Archbishop of Lima (b. 1538) March 25 – François de Bar, French scholar (b. 1538) April 3 – Charles Blount, 1st Earl of Devon, English politician (b. 1563) April 7 – Edward Oldcorne, English martyr (b. 1561) April 16 – John Addey, English shipwright (b. 1550) May 3 – Henry Garnet, English Jesuit (executed) (b. 1555) May 17 False Dmitriy I, pretender to the Russian throne (b. 1582) Niccolò Orlandini, Italian Jesuit writer (b. 1554) May 22 – José de Sigüenza, Spanish theologian (b. 1544) May 30 – Guru Arjan Dev, fifth of the Sikh gurus (executed) (b. 1563) July 7 – Christopher, Duke of Brunswick-Harburg, co-ruler of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Harburg (1603–1606) (b. 1570) July 28 – Antonio de Raya Navarrete, Spanish Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Cuzco (1594–1606) (b. 1536) September 2 – Karel van Mander, Dutch painter and poet (b. 1548) September 3 – Juan de Borja y Castro, Spanish noble (b. 1533) September 9 – Leonhard Lechner, German composer and music editor (b. 1553) September 28 – Nicolaus Taurellus, German philosopher and theologian (b. 1547) October 5 – Philippe Desportes, French poet (b. 1546) October 8 – Johann VI, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg (b. 1536) November 8 – Girolamo Mercuriale, Italian philologist and physician (b. 1530) November 16 – Alderano Cybo-Malaspina, Italian nobleman (b. 1552) November 20 – (burial date) John Lyly, English writer (b. 1553) December 29 – Stephen Bocskay, Prince of Transylvania (b. 1557) Date unknown – Akaza Naoyasu, Japanese nobleman References