antiquarian (d. 1626) January 31 – Peter Bulkley, English and later American Puritan (d. 1659) February 4 – John Ley, English priest (d. 1662) February 17 – Johann Heinrich Alting, German Lutheran theologian (d. 1644) February 23 – Jean-Baptiste Morin, French mathematician (d. 1656) March 3 – Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, English diplomat, poet, and philosopher (d. 1648) April 4 – Franciscus Quaresmius, Italian writer and orientalist (d. 1650) April 8 – Nikolaus, Count Esterházy, Hungarian noble (d. 1645) April 10 – Hugo Grotius, Dutch philosopher and writer (d. 1645) May 1 – Orazio Grassi, Italian Jesuit priest, architect and scientist (d. 1654) May 10 – Fernando Afán de Ribera, duke of Alcalá de los Gazules, Spanish diplomat (d. 1637) May 26 – Susanna Hall, Daughter of William Shakespeare (d. 1649) June 16 – Axel Oxenstierna, Lord High Chancellor of Sweden (d. 1654) June 20 – Jacob De la Gardie, Swedish soldier and statesman (d. 1652) June 22 – Joachim Ernst, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1603–1625) (d. 1625) June 27 – Christopher von Dohna, German politician and scholar (d. 1637) July 2 – Dodo Knyphausen, German soldier (d. 1636) July 9 – John, Prince of Schleswig-Holstein, Danish prince (d. 1602) July 20 – Alban Roe, English Benedictine martyr (d. 1642) July 22 – Jacobus Trigland, Dutch theologian (d. 1654) August 19 – 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 – Adam, Count of Schwarzenberg, German politician (d. 1641) August 31 – Richard Harrison, English politician (d. 1655) September 23 – Christian II, Elector of Saxony from 1591 to 1611 (d. 1611) September 24 – Albrecht von Wallenstein, Austrian general (d. 1634) September 29 – John VIII, Count of Nassau-Siegen (1623–1638) (d. 1638) September – Girolamo Frescobaldi, Italian composer (d. 1643) October 22 – Laurens Reael, Dutch admiral (d. 1637) November 10 – Anthony Günther, Count of Oldenburg (d. 1667) November 15 – Théophile Raynaud, French theologian (d. 1663) November 17 – Archduke Maximilian Ernest of Austria, Austrian archduke (d. 1616) November 24 – Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar, Spanish poet (d. 1641) December 25 – Orlando Gibbons, English composer (d. 1625) date unknown Hendrick Jacobszoon Lucifer, Dutch pirate and buccaneer (d. 1627) John Beaumont, English poet (d. 1627) Bonaventura Elzevir, Dutch printer (d. 1652) Stanisław Lubomirski, Polish nobleman (d.