February 5 – Strange Jørgenssøn, Norwegian businessman (b. 1539) February 22 – Polykarp Leyser the Elder, German theologian (b. 1552) February 27 – Philippe Canaye, French diplomat (b. 1551) March 6 – Benedict Pereira, Spanish theologian (b. 1535) March 7 – Maria, Abbess of Quedlinburg, German abbess (b. 1571) March 19 Valeriano Muti, Italian Catholic prelate (year of birth unknown) Hasegawa Tōhaku, Japanese painter (b. 1539) March 20 – Princess Anna Maria of Sweden, Swedish royal (b. 1545) March 24 – Henry Cocke, English politician (b. 1538) March 28 – Wolfgang, Count of Hohenlohe-Weikersheim, German count (b. 1546) March 30 – Thomas Gorges, English knight (b. 1536) April–June April 7 – Hirata Masumune, Japanese samurai (b. 1566) April 15 – Robert Parsons, English Jesuit priest (b. 1546) April 24 – Anna of Holstein-Gottorp, German noblewoman (b. 1575) May 11 Ikoma Kazumasa, Japanese samurai (b. 1555) Matteo Ricci, Italian Jesuit priest and servant of God (b. 1552) May 14 – King Henry IV of France, (assassinated) (b. 1553) May 17 – Gervase Babington, English churchman (b. 1549) May 19 – Thomas Sanchez, Spanish theologian (b. 1550) May 27 – François Ravaillac, French assassin of Henry IV of France (executed) (b. 1578) June 13 – Thomas Tesdale, English maltster (b. 1547) July–September July – Richard Knolles, English historian (b. 1545) July 14 – Francis Solanus, Spanish friar and missionary in South America (b. 1549) July 17 – Amandus Polanus, German writer (b. 1561) July 18 – Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Italian painter active in Rome (b. 1571) July 22 – Charles I, Duke of Mecklenburg (b. 1540) July 27 – Jacob van Langren, Dutch cartographer and globe-maker (b. 1525) August 20 – Stanisław Stadnicki, Polish nobleman (b. 1551) August 25 – Mabel Browne, Countess of Kildare, Irish noble (b. 1536) September 13 – Tomás de Borja y Castro, Spanish Catholic archbishop (b. 1551) September 19 – Frederick IV, Elector Palatine (b. 1574) September 22 – Jan Moretus, Belgian printer (b. 1543) October–December October 14 – Amago Yoshihisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1540) November 2 – Richard Bancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1544) November 24 – Duchess Sophie of Prussia, duchess consort of Courland (1609–1610) (b. 1582) December 3 – Honda Tadakatsu, Japanese soldier (b. 1548) December 10 – John Roberts, Welsh Benedictine monk and priest (b. 1577) December 11 Adam Elsheimer, German artist working in Rome who died at only thirty-two