Deaths
- January 5 – Simeon Bekbulatovich, khan of the Qasim Tatars, Grand Duke of Muscovy and Tver
- January 6 – Philip Henslowe, English theatre manager (b. 1550)
- February – Johannes van den Driesche, Protestant divine (b. 1550)
- February 13 – Anders Sørensen Vedel, priest and historian (b. 1542)
- February 28 – Mikołaj Krzysztof "the Orphan" Radziwiłł, Polish-Lithuanian noble (szlachcic) (b. 1549)
- March 3 – Matthias de Lobel, physician of James I (b. 1538)
- March 6 – Francis Beaumont, dramatist in the English Renaissance theatre (b. 1584)
- March 8 – Maria Anna of Bavaria, daughter of William V, Duke of Bavaria and Renata von Lothringen (b. 1574)
- March 31 – John Adolf, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (b.1575)
- April 16 – Juan de Silva, Spanish military commander and governor of the Philippines
- April 23
- (O.S., Tuesday) – William Shakespeare, English playwright and poet (b. 1564)
- (N.S., Saturday) – Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish author (b. 1547)
- (Inca date unknown) – Inca Garcilaso de la Vega
- June 1 – Tokugawa Ieyasu, Japanese shogun (b. 1543)
- June 4 – Adam Hieronim Sieniawski, Polish noble (b. 1576)
- June 12 – Kuzma Minin, merchant from Nizhny Novgorod
- July 20
- Honda Masanobu, commander and daimyo (b. 1538)
- Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone, Irish soldier (b. 1540)
- July 25 – Andreas Libavius, German physician and chemist (b. 1555)
- July 29 – Tang Xianzu, Chinese playwright and poet (b. 1550)
- August 7
- Scipione Gentili, law professor and legal writer (b. 1563)
- Vincenzo Scamozzi, Italian architect (b. 1548)
- October 11 – Aleksander Józef Lisowski, Polish noble (szlachcic) (b. 1580)
- October 17 – John Pitts, Catholic scholar and writer (b. 1560)
- October 21 – Sakazaki Naomori, daimyo
- October 23 – Leonhard Hutter, German theologian (b. 1563)
- November 23 – Richard Hakluyt, English author, editor and translator (b. c. 1552)
- December 22 – Jacob Le Maire, Dutch mariner (b. 1585)
- December 31 – Jan Szczęsny Herburt, Polish political writer (b. 1567)
- date unknown
- Matteo Perez d'Aleccio, Italian painter (b. 1547)
- Shimozuma Chuko, monk of the Hongan-ji (b. 1551)
- Yonten Gyatso, 4th Dalai Lama (b. 1589)
- Meir Lublin, Polish rabbi (b. 1558)
- Henry Robinson, English bishop (b. 1553)
- probable
- Hendrick Christiaensen, Dutch explorer
- Krzysztof Klabon, Polish Renaissance composer (b. 1550)
- Alexander Whitaker, Virginia Colony religious leader (b. 1585)
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“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
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