (d. [[1636]])
* [[July 9]] &ndash; [[John, Prince of Schleswig-Holstein]], Danish prince (d. [[1602]])
* [[July 20]] &ndash; [[Alban Roe]], English Benedictine martyr (d. [[1642]])
* [[July 22]] &ndash; [[Jacobus Trigland]], Dutch theologian (d. [[1654]])
* [[August 19]] &ndash; [[Daišan]], Manchu politician (d. [[1648]])
* [[August 21]]
** [[Denis Pétau]], French Jesuit theologian (d. [[1652]])
** [[Eleanor of Prussia]], Electress consort of Brandenburg (d. [[1607]])
* [[August 26]] &ndash; [[Adam, Count of Schwarzenberg]], German politician (d. [[1641]])
* [[August 31]] &ndash; [[Richard Harrison (Royalist)|Richard Harrison]], English politician (d. [[1655]])
* [[September 23]] &ndash; [[Christian II, Elector of Saxony]] from 1591 to 1611 (d. [[1611]])
* [[September 24]] &ndash; [[Albrecht von Wallenstein]], Austrian general (d. [[1634]])
* [[September 29]] &ndash; [[John VIII, Count of Nassau-Siegen]] (1623–1638) (d. [[1638]])
* September &ndash; [[Girolamo Frescobaldi]], Italian composer (d. [[1643]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Sandy Feldstein|title=Alfred's Pocket Dictionary of Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tL_uE7ASj-MC&pg=PA135|year=1995|publisher=Alfred Music|isbn=978-1-4574-2215-7|pages=135|language=en}}</ref>
* [[October 22]] &ndash; [[Laurens Reael]], Dutch admiral (d. [[1637]])
* [[November 10]] &ndash; [[Anthony Günther, Count of Oldenburg]] (d. [[1667]])
* [[November 15]] &ndash; [[Théophile Raynaud]], French theologian (d. [[1663]])
* [[November 17]] &ndash; [[Archduke Maximilian Ernest of Austria]], Austrian archduke (d. [[1616]])
* [[November 24]] &ndash; [[Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar]], Spanish poet (d. [[1641]])
* [[December 25]] &ndash; [[Orlando Gibbons]], English composer (d. [[1625]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The Musical Antiquary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hL8JAQAAMAAJ|year=1968|publisher=Gregg International Publishers|page=62|language=en}}</ref>
* ''date unknown''
** [[Hendrick Jacobszoon Lucifer]], Dutch pirate and buccaneer (d. [[1627]])
** [[John Beaumont (poet)|John Beaumont]], English poet (d. [[1627]])
** [[House of Elzevir|Bonaventura Elzevir]], Dutch printer (d. [[1652]])
** [[Stanisław Lubomirski (1583–1649)|Stanisław Lubomirski]], Polish nobleman (d. [[1649]])
** [[Philip Massinger]], English dramatist (d. [[1640]])
** [[Hayashi Razan]], Japanese neo-Confucianist scholar (d. [[1657]])
* ''probable''
** [[Alexander Henderson (theologian)|Alexander Henderson]], Scottish theologian (d. [[1646]])
** [[Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba|Nzinga]], warrior sovereign queen of Ndongo and Matamba (d. [[1663]])
** [[Aurelian Townshend]], English poet (d. [[1643]])