August 19 – Pierre Vernier, French mathematician (d. 1637) September 4 – George Percy, English explorer (d. 1632) September 14 Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish writer (d. 1645) Robert Gordon of Straloch, Scottish cartographer (d. 1661) September 15 Charles Annibal Fabrot, French lawyer (d. 1659) Thomas Fanshawe, English politician (d. 1631) September 17 – Countess Charlotte Brabantina of Nassau, Belgian noble (d. 1631) September 24 – Elisabeth of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg, Duchess consort of Pomerania (d. 1653) October 8 – Gábor Esterházy (1580–1626), Hungarian noble (d. 1626) October 12 – Hortensio Félix Paravicino, Spanish preacher and poet from the noble house of Pallavicini (d. 1633) October 20 – Peter Crüger, German astronomer and mathematician (d. 1639) October 30 – Armand-Nompar de Caumont, duc de La Force, Marshal of France (d. 1675) November 9 – Johannes Narssius, Dutch physician and poet (d. 1637) December 1 – Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer (d. 1637) December 4 Samuel Argall, English adventurer and naval officer (d. 1626) Nabeshima Katsushige, Japanese daimyō (d. 1657) date unknown Philipp Clüver, German geographer and historian (d. 1623) Francesco Fontana, Italian lawyer and astronomer (d. 1656) Dirk Hartog, Dutch ship's captain and explorer (d. 1621) Jean Jannon, Swiss-born typefounder (d. 1658) Robert Killigrew, English courtier, politician, ambassador and knight (d. 1633) Willebrord Snellius, Dutch astronomer and mathematician (d. 1626) Raphael Sobiehrd-Mnishovsky, Bohemian lawyer and writer (d. 1644) Pierre Vernier, French mathematician and instrument inventor (d. 1637) Krzysztof Zbaraski, Polish nobleman (d. 1627) George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore, English politician and colonizer (d. 1623) probable William Brabazon, 1st Earl of Meath, English noble (d. 1651) Edward Fairfax, English translator (d. 1635) Frans Hals, Dutch painter (d. 1666) Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Leven, Scottish soldier (d. 1661) Benjamin, Duke of Soubise, French Huguenot leader (d. 1642) Adriana Basile, Italian composer (d. 1640) Deaths January 5 – Anna Sibylle of Hanau-Lichtenberg, German noblewoman (b. 1542) January 18 Antonio Scandello, Italian composer (b. 1517) Archangelo de' Bianchi, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1516) January 31 – King Henry of Portugal (b. 1512) February 2 – Bessho Nagaharu, Japanese retainer (b. 1558) February 24 – Henry FitzAlan, 19th Earl of Arundel, English nobleman (b. 1511) April 20 – Francesco Alciati, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1522) May 3 – Thomas Tusser, English poet and farmer (b. c. 1524) May 31 – Dorothea of Denmark, Electress Palatine, Princess of Denmark, Sweden and Norway (b. 1520) June 10 –