(d. 1658) Kösem Sultan (d. 1651) Mícheál Ó Cléirigh, Irish chronicler (d. 1643) Marie Vernier, French actress (d. 1627) Caterina Assandra, Italian composer (died c. 1618) Magdalena Andersdotter, Norwegian-Faroese shipowner (d. 1650) Teofila Chmielecka, Polish military role model (d. 1650) Marie Fouquet, French medical writer and philanthropist (d. 1681) Deaths January 7 – Jakob Andreae, German theologian (b. 1528) January 20 – Giambattista Benedetti, Italian mathematician and physicist (b. 1530) February 1 – Lawrence Humphrey, president of Magdalen College, Oxford (b. 1527) February 2 – Catherine of Ricci, Catholic prioress and saint (b. 1522) February 4 – Gioseffo Zarlino, Italian music theorist and composer (b. 1517) February 12 François Hotman, French Protestant lawyer and writer (b. 1524) Blanche Parry, personal attendant to Elizabeth I of England (b. c. 1508) February 18 – Asahi no kata, Japanese lady, Toyotomi Hideyoshi's half-sister (b. 1543) February 19 – Philipp IV, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (b. 1514) February 21 – Ambrose Dudley, 3rd Earl of Warwick, English nobleman and general (b. 1528) March 4 – Duchess Hedwig of Württemberg, by marriage countess of Hesse-Marburg (b. 1547) April 2 – Elisabeth of Saxony, Countess Palatine of Simmern (b. 1552) April 6 – Francis Walsingham, English spymaster (b. 1530) May 9 – Charles de Bourbon French cardinal and pretender to the throne (b. 1523) June 28 – Hori Hidemasa, Japanese warlord (b. 1553) June 30 – Maha Thammaracha (b. 1509) July 10 – Charles II, Archduke of Austria, regent of Inner Austria (b. 1540) July 21 – Sophie of Württemberg, German noble (b. 1563) August 10 Hōjō Ujimasa, Japanese warlord (b. 1538) Hōjō Ujiteru, Japanese warlord (b. 1540？) August 17 – James III, Margrave of Baden-Hachberg (b. 1562) August 27 – Pope Sixtus V (b. 1521) September 10 – Archduchess Magdalena of Austria, Member of the House of Habsburg (b. 1532) September 13 – Pedro Téllez-Girón, 1st Duke of Osuna, Spanish duke (b. 1537) September 20 – Lodovico Agostini, Italian composer (b. 1534) September 27 – Pope Urban VII (b. 1521) October 4 – Jacques Cujas, French legal expert (b. 1522) October 12 – Kanō Eitoku, Japanese painter (b. 1543) October 16 – Archduchess Anna of Austria, Duchess of Bavaria (b. 1528) October 18 – Philip, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (b. 1570) October 23 – Bernardino de Sahagún, Franciscan missionary (b. 1499) October 29 – Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert, Dutch politician and theologian (b. 1522) November 18 – George