1649) Philip Massinger, English dramatist (d. 1640) Hayashi Razan, Japanese neo-Confucianist scholar (d. 1657) probable Alexander Henderson, Scottish theologian (d. 1646) Nzinga, warrior sovereign queen of Ndongo and Matamba (d. 1663) Aurelian Townshend, English poet (d. 1643) Deaths January 7 – Maria of Saxony, Duchess of Pomerania (b. 1515) January 22 – Antoinette de Bourbon, French noblewoman (b. 1493) January 28 – Pier Francesco Orsini, Italian condottiero and art patron (b. 1523) February 27 – Richard Madox, English explorer (b. 1546) March 24 – Hubert Goltzius, Dutch Renaissance painter-engraver (b. 1526) March 28 – King Magnus of Livonia (b. 1540) April – Lucas David, Prussian historian (b. 1503) April 17 – Ogasawara Nagatoki, Japanese daimyō (b. 1519) May 6 – Zacharias Ursinus, German theologian (b. 1534) May 23 – Günther XLI, Count of Schwarzburg-Arnstadt (b. 1529) June 6 – Nakagawa Kiyohide, Japanese military commander (b. 1556) June 9 – Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1525) June 14 – Shibata Katsuie, Japanese military commander (b. 1522) June – Babullah of Ternate, Sultan of Ternate (b. 1528) July 1 – Sakuma Morimasa, Japanese samurai and warlord (beheaded) (b. 1554) July 6 – Edmund Grindal, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1519) August 22 – Marcantonio Maffei, Italian archbishop and cardinal (b. 1521) September 9 – Humphrey Gilbert, English explorer (b. c. 1537) September 16 – Catherine Jagiellon, queen of John II of Sweden (b. 1526) September 27 – Elisabeth Plainacher, Austrian alleged witch (b. 1513) October 22 – Louis VI, Elector Palatine (b. 1539) November 11 – Gerald FitzGerald, 14th Earl of Desmond, Irish rebel (b. c. 1533) November 24 – René de Birague, French cardinal and chancellor (b. 1506) December 16 – Ivan Fyodorov, Russian printer December 23 – Nicolás Factor, Spanish artist (b. 1520) December 31 – Thomas Erastus, Swiss theologian (b. 1524) date unknown Giocangga, chieftain of the Jurchens (b. 1526) Andrey Kurbsky, Russian writer (b. 1528) Oda Nobutaka, Japanese samurai (b. 1558) References