de Crayer, Flemish painter (d. 1669) December 15 – Queen Inmok, Korean royal consort (d. 1632) December 16 – John Selden, English jurist (d. 1654) December 25 – Margaret of Austria, Queen of Spain (d. 1611) December 27 – Philipp Julius, Duke of Pomerania (d. 1625) December 28 – Juan de Dicastillo, Spanish theologian (d. 1653) date unknown William Baffin, English explorer (d. 1622) Francis Beaumont, English dramatist (d. 1616) Antonio Cifra, Italian composer (d. 1629) Hu Zhengyan, Chinese artist, printmaker, calligrapher and publisher (d. 1674) Miyamoto Musashi, Japanese samurai, artist and philosopher (d. 1645) Mathieu Molé, French statesman (d. 1656) Chiara Varotari, Italian Baroque painter (d. 1663) Herman Wrangel, Swedish soldier and politician (d. 1643) Deaths January 4 – Tobias Stimmer, Swiss painter and drawer (b. 1539) January 11 – Bernal Díaz del Castillo, Spanish constiquador (b. 1496) January 15 – Martha Leijonhufvud, politically active Swedish noble (b. 1520) February 18 – Antonio Francesco Grazzini, Italian writer (b. 1503) February 19 – Anna de' Medici, Tuscan princess (b. 1569) February 27 – Yi I of Joseon, Korean Confucian scholar (b. 1536) March 10 – Thomas Norton, English politician and writer (b. 1532) March 18 – Tsar Ivan IV of Russia (b. 1530) May 10 – Luigi Cornaro, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1517) March 12 – Kasper Franck, German theologian (b. 1543) April 13 – Jan Borukowski, royal secretary of Poland (b. 1524) April 27 – Mikołaj "the Red" Radziwiłł, Polish magnate (b. 1512) May 18 – Ikeda Tsuneoki, Japanese daimyō and military commander (in battle) (b. 1536) May 25 – Prospero Spani, Italian sculptor (b. 1516) June 10 – François, Duke of Anjou (b. 1555) June 13 – János Zsámboky, Hungarian scholar (b. 1531) July 10 Francis Throckmorton, conspirator against Queen Elizabeth I of England (executed; b. 1554) William the Silent, Prince of Orange (assassinated; b. 1533) July 12 – Steven Borough, English explorer (b. 1525) July 14 – Balthasar Gérard, French assassin of William the Silent (executed; b. 1557) July 23 – John Day, English Protestant printer (b. 1522) August 12 – Carolus Sigonius, Italian humanist (b. 1524) August 22 – Jan Kochanowski, Polish writer (b. 1530) October – Colin Campbell, 6th Earl of Argyll, Scottish noble and politician (b. 1541) October 17 – Richard Gwyn, Welsh Catholic martyr, canonised November 3 – Charles Borromeo, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal, canonised (b. 1538) November 17 – Eric II, Duke