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[[File:Cecora 1620 111.JPG|thumb|300px|[[October 7]]: [[Battle of Ţuţora (1620)|Polish Hetman Żółkiewski killed at Battle of Cecora]].]]
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== Events ==
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[[File:Schlacht am Weißen Berg C-K 063.jpg|thumb|[[November 8]]: The [[Battle of White Mountain]].]]
[[File:Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor, by William Halsall.jpg|thumb| [[November 21]]: The [[Mayflower]] arrives at [[Cape Cod]].]]

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 7]] &ndash; [[Ben Jonson]]'s play ''News from the New World Discovered in the Moon'' is given its first performance, a presentation to King [[James I of England]]. In addition to dialogue about actual observations made by telescope of the Moon, the play includes a fanciful discussion of a lunar civilization a dance by the "Volatees", the lunar race. <ref>Julie Sanders, ''Ben Jonson's Theatrical Republics'' (Palgrave Macmillan, 1998)</ref>
* [[January 22]] &ndash; In France, [[Charles d'Albert, duc de Luynes]], and his wife, the Duchess [[Marie de Rohan]], sign a marriage contract on behalf of their one-year-old daughter to be engaged to the year-old son of [[Charles, Duke of Guise]]. <ref>Sharon Kettering, ''Power and Reputation at the Court of Louis XIII: The Career of Charles d'Albert, duc de Luynes (1578–1621)'' (Manchester University Press, 2008) pp. 91–92</ref>
* [[January 26]] &ndash; [[Karan Singh II]] becomes the new ruler of the Kingdom of [[Mewar]] (in the modern-day state of [[Rajasthan]] in [[India]]) upon the death of his father, the Maharana [[Amar Singh I]].
* [[February 4]] &ndash; Prince [[Bethlen Gabor]] secures a peace treaty with [[Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor]].
* [[March 22]] &ndash; King [[Karma Phuntsok Namgyal]] of [[Tibet]] dies of smallpox after a reign of less than two years, after Ngawang Namgyal of Bhutan casts a tantric spell over him. <ref>Tsepon W.D. Shakabpa, ''One Hundred Thousand Moons'' (Leiden 2010) p. 333</ref>
* [[March 24]] &ndash; English sailor [[Owen Fitzpen]] is captured by Turkish pirates while on a trading voyage in the Mediterranean Sea and sold into slavery. He remains a slave in North Africa for seven years until he and 10 other slaves are able to take over a Turkish ship and sail back to Europe.

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 1]] &ndash; [[Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor|Ferdinand II]], Holy Roman Emperor and former King of Bohemia, sends a two-month ultimatum directing [[Frederick V of the Palatinate|King Frederick of Bohemia]] (who has usurped the throne in the modern-day Czech Republic) to leave [[Kingdom of Bohemia|Bohemia]] by June 1. Frederick refuses to depart his capital at [[Prague]]. 
* [[April 7]] &ndash; The [[1620 Robben Island earthquake|earliest recorded earthquake in South Africa]] occurs at [[Robben Island]].
* [[April 20]] &ndash; [[Mian Shahul Mouhammed Kalhoro]] begins his reign at [[Karachi]] as the king of [[Sindh]], in modern-day [[Pakistan]], and rules until 1657. 
* [[May 17]] &ndash; The first [[merry-go-round]] is seen at a fair in Philippapolis, [[Turkey]].
* [[June 3]] &ndash; The oldest stone church in French North America, [[Notre-Dame-des-Anges, Quebec|Notre-Dame-des-Anges]], is begun at [[Quebec City]] in modern-day Canada.

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 3]]
** Under the terms of the [[Treaty of Ulm (1620)|Treaty of Ulm]], the Protestant Union declares neutrality and ceases to support [[Frederick V of Bohemia]].
** Captain [[Andrew Shilling]], on behalf of the English [[Honourable East India Company]], lays claim to [[Table Bay]] in [[Africa]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ntsyoxWIB44C&q=east+india+company+1620+table+mountain|title=Cape Town &ndash; the Making of a City: an Illustrated Social History|first=Nigel|last=Worden|author2=Van Heyningen, Elizabeth|author3=Bickford-Smith, Vivian|year=1998|publisher=Uitgeverij Verloren |isbn=9065501614|access-date=2007-11-22}}</ref>
* [[July 25]] (July 15 [[Old Style and New Style dates|OS]]) &ndash; The armed merchant ship ''[[Mayflower]]'' embarks about 65 emigrants for New England at or near her home port of [[Rotherhithe]] on the Thames east of London; about July 29 (July 19 OS) she anchors in [[Southampton Water]].<ref name=Ames>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/mayflowerherlogj00ames|title=The ''May-Flower'' and Her Log|first=Azel|last=Ames|location=Boston|publisher=Houghton Mifflin|year=1901|access-date=2019-06-30}}</ref>
* [[August 1]] (July 22 [[Old Style and New Style dates|OS]]) &ndash; The ship ''[[Speedwell (1577 ship)|Speedwell]]'' departs [[Delfshaven]] with English separatist [[Puritans]] from [[Leiden]] bound to rendezvous with the ''[[Mayflower]]''; on August 5 (July 26 OS) she anchors in Southampton Water.<ref name=Ames/>
* [[August 15]] (probable date; August 5 [[Old Style and New Style dates|OS]]) &ndash; ''[[Mayflower]]'' and ''[[Speedwell (1577 ship)|Speedwell]]'' depart together from Southampton,<ref name=Ames/> but are forced to put back into [[Dartmouth, Devon]], for repairs to a leak in the latter ship on August 22 or 23 (August 12 or 13 OS).
* [[August 7]]
** The mother of astronomer [[Johannes Kepler]] is arrested for [[witchcraft]].
** In a battle at [[Les Ponts-de-Cé]] in France, [[Louis XIII of France|King Louis XIII]] defeats troops led by his mother, [[Marie de' Medici]].<ref>{{cite book|title=National History of France|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lm4TAQAAIAAJ|year=1967|publisher=AMS Press|page=22|language=en}}</ref>
* [[September 2]] (August 23 [[Old Style and New Style dates|OS]]) &ndash; ''[[Mayflower]]'' and ''[[Speedwell (1577 ship)|Speedwell]]'' depart together from Dartmouth; they are well out into the Atlantic when the ''Speedwell'' is again found to be leaking.<ref name=Ames/>
* [[September 7]] (August 28 [[Old Style and New Style dates|OS]])
** ''Mayflower'' and ''[[Speedwell (1577 ship)|Speedwell]]'' return again to England, anchoring at [[Plymouth]]; the  latter ship is given up as a participant in the voyage and on September 12 (September 2 OS) departs for London, most of her passengers and stores having been transferred to the ''Mayflower''.<ref name=Ames/>
** The Finnish town of [[Kokkola]] ({{langx|sv|Karleby}}) is founded by King [[Gustavus Adolphus|Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden]].<ref>[https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-10956854 YLE: Kokkolan perustajasta puuveistos Suntin varteen] (in Finnish)</ref><ref>[https://www.kokkola.fi/kokkolan-kaupunki/tietoa-kokkolasta/historia/ Historia - Kokkola] (in Finnish)</ref>
* [[September 16]] (September 6 [[Old Style and New Style dates|OS]]) &ndash; ''[[Mayflower]]'' departs from [[Plymouth]] in [[Kingdom of England|England]] on her third attempt to cross the Atlantic.<ref name="Cassell's Chronology">{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|url=https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will|url-access=registration|location=London|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8}}</ref> The [[Pilgrim (Plymouth Colony)|Pilgrims]] on board comprise 41 "saints" (English separatists largely from Holland), 40 "strangers" (largely secular planters from London), 23 servants and hired workers, together with c. 30 crew.
* [[September 17]]&ndash;[[October 7]] &ndash; [[Battle of Cecora (1620)|Battle of Cecora]]: The [[Ottoman Empire]] defeats [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]]–[[Moldavia]]n troops.

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 6]] &ndash; Battle of Amedamit in [[Gojjam]], [[Ethiopia]]: The [[Roman Catholicism in Ethiopia|Roman Catholic]] [[Ras (title)|Ras]] Sela Kristos, half-brother of Emperor [[Susenyos I|Susenyos]], crushes a group of rebels, who are opposed to Susenyos' pro-Catholic beliefs.
* [[November 3]] &ndash; The Great Patent is granted to [[Plymouth Colony]].
* [[November 8]] &ndash; [[Thirty Years' War]]: [[Battle of White Mountain]] &ndash; Catholic Habsburg forces are victorious over Bohemian rebels two hours from [[Prague]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Pierre Crabitès|title=Beneš, Statesman of Central Europe|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RLtnAAAAMAAJ|year=1936|publisher=Coward-McCann, Incorporated|page=7|language=en}}</ref>
* [[November 21]] (November 11 [[Old Style and New Style dates|OS]]) &ndash; The ''[[Mayflower]]'' arrives inside the tip of [[Cape Cod]] (named from the ''Concord'' voyage of [[1602]]), at what becomes known as [[Provincetown Harbor]], with the [[Pilgrims (Plymouth Colony)|Pilgrim]]s and [[Ancient planter|Planters]]; 41 [[Plymouth Colony]] [[List of Mayflower passengers|settlers]] sign the [[Mayflower Compact]], the first governing document of the colony, on board the ship.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.virtualjamestown.org/Timelines/Barbour%20Vol%201%201602-1620.html|title=Chronology of Early New England, 1602–1620|publisher=Virtual Jamestown|language=English|accessdate=26 December 2022}}</ref>
* [[November 25]] &ndash; The [[wedding of Gustav II Adolf and Maria Eleonora]] takes place in Sweden.
* [[December 21]] &ndash; [[Plymouth Colony]]: [[William Bradford (Plymouth Colony governor)|William Bradford]] and the ''[[Mayflower]]'' [[Pilgrim Fathers|Pilgrims]] land near what becomes known as [[Plymouth Rock]], in [[Plymouth, Massachusetts]].

=== Date unknown ===
* "A Dutch Ship, putting in this Year [of 1620, before June], sold 20 Negroes to the Colony [as [[slaves]]], which were the first of that Generation, that were ever brought to [[Virginia]]."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Stith |first1=William |title=The History of Virginia |date=1747 |publisher=Reprint Company |location=Virginia |page=Book 4, Page 182 |isbn=9780871520265 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aB4SAAAAYAAJ |access-date=2022-09-10}}</ref>
* A severe frost in England freezes the River [[Thames]]; 13 continuous days of snow blanket Scotland. On [[Eskdale (Scotland)|Eskdale Moor]], only 35 of a flock of 20,000 sheep survive.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Agricultural Records|last=Stratton|first=J. M.|publisher=John Baker|year=1969|isbn=0-212-97022-4}}</ref>
* [[Witch-hunt]]s begin in Scotland.{{Citation needed|date=September 2024}}
* [[History of submarines]]: [[Cornelis Drebbel]] demonstrates the first navigable [[submarine|undersea boat]] in the [[Thames]] in England.<ref>{{cite book |author=Davis, RH |title=Deep Diving and Submarine Operations |year=1955 |edition=6th |publisher=[[Siebe Gorman|Siebe Gorman & Company Ltd]] |location=Tolworth, Surbiton, Surrey |page=693 |author-link=Robert Davis (inventor) }}</ref><ref name=acott>{{cite journal |last=Acott |first=C. |title=A brief history of diving and decompression illness. |journal=South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society Journal |volume=29 |issue=2 |year=1999 |issn=0813-1988 |oclc=16986801 |url=http://archive.rubicon-foundation.org/6004 |access-date=2009-03-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110905152645/http://archive.rubicon-foundation.org/6004 |archive-date=2011-09-05 |url-status=usurped }}</ref>
* The modern [[violin]] is developed.{{Citation needed|date=September 2024}}
* [[Juan Pablo Bonet]], teacher of deaf children in the Spanish court, creates a sign alphabet.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Plann |first1=Susan |title=A Silent Minority: Deaf Education in Spain, 1550-1835 |date=1997 |publisher=University of California Press |location=Berkeley |url=http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft338nb1x6/}}</ref>
* [[Francis Bacon]] publishes the ''[[Novum Organum]]'' (beyond [[Aristotle]]'s ''[[Organon]]'') on logical thinking.{{Citation needed|date=September 2024}}<ref>1.

Donaldson I. Francis Bacon&amp;#x2019;s comments on the power of negative observations in his Novum Organum, first published in 1620. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 2016;109(12):459-460. doi:10.1177/0141076816675805</ref>
* ''[[A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies]]'' by [[Bartolomé de las Casas]] and ''Origin and progress of the disturbances in the Netherlands'' by [[Johannes Gysius]] are re-published in the Netherlands.<ref name="WDL515">{{cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/item/2006584207/|title=Mirror of the Cruel and Horrible Spanish Tyranny Perpetrated in the Netherlands, by the Tyrant, the Duke of Alba, and Other Commanders of King Philip II|website=World Digital Library|date=1620|access-date=2024-09-23}}</ref>
* Shōgun [[Tokugawa Hidetada]] begins restoring [[Osaka Castle]] in Japan. Its modern-day appearance dates from this remodeling.<ref name="archaeology">{{Cite web |title=Osaka Castle Wall Stone Quarry |url=https://archaeology.jp/sites/2011/ishikiri.htm |access-date=2025-03-07 |website=Archaeology.jp}}</ref>

===Ongoing===
* The [[Thirty Years' War]] ([[1618]]–[[1648]]) continues (principally on the territory of modern-day Germany).</onlyinclude>

== Births ==
[[File:10 Albert Cuyp, Schilder, 1620-1691.jpg|110px|thumbnail|right|[[Aelbert Cuyp]]]]
[[File:GreenWriting1.jpg|110px|thumbnail|right|[[Winston Churchill (Cavalier)|Winston Churchill]]]]
[[File:JohnEvelyn1687.jpg|110px|thumbnail|right|[[John Evelyn]]]]

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 1]] 
** [[William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker]] of England (d. [[1684]])
** [[Robert Morison]], Scottish botanist and taxonomist (d. [[1683]])
* [[January 5]] &ndash; [[Miklós Zrínyi]], Croatian military commander (d. [[1664]])
* [[January 9]] &ndash; [[Anton Günther I, Count of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen]] (d. [[1666]])
* [[January 17]] &ndash; [[Anton Janson]], Dutch type founder and printer (d. [[1687]])
* [[January 31]] &ndash; [[Prince Georg Friedrich of Waldeck]], Dutch general and German field marshal (d. [[1692]])
* [[February 1]] &ndash; [[Gustaf Bonde (1620–1667)|Gustaf Bonde]], Swedish politician (d. [[1667]])
* [[February 3]] &ndash; [[Sir James Clavering, 1st Baronet]], English landowner (d. [[1702]])
* [[February 5]] &ndash; [[Paul Barbette]], Dutch physician (d. [[1666]])
* [[February 13]] &ndash; [[Girolamo Casanata]], Italian cardinal (d. [[1700]])
* [[February 15]] &ndash; [[François Charpentier]], French archaeologist and man of letters (d. [[1702]])
* [[February 16]] &ndash; [[Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg]] (d. [[1688]])
* [[February 23]] &ndash; [[Francis Newport, 1st Earl of Bradford]], English politician (d. [[1708]])
* [[March 10]] &ndash; [[Johann Heinrich Hottinger]], Swiss philologist and theologian (d. [[1667]])
* [[March 13]] &ndash; [[Alexander Seton, 1st Viscount of Kingston]] (d. [[1691]])
* [[March 29]] &ndash; [[Edward Digges]], English barrister and colonist, Colonial Governor of Virginia (d. [[1674]])

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 4]] &ndash; [[Bernardino León de la Rocha]], Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Coria and of Tui (1669–1673) (d. [[1675]])
* [[April 15]] &ndash; [[Edward Villiers (1620–1689)|Edward Villiers]], English politician and military officer (d. [[1689]])
* [[April 17]] &ndash; [[Marguerite Bourgeoys]], French Catholic nun, founder of the Congregation of Notre Dame (d. [[1700]])
* [[April 18]] &ndash; [[Winston Churchill (1620–1688)]], English noble, soldier (d. [[1688]])
* [[April 21]] &ndash; [[Salvatore Castiglione]], Italian painter (d. [[1676]])
* [[April 24]] &ndash; [[John Graunt]], English demographer (d. [[1674]])
* [[May 3]] &ndash; [[Bogusław Radziwiłł]], Polish-Lithuanian noble (d. [[1669]])
* [[May 21]] &ndash; [[Krsto Zmajević]], Montenegrin-born Venetian merchant (d. [[1688]])
* [[May 23]] &ndash; [[Pieter Neefs the Younger]], Flemish painter (d. [[1675]])
* [[May 25]] &ndash; [[Warwick Mohun, 2nd Baron Mohun of Okehampton]], English Member of Parliament (d. [[1665]])
* [[June 6]] &ndash; [[Sir John Covert, 1st Baronet]], English politician (d. [[1679]])
* [[June 11]] &ndash; [[John Moore (Lord Mayor)]], Member of Parliament for the City of London (d. [[1702]])

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 20]] 
** [[Nikolaes Heinsius the Elder]], Dutch scholar (d. [[1681]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Hugh Chisholm|author2=James Louis Garvin|title=The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature & General Information|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KIVGAQAAIAAJ|year=1926|publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica Company, Limited|page=216|language=en}}</ref>
** [[Camillo Massimo]], Italian cardinal, patron of the arts (d. [[1677]])
* [[July 21]] &ndash; [[Jean Picard]], French astronomer and priest (d. [[1682]])
* [[July 31]] &ndash; [[Juan Ignacio de la Carrera Yturgoyen]], Chilean politician (d. [[1682]])
* [[August 6]] &ndash; [[William Hiseland]], English (later British) soldier, reputed supercentenarian (d. [[1732]])
* [[August 19]] &ndash; [[Johann Just Winckelmann]], German writer and historian (d. [[1699]])
* [[August 22]] &ndash; [[Alexander Rigby (died 1694)]], English politician (d. [[1694]])
* [[August 24]] &ndash; [[Thomas Stucley (MP)]], English politician (d. [[1663]])
* [[August 26]] &ndash; [[Ernst Bogislaw von Croÿ]], German Lutheran administrator (d. [[1684]])
* [[September 4]] &ndash; [[Ernest Gottlieb, Prince of Anhalt-Plötzkau]] (d. [[1654]])
* [[September 6]] &ndash; [[Isabella Leonarda]], Italian composer (d. [[1704]])
* [[September 18]] &ndash; [[Albert II, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach]], German prince (d. [[1667]])
* [[September 25]] &ndash; [[François Bernier]], French physician and traveller (d. [[1688]])
* [[September 29]] &ndash; [[John Louis of Elderen]], [[Bishop of Liege]] (d. [[1694]])

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 1]] &ndash; [[Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem]], Dutch Golden Age painter of pastoral landscapes (d. [[1683]])
* [[October 4]] &ndash; [[François-Henri Salomon de Virelade]], French lawyer (d. [[1670]])
* [[October 15]] &ndash; [[William Borlase (died 1665)]], English politician (d. [[1665]])
* [[October 16]] &ndash; [[Pierre Paul Puget]], French painter (d. [[1694]])
* [[October 20]] &ndash; [[Aelbert Cuyp]], Dutch painter (d. [[1691]])
* [[October 27]] &ndash; [[Philip Louis, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Wiesenburg]] (d. [[1689]])
* [[October 31]] &ndash; [[John Evelyn]], English diarist and writer (d. [[1706]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Beatrice Saunders|title=Portraits of Genius|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bmRKAAAAMAAJ|year=1959|publisher=J. Murray|isbn=978-0-7195-1215-5|page=27|language=en}}</ref>
* [[November 10]] 
** [[Ninon de l'Enclos]], French author (d. [[1705]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The Encyclopedia Americana|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s4RUAAAAMAAJ|year=2002|publisher=Grolier Incorporated|isbn=978-0-7172-0135-8|page=200|language=en}}</ref>
** [[Theodoor Boeyermans]], Flemish Baroque painter (d. [[1678]])
* {{circa}} [[November 20]] &ndash; [[Peregrine White]], first child born to English settlers at Plymouth Colony (d. [[1704]])
* [[December 17]] 
** [[Henri Charles de La Trémoille]], son of Henry de La Trémoille (d. [[1672]])
** [[Maurice of the Palatinate]], 4th son of [[Frederick V, Elector Palatine]] (d. [[1652]])
* [[December 18]] &ndash; [[Heinrich Roth]], German Jesuit missionary, pioneering Sanskrit scholar (d. [[1668]])
* [[December 23]] &ndash; [[Johann Jakob Wepfer]], Swiss pathologist (d. [[1695]])

*''probable'' &ndash; [[Ecaterina Cercheza]], princess consort of [[Moldavia]] (d. [[1666]])<ref>{{cite journal |last=Pavel |first=Lilia Zabolotnaia |date=2012 |title=The Story of the Courtship of Catherine 'the Circassian', the Second Wife of the Prince Vasile Lupu |url=http://atlas.usv.ro/www/codru_net/CC18/1/lilia.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://atlas.usv.ro/www/codru_net/CC18/1/lilia.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live |journal=Codrul Cosminului |volume=18 |issue=1 |pages=43–50 |access-date=29 April 2015}}</ref>

== Deaths ==
[[File:Raja Ravi Varma, Maharana Amar Singh - I.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Amar Singh I]]]]
[[File:Willem Lodewijk van Nassau 1560-1620.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[William Louis, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg]]]]
[[File:明神宗.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Wanli Emperor]]]]
[[File:Louisecoligny.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Louise de Coligny]]]]

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 20]] &ndash; [[John Croke]], English politician and judge (b. [[1553]])
* [[January 26]] &ndash; [[Amar Singh I]], ruler of Mewar (b. [[1559]])
* [[January 28]] &ndash; [[Archduchess Eleanor of Austria (1582–1620)|Archduchess Eleanor of Austria]] (b. [[1582]])
* [[February 15]] &ndash; [[James Archer (Jesuit)|James Archer]], Irish Jesuit; played a controversial role in the Nine Years' War (b. [[1550]])
* [[February 19]]
** [[Al-Mansur al-Qasim]], Imam of Yemen (b. [[1559]])
** [[Roemer Visscher]], Dutch writer (b. [[1547]])
* [[February 23]] &ndash; [[Nicholas Fuller (lawyer)|Nicholas Fuller]], English politician (b. [[1543]])
* [[March 1]] &ndash; [[Thomas Campion]], English poet and composer (b. [[1567]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Thomas Campion {{!}} English poet and musician |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Campion |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=20 April 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[March 5]] &ndash; [[Giovanni Francesco Sagredo]], Italian mathematician (b. [[1571]])
* [[March 17]] &ndash; [[John Sarkander|St. John Sarkander]], [[Moravia]]n priest (injuries caused by [[torture|torturing]]) (b. [[1576]])
* [[March 25]] &ndash; [[Johannes Nucius]], German composer (b. c. [[1556]])
* [[March 29]] &ndash; [[Hachisuka Yoshishige]], Japanese daimyō of the Edo period (b. [[1586]])

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 8]] &ndash; [[Angelo Rocca]], Italian humanist (b. [[1545]])
* [[April 23]] &ndash; [[Hayyim ben Joseph Vital]], Palestinian-born Kabbalist (b. [[1543]])
* [[April 14]] &ndash; [[Rascas de Bagarris]], French scholar (b. [[1562]])
* [[May 16]] &ndash; [[William Adams (sailor, born 1564)|William Adams]], English navigator and samurai (b. [[1564]])<ref>{{cite book|author=William Corr|title=Adams the Pilot: The Life and Times of Captain William Adams, 1564-1620|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qZ9Kwt_N2ocC&pg=PA166|year=1995|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-873410-44-8|pages=166|language=en}}</ref>
* [[May 30]] &ndash; [[Mathias Hovius]], Roman Catholic archbishop (b. [[1542]])
* [[June 17]] &ndash; [[Mikołaj Zebrzydowski]] (b. [[1553]])

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 13]] &ndash; [[William Louis, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg]] (b. [[1560]])
* [[August 2]] &ndash; [[Carolus Luython]], Belgian composer (b. [[1557]])
* [[August 14]] &ndash; [[Katherine Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon]], wife of Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon (b. [[1540]])
* [[August 18]] &ndash; [[Wanli Emperor]], of China (b. [[1563]])
* [[September 13]] &ndash; [[Wolfgang Hirschbach]], German legal scholar (b. [[1570]])
* [[September 26]] &ndash; [[Taichang Emperor]], fourteenth emperor of the Ming dynasty of China (b. [[1582]])
* September &ndash; [[Sidonia von Borcke]], German noble and alleged witch (b. [[1548]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Inachim|first1=Kyra|author-link=Kyra T. Inachin|title= Die Geschichte Pommerns |year=2008 |publisher=Hinstorff |location=Rostock |language=de |isbn=978-3-356-01044-2|chapter= Herrschaft der letzten Greifengeneration}}</ref>

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 7]] &ndash; [[Stanisław Żółkiewski]], Polish nobleman of the Lubicz coat of arms (b. [[1547]])
* [[November 6]] &ndash; [[Philip III, Margrave of Baden-Rodemachern]] (1588–1620) (b. [[1567]])
** [[William Butten]], [[Mayflower]] passenger (b. unknown)
* [[November 7]] &ndash; [[Robert Hesketh]], English politician (b. [[1560]])
* [[November 9]] &ndash; [[Louise de Coligny]], daughter of Gaspard II de Coligny; fourth and last spouse of William the Silent (b. [[1555]])
* [[November 11]] &ndash; [[Isaac and Josias Habrecht]], Swiss watchmaking brothers (b. [[1544]])
* [[November 27]] &ndash; [[Francis, Duke of Pomerania]]-Stettin, Bishop of Cammin (b. [[1577]])
* [[December 3]] &ndash; [[Janusz Radziwiłł (1579–1620)|Janusz Radziwiłł]], Polish noble (b. [[1579]])
* [[December 21]] &ndash; [[George Fleetwood (MP)|George Fleetwood]], English politician (b. [[1564]])

=== Date unknown ===
* [[Rose of Turaida]], legendary Latvian murder victim (b. [[1601]])
* [[John Flower (sheriff)|John Flower]], English politician (b. [[1535]])

=== Approximate date ===
* [[Brianda Pereira]], Azorean Portuguese heroine (b. [[1550]])
* [[Isabella Parasole]], Italian engraver (b. ca. [[1570]])

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