and organist (d. 1673) Date unknown Margareta Beijer, director of the Swedish royal post office (d. 1675) Deaths January–March January/February – Robert Cushman, English Plymouth Colony settler (b. 1577) January 5 – Simon Marius, German astronomer (b. 1573) January 7 – Ruggiero Giovannelli, Italian composer (b. c. 1560) January 17 – Maria Dolgorukova, first spouse of Tsar Michael I of Russia (b. c. 1601) January 18 – John Pakington, English noble (b. 1549) January 23 – Count John III of Rietberg (b. 1566) January 27 – Adrianus Valerius, Dutch National Anthem writer (b. c. 1575) January 29 – Jacob Gretser, German Jesuit writer (b. 1562) February 6 – Philipp Julius, Duke of Pomerania (b. 1584) February 19 – Arthur Chichester, 1st Baron Chichester, English peer (b. 1563) February 26 Anna Vasa of Sweden, Polish and Swedish princess (b. 1568) Jeremiah of Wallachia, Romanian-born Capuchin lay brother, who spent his entire adult life serving as an infirmarian of the Order in Italy (b. 1556) March 2 – James Hamilton, 2nd Marquess of Hamilton (b. 1589) March 7 Johann Bayer, German lawyer and uranographer (celestial cartographer) (b. 1572) Joachim Ernst, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1603–1625) (b. 1583) March 26 – Giambattista Marino, Italian poet (b. 1569) March 27 – King James VI of Scotland/James I of England and Ireland (b. 1566) March 28 or March 29 – Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas, Spanish historian (b. 1549) April–June April 5 – Andres de Soto, Franciscan preacher and spiritual writer (b. 1552) April 7 – Adriaan van den Spiegel, Flemish physician, anatomist (b. 1578) April 10 – Michael de Sanctis, Spanish Trinitarian priest (b. 1591) April 15 – Thomas Field, Irish Jesuit (b. 1546) April 16 – Nicholas Assheton, English country squire, writer (b. 1590) April 23 – Maurice, Prince of Orange (b. 1567) April 30 Marco Passionei, Italian Catholic, member of the Order of Friars Minor (b. 1560) Lawrence Tanfield, British politician (b. 1551) May 7 – John Garrard, Lord Mayor of London (1601-1602) (b. 1550) May 25 – William Barlow, British scientist (b. 1603) June 1 – Honoré d'Urfé, French writer (b. 1568) June 2 – Mōri Terumoto, Japanese warrior (b. 1553) June 5 – Orlando Gibbons, English composer and organist (b. 1583) July–September July 1 – Teimuraz I, Prince of Mukhrani, Georgian prince (b. 1572) July 19 – Samuel Besler, Polish composer (b. 1574) July 26 – Johannes Piscator, German theologian (b.