of Poland (d. 1598) August 25 – Elizabeth of Denmark, Duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, German regent (d. 1626) September 8 – Georg Friedrich von Greiffenklau, Archbishop of Mainz (d. 1629) September 28 – Théodore de Mayerne, Swiss physician (d. 1654) September 29 – Robert Payne, English politician (d. 1631) October 6 – Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton (d. 1624) October 7 – William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1645) October 11 – Jacobus Boonen, Dutch Catholic archbishop (d. 1655) November 3 – Catherine of Lorraine, Abbess of Remiremont (d. 1648) November 29 – Johannes Canuti Lenaeus, archbishop of Uppsala (d. 1669) November 30 – Aubert Miraeus, Belgian historian (d. 1640) December 6 – Odoardo Farnese, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1626) December 21 – Mathurin Régnier, French satirist (d. 1613) December 22 – Ernest Casimir I, Count of Nassau-Dietz (1606–1632) and Stadtholder of Groningen, Friesland and Drenthe (1625–1632) (d. 1632) December 23 – Giovanni Battista Crespi, Italian painter (d. 1632) date unknown Gabrielle d'Estrées, French royal mistress (d. 1599) Ukita Hideie, Japanese daimyō (d. 1655) Richard Johnson, English romance writer (d. 1659) Johannes Junius, Burgomeister of Bamberg (d. 1628) John Kendrick, English merchant (d. 1624) Oeyo, wife of Tokugawa Hidetada (d. 1626) Sigismund Báthory, Prince of Transylvania and of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1613) approximate year June – Joan Pau Pujol, Catalan composer and organist (d. 1626) Deaths January 1 Hans Boije af Gennäs, Swedish commander Johann Pfeffinger, German theologian (b. 1493) January 12 – William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham, English Lord High Admiral (b. 1510) February 7 – Hedwig Jagiellon, Electress of Brandenburg (b. 1513) March 2 – Johann Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (b. 1530) March 3 – Claude, Duke of Aumale, third son of Claude, Duke of Guise (b. 1526) March 13 – Michel de l'Hôpital, French statesman (b. 1505) April 2 – Otto Truchsess von Waldburg, German Catholic cardinal (b. 1514) April 7 – Andreas Masius, Flemish Catholic priest (b. 1514) April 29 – Guillaume Le Testu, French privateer (b. 1509) May 13 – Takeda Shingen, Japanese warlord (b. 1521) May 14 (bur.) – Richard Grafton, English merchant and printer (b. c.1506/7) June 15 – Antun Vrančić, Croatian archbishop (b. 1504) July – Étienne Jodelle, French dramatist and poet (b. 1532) July 7 – Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, Italian architect (b. 1507) July 16 – Wigbolt Ripperda, mayor of Haarlem, Netherlands July 29 John Caius,