instrument maker (b. 1531) September 20 – Kanamori Nagachika, Japanese samurai (b. 1524) September 28 – Henri, Duke of Joyeuse, French general (b. 1563) October–December October 11 – Giovanni Ambrogio Figino, Italian painter (b. c. 1549) October 17 – Luca Bati, Italian composer (b. 1546) October 19 Martin Delrio, Flemish theologian and occultist (b. 1551) Geoffrey Fenton, English writer and politician (b. 1539) Maria Pypelinckx, Dutch writer (b. 1538) October 26 – Philipp Nicolai, German Lutheran pastor (b. 1556) October 29 – John Smith, English politician (b. 1557) November 24 – Giovanni Battista Giorgi, Italian Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Ston (1606–1608) (b. 1536) December 21 – William Davison, secretary to Queen Elizabeth I of England (b. c. 1541) December 29 – Martin Schalling the Younger, German theologian (b. 1532) Date unknown George Bannatyne, collector of Scottish poems (b. 1545) References Leap years in the Gregorian calendar