Chartres. A Spanish expedition under Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira discovers the Solomon Islands. Álvaro I succeeds his stepfather Henrique I as ruler of the Kingdom Kongo forming the Kwilu dynasty that ruled the kingdom without interruption until May 1622 Births January 6 – Henri Spondanus, French historian (d. 1643) January 14 – Johannes Hartmann, German chemist (d. 1631) January 20 – Daniel Cramer, German theologian (d. 1637) January 28 – Gustav of Sweden, Swedish prince (d. 1607) January 30 – Countess Katharina of Hanau-Lichtenberg (d. 1636) February 2 – Péter Révay, Hungarian historian (d. 1622) February 11 – Honoré d'Urfé, French writer (d. 1625) March 9 – Aloysius Gonzaga, Italian Jesuit and saint (d. 1591) March 16 – Juan Martínez Montañés, Spanish sculptor (d. 1649) March 28 – Johannes Polyander, Dutch theologian (d. 1646) March 30 – Henry Wotton, English author and diplomat (d. 1639) April 5 – Pope Urban VIII (d. 1644) April 17 – George Brooke, English aristocrat (d. 1603) April 21 – Frederick II, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (d. 1587) April 28 – Teodósio II, Duke of Braganza, Portuguese nobleman and father of João IV of Portugal (d. 1630) May 9 – Guglielmo Caccia, Italian painter (d. 1625) May 11 – Christian I, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg, German prince of the House of Ascania (d. 1630) May 17 – Anna Vasa of Sweden, Swedish princess (d. 1625) May 29 – Virginia de' Medici, Duchess of Modena and Reggio (d. 1615) June 6 – Sophie of Brandenburg, Regent of Saxony (1591–1601) (d. 1622) June 25 – Gunilla Bielke, Queen of Sweden (d. 1597) July 1 – Philip Sigismund of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, German Catholic bishop (d. 1623) August 27 – Hercule, Duke of Montbazon (d. 1654) September 3 – Adriano Banchieri, Italian composer (d. 1634) September 5 – Tommaso Campanella, Italian theologian and poet (d. 1639) October 2 – Marino Ghetaldi, Croatian mathematician and physicist (d. 1626) October 18 – Henry Wallop, English politician (d. 1642) November 18 – Augustus the Elder, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Lutheran Bishop of Ratzeburg (d. 1636) December 17 – Jonathan Trelawny, English politician (d. 1604) December 25 – John Guy, English merchant venturer and first Governor of Newfoundland (d. 1629) date unknown Nikolaus Ager, French botanist (d. 1634) John Welsh of Ayr, Scottish Presbyterian leader Barnabe Barnes, English poet (d. 1609) Edward Chichester, 1st Viscount Chichester (d. 1648) Nakagawa Hidemasa, Japanese military leader (d. 1592) Fernando