Deaths
- January/February – Mogens Pedersøn, instrumentalist and composer (born c.1583)
- May 4 – Asprilio Pacelli, composer (born 1570)
- May 5 – Philip Rosseter, musician and composer (born 1567/8)
- July 4 – William Byrd, composer (born 1543)
- November 30 – Thomas Weelkes, English composer (born 1576)
- date unknown
- Giovanni Bernardino Nanino, composer, teacher and singing master (born c.1560)
- Tulsidas, Hindu philosopher, composer, and poet (born 1532)
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