(d. 1605) Ottavio Rinuccini, Italian composer (d. 1621) February 15 Rascas de Bagarris, French scholar (d. 1620) Maeda Toshinaga, Japanese daimyō (noble) (d. 1614) March 27 – Jacob Gretser, German Jesuit writer (d. 1625) April or May – Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Dutch composer (d. 1621) April 21 – Valerius Herberger, German theologian (d. 1627) April 24 – Xu Guangqi, Ming Dynasty Chinese politician, agronomist, astronomer, mathematician and lay Catholic leader (d. 1633) April 25 – Friedrich Wilhelm I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, German noble (d. 1602) May 6 – Pietro Bernini, Italian sculptor (d. 1629) May 26 – James III, Margrave of Baden-Hachberg (d. 1590) May 28 – John William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg (d. 1609) June 24 – Duke François de Joyeuse, French churchman and politician (d. 1615) June 26 – Anne of Ostfriesland, German noble, Electress Palatine (d. 1621) July 25 – Katō Kiyomasa, Japanese samurai (d. 1611) August 17 (bapt.) – Hans Leo Hassler, German composer (d. 1612) August 19 – Charles II de Bourbon-Vendôme, French cardinal (d. 1594) September 1 – George, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg (1607-1620) and (1620-1623) (d. 1623) September 21 – Vincenzo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua and Montferrat (1587-1612) (d. 1612) September 24 – Ercole, Lord of Monaco, Monegasque noble (d. 1604) October 4 – Christian Sørensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer (d. 1647) October 19 – George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1633) November 25 – Lope de Vega, Spanish poet and dramatist (d. 1635) December 10 – Roger de Saint-Lary de Termes, French noble (d. 1646) December 14 – Sir Lionel Tollemache, 1st Baronet, English baronet (d. 1621) December 18 – Philipp Dulichius, German composer (d. 1631) date unknown Isabella Andreini, Italian actress (d. 1604) John Bull, English composer (d. 1628) Henry Constable, English poet (d. 1613) Samuel Daniel, English poet and historian (d. 1619) Francis Godwin, English writer and bishop (d. 1633) George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly, Scottish noble (d. 1636) Natsuka Masaie, Japanese daimyō (noble) (d. 1600) Paulo Miki, Japanese Catholic saint and martyr (d. 1597) Richard Neile, English bishop (d. 1640) Henry Spelman, English antiquary (d. 1641) Cornelis van Haarlem, Dutch painter (d. 1638) Deaths January – Prince Ilie II Rareş of Moldavia (b. 1531) January 25 – Charles Wriothesley, English officer of arms (b. 1508) February 3 – Georg Giese, German merchant (b. 1497) May 4 – Lelio Sozzini, Italian Protestant theologian (b. 1525) July 1 – Wilhelm IV of Eberstein,