Deaths
- January 28 - Sir Thomas Bodley, founder of the Bodleian Library (born 1545)
- February 16 - Mikalojus Daukša, Lithuanian religious writer and translator (born c. 1527)
- August 18 - Giovanni Artusi, music theorist (born c. 1540)
- August 26 - George Owen, antiquarian author (born 1552)
- September 15 - Sir Thomas Overbury, poet and essayist (probably poisoned by Frances Howard, Countess of Somerset) (born 1581)
- October 22 - Mathurin Régnier, satirist (born 1573)
- November 16 - Trajano Boccalini, satirist (born 1556)
- date unknown - Henry Constable, poet (born 1562)
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