Editing 1616 (section)

===January–March===
* [[January 1]] – [[Nabeshima Naozumi]], Japanese ''[[daimyō]]'' (d. [[1669]])
* [[January 5]] – [[Alexander von Bournonville]], Flemish noble and general (d. [[1690]])
* [[January 13]] – [[Antoinette Bourignon]], French-Flemish mystic and adventurer (d. [[1680]])
* [[January 16]] – [[François de Vendôme, Duke of Beaufort]], French soldier (d. [[1669]])
* [[January 20]] – [[Jerzy Sebastian Lubomirski]], Polish noble (szlachcic) (d. [[1667]])
* [[January 27]] or [[January 28]] – [[Christen Aagaard]], Danish poet (d. [[1664]])
* [[February 1]] – [[Sophie Elisabeth of Brandenburg]], Duchess consort of Saxe-Altenburg (d. [[1650]])
* [[February 2]] – [[Sébastien Bourdon]], French painter and engraver (d. [[1671]])
* [[February 14]] – [[Marc Restout]], French painter (d. [[1684]])
* [[February 25]] – [[Isaack Luttichuys]], Dutch Golden Age painter (d. [[1673]])
* [[February 27]] – [[István Esterházy (1616–1641)|István Esterházy]], member of the wealthy Hungarian Esterházy family (d. [[1641]])
* [[February 28]]
** [[Kaspar Förster]], German singer and composer (d. [[1673]])
** [[Frederick of Hesse-Darmstadt]], German Catholic cardinal (d. [[1682]])
* [[March 1]] – [[Maurizio Cazzati]], Italian composer (d. [[1678]])
* [[March 9]] – [[Robert Giguère]], early pioneer in New France (d. [[1709]])
* [[March 13]] – [[Joseph Beaumont]], British academic and poet (d. [[1699]])
* [[March 16]] – [[Thomas Jervoise (died 1693)|Thomas Jervoise]], English politician (d. [[1693]])
* [[March 29]] – [[Johann Erasmus Kindermann]], German composer and organist (d. [[1655]])