Editing 1598 (section)

== Births ==
[[File:Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp.jpg|110px|thumbnail|right|[[Maarten Tromp]]]]
[[File:Gian Lorenzo Bernini, self-portrait, c1623.jpg|110px|thumbnail|right|[[Gian Lorenzo Bernini]]]]

===January–March===
* [[January 23]] – [[François Mansart]], French architect (d. [[1666]])
* [[March 12]] – [[Guillaume Colletet]], French writer (d. [[1659]])
* [[March 13]] – [[Johannes Loccenius]], German historian (d. [[1677]])
* [[March 15]] – [[Redemptus of the Cross]], Portuguese Carmelite lay brother and martyr (d. [[1638]])
* [[March 25]]
** [[Ralph Corbie]], Irish Jesuit (d. [[1644]])
** [[Robert Trelawney]], English politician (d. [[1643]])
* [[March 26]] – [[Sir William Lewis, 1st Baronet]], English politician (d. [[1677]])

===April–June===
* [[April 9]] – [[Johann Crüger]], German composer of well-known hymns (d. [[1662]])
* [[April 11]] – [[William, Duke of Saxe-Weimar]], German nobleman (d. [[1662]])
* [[April 17]] – [[Giovanni Battista Riccioli]], Italian astronomer (d. [[1671]])
* [[April 23]] – [[Maarten Tromp]], officer and later admiral in the Dutch navy (d. [[1653]])
* [[April 28]] – [[Francis Leigh, 1st Earl of Chichester]], English politician (d. [[1653]])
* [[May 23]] – [[Claude Mellan]], French painter and engraver (d. [[1688]])
* [[June 4]] – [[Åke Henriksson Tott]], Swedish soldier and politician (d. [[1640]])
* [[June 19]] – [[Gilbert Sheldon]], Archbishop of Canterbury from 1663 until his death (d. [[1677]])

===July–September===
* [[July 6]] – [[Kirsten Munk]], Danish noble, spouse of King Christian IV of Denmark (d. [[1658]])
* [[July 29]] – [[Henricus Regius]], Dutch philosopher (d. [[1679]])
* [[July 31]] – [[Alessandro Algardi]], Italian high-Baroque sculptor active in Rome (d. [[1654]])
* [[August 7]] – [[Georg Stiernhielm]], Swedish civil servant (d. [[1672]])
* [[September 11]] – [[Imre Thurzó]], Hungarian noble (d. [[1621]])
* [[September 23]] – [[Eleonora Gonzaga (1598–1655)|Eleonora Gonzaga]], Holy Roman Empress, married to [[Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor]] (d. [[1655]])
* [[September 24]] – [[Giovanni Francesco Busenello]], Italian librettist (d. [[1659]])
* [[September 27]] – [[Robert Blake (admiral)|Robert Blake]], English admiral (d. [[1657]])

===October–December===
* [[October 14]] – [[Nicolas de Neufville de Villeroy]], Marshal of France (d. [[1685]])
* [[October 17]] – [[Jørgen Knudsen Urne]], Danish noble (d. [[1642]])
* [[October 19]] – [[Isaac Commelin]], Dutch historian (d. [[1676]])
* [[October 27]] – [[Lars Stigzelius]], Swedish Lutheran archbishop (d. [[1676]])
* [[November 3]] – [[Christian I, Count Palatine of Birkenfeld-Bischweiler]] (1600–1654) (d. [[1654]])
* [[November 4]] – [[Ernst Adalbert of Harrach]], Austrian Catholic cardinal (d. [[1667]])
* [[November 7]] – [[Francisco de Zurbarán]], Spanish painter (d. [[1664]])
* [[November 28]] – [[Hans Nansen]], Danish statesman (d. [[1667]])
* [[December 7]] – [[Gian Lorenzo Bernini]], Italian sculptor (d. [[1680]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Rudolf Wittkower|title=Gian Lorenzo Bernini: The Sculptor of the Roman Baroque|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CYZKAQAAIAAJ|year=1981|publisher=Cornell University Press|isbn=978-0-8014-1430-5|page=2|language=en}}</ref>
* [[December 20]] – [[Ottavio Farnese (1598–1643)|Ottavio Farnese]], Italian noble (d. [[1643]])
* [[December 22]] – [[Henri de La Trémoille]], French general and noble (d. [[1674]])
* [[December 24]] – [[Margaret Stuart (1598–1600)|Margaret Stuart]], Scottish princess (d. [[1600]])

===Date unknown===
* [[Bonaventura Cavalieri]], Italian mathematician (d. [[1647]])
* [[Marmaduke Langdale]], [[Cavalier|Royalist]] in the English Civil War (d. [[1661]])
* [[Baldassarre Longhena]], Venetian architect (d. [[1682]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Ronald Shaw-Kennedy|title=Venice Rediscovered|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1E0_D0tsEc8C&pg=PA23|year=1978|publisher=Associated University Presse|isbn=978-0-8453-1484-5|pages=23}}</ref>
* [[Jean Nicolet]], French explorer (d. [[1642]])
* [[William Strode]], English parliamentarian (d. [[1645]])<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Strode, William|volume=25|page=1040}}</ref>
* [[Guðríður Símonardóttir]], Icelandic woman known as a victim of [[the Turkish abductions]] (d. [[1682|1693]])
*''probable''
** [[Jean-Armand du Peyrer]], Comte de Tréville and French officer (d. [[1672]])
** [[Mary Bankes]], Royalist in the [[English Civil War]], defender of [[Corfe Castle]] (d. [[1661]])