(d. 1661) December 28 – Elizabeth Stuart, second daughter of King Charles I of England (d. 1650) December 31 – Sir Robert Southwell, English diplomat (d. 1702) Date unknown Thomas Betterton, English actor (d. 1710) Deaths January 16 – Mariana de Jesús Torres, Spanish nun and mystic (b. 1563) February 19 – Franco Burgersdijk, Dutch logician (b. 1590) March – Thomas Randolph, English poet March 27 – Robert Naunton, English politician (b. 1563) March 28 – Patrick Forbes, bishop in the Church of Scotland (b. 1564) April 13 – Fakhr-al-Din II, Ottoman Emir of Chouf (b. 1572) April 21 – Maria Musch, Dutch shipowner April 23 – Elizabeth Carey, Lady Berkeley, English courtier (b. 1576) April 25 Alessandro Tassoni, Italian poet and writer (b. 1565) Julius Frederick, Duke of Württemberg-Weiltingen (b. 1588) April 27 Antonio Zapata y Cisneros, Spanish Catholic cardinal (b. 1550) Wolfgang Ratke, German educational reformer (b. 1571) July 10 – Alonso Jerónimo de Salas Barbadillo, Spanish novelist and dramatist (b. c. 1580) August (bur.) – Richard Whitbourne, English colonist of Newfoundland (b. 1561) August 7 – Friedrich von Spee, German writer (b. 1591) August 9 – John II, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (b. 1584) August 27 – Lope de Vega, Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1562) September 6 – Metius, Dutch mathematician and astronomer (b. 1571) September 10 – Johann Faulhaber, German mathematician (b. 1580) October 10 – Johann Ulrich Steigleder, German composer (b. 1593) October 24 – Wilhelm Schickard, German inventor (b. 1592) October 31 – Maria Amalia of Nassau-Dillenburg, German noble (b. 1582) November 5 – Jobst Herman, Count of Schaumburg (b. 1593) November 15 – Thomas Parr, English alleged oldest living man (b. 1483) November 25 – John Hall, English physician, son-in-law of William Shakespeare December 1 – Melchior Teschner, German cantor, composer and theologian (b. 1584) December 9 – Sophie of Saxony, Duchess of Pomerania (b. 1587) December 19 – Albrecht of Hanau-Münzenberg, German nobleman (b. 1579) December 23 – Henry II, Count of Reuss-Gera (b. 1572) December 25 – Samuel de Champlain, French explorer and founder of Quebec (b. c.1567) date unknown Iravikkutti Pillai, Venad leader in India (b. 1603) Urszula Meyerin, politically influential Polish courtier (b. 1570) probable – Anthony Shirley, English traveller (b. 1565) References