7 – Gabriel Harvey, English writer (b. c. 1552/3) February 14 – Tsugaru Nobuhira, Japanese daimyō (b. 1586) March 24 – Philipp Dulichius, German composer (b. 1562) March 31 – John Donne, English writer and prelate (b. 1572) March 28 – Juan van der Hamen, Spanish artist (b. 1596) April 2 – Nicolò Contarini, Doge of Venice (b. 1553) April 5 – Sinibaldo Scorza, Italian painter (b. 1589) April 23 – Francesco Maria II della Rovere, Duke of Urbino, last Duke of Urbino (b. 1549) May 6 – Sir Robert Cotton, 1st Baronet, of Connington, English politician (b. 1570) May 26 – Enrico Caterino Davila, Italian historian and diplomat (b. 1576) June 17 – Mumtaz Mahal, favorite wife of Shah Jahan (b. 1593) June 18 – Robert Payne, English politician (b. 1573) June 21 – John Smith of Jamestown, English soldier and colonist (b. 1580) July 16 – Francis Hay, 9th Earl of Erroll, Scottish noble (b. 1564) July 19 – Cesare Cremonini, Italian philosopher (b. 1550) July 28 – Guillén de Castro y Bellvis, Spanish dramatist (b. 1569) August 3 – Kim Jang-saeng, Korean scholar and writer (b. 1548) August 8 – Konstantinas Sirvydas, Lithuanian religious leader (b. 1579) September 6 – Honda Tadamasa, Japanese daimyō (b. 1575) September 18 – Countess Palatine Dorothea of Simmern (b. 1581) September 21 – Federico Borromeo, Cardinal Archbishop of Milan (b. 1564) October 14 – Sophie of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, queen and regent of Denmark (b. 1557) October 20 – Michael Maestlin, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1550) October 26 – Catherine de Parthenay, French noblewoman and mathematician (b. 1554) October 28 – Sir Richard Beaumont, 1st Baronet, English politician (b. 1574) November 1 – Archduchess Maria Maddalena of Austria (b. 1589) November 7 – Patrick Fleming, Irish Franciscan friar and scholar (murdered) (b. 1599) November 29 – Edmond Richer, French theologian (b. 1559) December 5 – Tommaso Caracciolo, Field Marshal of Spanish forces in the Thirty Years' War (b. 1572) December 7 – Johannes Hartmann, German chemist (b. 1568) December 9 – Liborius Wagner, German Roman Catholic priest (b. 1593) December 10 – Hugh Myddelton, Welsh businessman (b. 1560) December 23 – Michael Drayton, English poet (b. 1563) December 30 – Frederick Achilles, Duke of Württemberg-Neuenstadt (b. 1591) References