Editing 1624

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[[File:AMH-6700-KB_Gezicht_op_de_slag_om_stad_San_Salvador_in_de_Allerheiligenbaai_tussen_Nederlanders_en_Portugezen_in_1624.jpg|thumb|300px|[[May 8]]: The [[Capture of Bahia]] in Portuguese Brazil is made by the Dutch East India Company]]
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== Events ==
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=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 14]] &ndash; After 90 years of [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] occupation, [[Baghdad]] is recaptured by the [[Safavid empire|Safavid Empire]].
* [[January 22]] &ndash; Korean General [[Yi Gwal]] leads [[Yi Gwal's Rebellion|an uprising of 12,000 soldiers]] against [[King Injo]] in what is called then the [[Joseon Kingdom]], and occupies [[Hanseong]].
* [[January 24]] &ndash; [[Afonso Mendes]], appointed by [[Pope Gregory XV]] as Prelate of [[Ethiopia]], arrives at [[Massawa]] from [[Goa]].
* [[February 7]] &ndash; (January 28, 1623/4 old style) England first colonizes [[Saint Kitts and Nevis]].
* [[February 11]] &ndash; [[Yi Gwal]] installs Prince Heungan, son of the late [[Seonjo of Joseon|King Seongjo]], to the Korean throne.
* [[February 15]] &ndash; [[Yi Gwal's Rebellion]] ends as the rebels murder [[Yi Gwal]] at the town of Mukbang-ri.
* [[February 16]] &ndash; [[Kara Mustafa Pasha]] becomes the [[Ottoman Governor of Egypt]] for the second time.
* [[February 19]]
**[[Philip IV of Spain|King Filipe III]] of [[Portugal]] issues a decree [[Slavery in Portugal|prohibiting the enslavement of Chinese people]] in Portugal or in its colonies.<ref>Gary João de Pina-Cabral, ''Between China and Europe: person, culture and emotion in Macao'' (Berg Publishers, 2002) p. 114</ref>
**The [[4th Parliament of King James I|last parliament]] of King [[James I of England]] begins its session.
* [[February 28]] &ndash; A decree is issued in [[Norway]] making it illegal for [[Jesuit]]s or Roman Catholic monks to be harbored in the country.
* [[March 2]] &ndash; The English House of Commons passes a resolution making it [[Resignation from the House of Commons of the United Kingdom|illegal for a Member of Parliament (MP) to quit or willfully give up his seat]]. Afterward, MPs who wish to quit are appointed to an "[[office of profit]]", a [[legal fiction]] to allow a resignation.
* [[March 25]] &ndash; In a ceremony,  [[Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor]], renews his oath to restore Catholicism in Germany, Bohemia, Hungary and Croatia.

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 13]] &ndash; [[Garcia I of Kongo|Garcia Mvemba a Nkanga]] is enthroned as King Garcia I of the southern African nation of [[Kingdom of Kongo|Kongo]] (now in [[Angola]]), upon the death of his father, [[Pedro II of Kongo|King Pedro II]]. 
* [[April 15]] &ndash; The [[University of Saint Francis Xavier]] is founded in [[Bolivia]].
* [[April 29]] &ndash; [[Louis XIII of France]] appoints [[Cardinal Richelieu]] to the ''[[Conseil du Roi]]'' (Royal Council).
* [[May 8]] &ndash; [[Capture of Bahia]]: A [[Dutch West India Company]] fleet captures the Brazilian city of [[Salvador, Bahia]] from the [[Portuguese Empire]] (at this time in the [[Iberian Union]]).
* [[May 11]] &ndash; a [[1624 Fez earthquake|major earthquake in Fez, Morocco]], estimated magnitude 6.0 {{M|w|link=yes}}, causes severe damage and thousands of casualties.
* [[May 24]]
**  The city of [[Oslo]], Norway, is destroyed by fire for the fourteenth time.<ref name=Fires>"Fires, Great", in ''The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance'', Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876) p29</ref>  King [[Christian IV of Denmark]]–Norway decrees its rebuilding on a new site, where it will be renamed ''Christiania''.
** After years of unprofitable operation, [[Colony of Virginia|Virginia]]'s charter is revoked, and it becomes a royal colony.  
* [[May 25]] &ndash; The Scottish city of [[Dunfermline]] is destroyed by fire, but [[Dunfermline Abbey|The Abbey]], [[Dunfermline Palace|The Palace]], the [[Abbot House, Dunfermline|Abbot House]] and many other buildings survive.
* [[May]] &ndash; The first Dutch settlers arrive in [[New Netherland]]; they disembark at [[Governors Island]].
* [[June 10]] &ndash; [[Treaty of Compiègne]] is signed between the [[Kingdom of France]] and the [[Dutch Republic]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Richard Bonney|title=The King's Debts: Finance and Politics in France 1589-1661|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_M9nAAAAMAAJ|year=1981|publisher=Clarendon Press|isbn=978-0-19-822563-8|page=122|language=en}}</ref>

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 30]] &ndash; A contingent of 5,000 Chinese troops and 50 warships under the command of Admiral [[Yu Zigao]] and General Wang Mengxiong [[Sino-Dutch conflicts#1620s|attacks the Dutch fortress]] at the island of Magong, the largest of the [[Penghu]] islands under the command of [[Martinus Sonck]].  Outnumbered, the Dutch surrender in five days.  
* [[August 4]] &ndash; The [[Dutch East India Company]] agrees to Chinese demands to withdraw its operations from the [[Penghu]] islands, and relocates its trading post to [[Fort Zeelandia (Taiwan)|Fort Zeelandia]] and the Dutch-controlled island of [[Dutch Formosa|Formosa]], now [[Tainan]] on [[Taiwan]].  
* [[August 5]] &ndash; [[King's Men (playing company)|The King's Men]] perform [[Thomas Middleton]]'s [[satire]] ''[[A Game at Chess]]'' at the [[Globe Theatre]] in London. The performances are suppressed on August 14 in view of the play's allusions to the [[Spanish Match]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Trevor Howard Howard-Hill|title=Middleton's "Vulgar Pasquin": Essays on A Game at Chess|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vy8zmR4yupEC&pg=PA156|year=1995|publisher=University of Delaware Press|isbn=978-0-87413-534-3|pages=156|language=en}}</ref>
* [[August 13]] &ndash; [[Cardinal Richelieu]] is appointed by [[Louis XIII of France]] to be his [[chief minister of France|chief minister]], having intrigued against [[Charles de La Vieuville]], [[Superintendent of Finances]], arrested for corruption the previous day.
* [[August 24]] &ndash; [[List of fatalities while playing cricket|Jasper Vinall]] becomes the first person to die while playing the sport of [[cricket]], after being struck on the head with a bat during a game at [[Horsted Keynes]] in [[England]]. <ref>Tim McCann, ''Sussex Cricket in the Eighteenth Century'' (Sussex Record Society, 2004) pp.xxxiii–xxxiv</ref>
* [[August 28]] &ndash; The [[Siege of Breda (1624)|Siege of Breda]] begins, and will continue for just over 9 months until June 5, 1625.
* [[August]] &ndash; Portuguese [[Society of Jesus|Jesuit]] priest [[António de Andrade]] becomes the first European to enter [[Tibet]], arriving at [[Tsaparang]]. <ref>Cornelius Wessels, ''Early Jesuit Travellers in Central Asia, 1603-1721'' (Martinus Nijhoff, 1924) p. 63</ref> 
* [[September 4]] &ndash;  The [[Parlement of Paris]] registers a decree forbidding the publication of criticism of "anciently approved authors" without prior approval from the Faculty of Theology of the University of Paris, on pain of death.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kahn |first=Didier |date=2002 |title=La condamnation des thèses d'Antoine de Villon et Étienne de Clave contre Aristote, Paracelse et les « cabalistes » (1624) |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23633673 |journal=Revue d'histoire des sciences |volume=55 |issue=2 |pages=143–198 |issn=0151-4105}}</ref>
* [[September 13]] &ndash; [[Ketevan the Martyr|Ketevan]], former [[queen consort]] of [[Kingdom of Kakheti|Kakheti]] (located around [[Gremi]] in what is now the Republic of Georgia), is tortured and killed in the Persian city of [[Shiraz]] after refusing to renounce Christianity to convert to [[Islam]].
* [[September 19]] &ndash; [[Michael of Russia|Michael I]], the [[Tsar of Russia]], is married at Moscow, making [[Maria Dolgorukova]] the Tsaritsa. Maria becomes ill shortly afterward and dies five months after the marriage, on January 17.
* [[September 21]] &ndash; The Roman Catholic church's [[Dicastery for the Clergy]] issues a decree that no monk may be expelled from his order "unless he be truly incorrigible."

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 3]] &ndash; A combined squadron of fifteen [[Naples|Neapolitan]] (Spain), Tuscan, and Papal [[galley]]s defeat a squadron of six Algerian ships on the [[San Pietro Island|island of San Pietro]], near [[Sardinia]]. ([[Action of 3 October 1624|details]])
* [[November 3]] &ndash; [[Rodrigo Pacheco, 3rd Marquess of Cerralvo|Rodrigo Pacheco]] becomes the [[Viceroy of New Spain]] after arriving in [[Mexico City]]. 
* [[December 24]] &ndash; [[Denmark]]'s first postal service is launched by order of King [[Christian IV of Denmark|Christian IV]].

=== Date unknown ===
* The Japanese ''[[shōgun]]'' expels the Spanish from Japan, and severs trade with the [[Philippines]].
* [[Henry Briggs (mathematician)|Henry Briggs]] publishes ''Arithmetica Logarithmica''.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Professor of History Mordechai Feingold|author2=Mordechai Feingold|title=The Mathematician's Apprenticeship: Science, Universities and Society in England 1560-1640|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7q48AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA141|date=9 February 1984|publisher=CUP Archive|isbn=978-0-521-25133-4|pages=141}}</ref>
* [[Jakob Bartsch]] first publishes a chart, showing the constellation [[Camelopardalis]] around the [[North Star]].
* Queen [[Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba]] starts to rule.
* [[Frans Hals]] produces the painting later known as the ''[[Laughing Cavalier]]''.<ref>[[Wallace Collection]], London.</ref>
* The German-language [[Luther Bible]] is publicly burned, by order of the Pope.
* A confrontation between Swedish and Danish councillors ends with a Swedish diplomatic victory due to Sweden's ability to mobilize quickly.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Lockhart |first=Paul Douglas |date=2004 |title=Sweden in the Seventeenth Century |url=https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-0-230-80255-1 |journal=SpringerLink |language=en | quote= The reforms, by providing Sweden with military forces that were simultaneously professional, native, and easy to mobilize, paid immediate and handsome dividends. When Swedish and Danish councillors confronted one another in the tense showdown at Knäröd in 1624 (see Chapter 3), it was Sweden’s ability to mobilize its forces at a moment’s notice that made possible a diplomatic victory over wealthier Denmark. |doi=10.1007/978-0-230-80255-1|isbn=978-0-333-73157-4 |url-access=subscription }}</ref>
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== Births ==
[[File:Guarino Guarini.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Guarino Guarini]]]]
[[File:Mgr Lambert de la Motte.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Pierre Lambert de la Motte]]]]
[[File:Lambert Doomer, by Ferdinand Bol.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Lambert Doomer]]]]
[[File:Thomas Sydenham by Mary Beale.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Thomas Sydenham]]]]
[[File:Murád Baxsh.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Murad Bakhsh]]]]
[[File:Barent Fabritius - Self-portrait as John the Evangelist.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Barent Fabritius]]]]

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 7]] &ndash; [[Guarino Guarini]], Italian architect of the Piedmontese Baroque (d. [[1683]])
* [[January 9]] &ndash; [[Empress Meishō]] of Japan (d. [[1696]])
* [[January 15]] &ndash; [[Rombout Verhulst]], Dutch sculptor (d. [[1698]])
* [[January 16]] &ndash; [[Pierre Lambert de la Motte]], French bishop (d. [[1679]])
* [[January 18]] &ndash; [[Thyrsus González de Santalla]], Spanish theologian elected [[Superior General of the Society of Jesus]] (d. [[1705]])
* [[January 26]] &ndash; [[George William, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg]] (d. [[1705]])
* [[January 31]] &ndash; [[Arnold Geulincx]], Flemish philosopher (d. [[1669]])
* [[February 11]]
** [[Ivan Ančić]], Croatian theological writer (d. [[1685]])
** [[Lambert Doomer]], Dutch Golden Age landscape painter (d. [[1700]])
* [[February 23]] &ndash; [[Robert Treat]], American colonial leader (d. [[1710]])
* [[March]] &ndash; [[Jane Leade]], English esotericist (d. [[1704]]) 
* [[March 6]] &ndash; [[Johann Georg Albinus]], German pastor and hymnist (d. [[1679]])
* [[March 12]] &ndash; [[Damian Hartard von der Leyen-Hohengeroldseck]], German archbishop (d. [[1678]])
* [[March 20]] &ndash; [[William Jones (deputy governor)|William Jones]], English lawyer, Deputy Governor of Connecticut (d. [[1706]])
* [[March 21]]
** [[François Roberday]], French Baroque organist and composer (d. [[1680]])
** [[Paolo Segneri]], Italian Jesuit (d. [[1694]])
* [[March 25]] &ndash; [[William Pulteney (1624–1691)|William Pulteney]], English Member of Parliament (d. [[1691]])
* [[March 31]] &ndash; [[Antoine Pagi]], French ecclesiastical historian (d. [[1699]])

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 4]] &ndash; [[François Marie, Prince of Lillebonne]], French nobleman and member of the House of Lorraine (d. [[1694]])
* [[April 9]] &ndash; [[Henrik Rysensteen]], Dutch military engineer (d. [[1679]])
* [[April 12]] &ndash; [[Charles Amadeus, Duke of Nemours]] (d. [[1652]])
* [[April 15]] &ndash; [[Pieter Nijs]], Dutch Golden Age painter (d. [[1681]])
* [[April 20]] &ndash; [[Samuel Mearne]], English Restoration bookbinder and publisher (d. [[1683]])
* [[April 24]] &ndash; [[Jan Peeters I]], Flemish Baroque painter (d. [[1677]])
* [[April 25]] &ndash; [[Sir Lionel Tollemache, 3rd Baronet]], English baronet (d. [[1669]])
* [[April 26]] &ndash; [[Johann Leusden]], Dutch Calvinist theologian (d. [[1699]])
* [[May 13]] &ndash; [[Aleksander Kazimierz Sapieha]], Polish nobleman and archbishop (d. [[1671]])
* [[May 23]] &ndash; [[William Duckett (Calne MP, died 1686)|William Duckett]], English politician (d. [[1686]])
* [[May 30]] &ndash; [[Leopold Frederick, Duke of Württemberg-Montbéliard]], German noble (d. [[1662]])
* [[June 11]] &ndash; [[Jean-Baptiste du Hamel]], French cleric and natural philosopher (d. [[1706]])
* [[June 15]] &ndash; [[Hiob Ludolf]], German orientalist (d. [[1704]])
* [[June 16]] &ndash; [[William Bradford (Plymouth soldier)|William Bradford]], American political and military leader (d. [[1703]])
* [[June 20]] &ndash; [[Henry Albin]], English minister (d. [[1696]])
* [[June 26]] &ndash; [[James Scudamore (died 1668)|James Scudamore]], English politician (d. [[1668]])

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July]] &ndash; [[George Fox]], English founder of the [[Quakers]] (d. [[1691]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Friends' Literature Committee|title=New Appreciations of George Fox; a Tercentenary Collection of Studies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sc0mAQAAIAAJ|year=1971|publisher=Kennikat Press|isbn=978-0-8046-1163-3|page=26}}</ref>
* [[July 11]] &ndash; [[John Collins (Andover MP)|John Collins]], English academic and politician (d. [[1711]])
* [[July 18]] &ndash; [[Francis Pemberton]], English judge, Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench (d. [[1697]])
* [[August 6]] &ndash; [[Charles Kerr, 2nd Earl of Ancram]], English politician (d. [[1690]])
* [[August 11]] &ndash; [[John Strode (died 1679)|John Strode]], English politician (d. [[1679]])
* [[August 22]] &ndash; [[Jean Regnault de Segrais]], French poet and novelist born in Caen (d. [[1701]])
* [[August 23]] &ndash; [[Anna Elisabeth of Saxe-Lauenburg]], Landgravine consort of Hesse-Homburg (d. [[1688]])
* [[August 24]] &ndash; [[Petronella de la Court]], Dutch art collector (d. [[1707]])
* [[August 25]] &ndash; [[François de la Chaise]], French churchman (d. [[1709]])
* [[August 27]] &ndash; [[Koxinga]], Chinese military leader (d. [[1662]])
* [[September 1]] &ndash; [[Simón González de Acosta]], Spanish colonial governor (d. [[1653]])
* [[September 10]] &ndash; [[Thomas Sydenham]], English physician (d. [[1689]])
* [[September 12]] &ndash; [[Wingfield Cromwell, 2nd Earl of Ardglass]], English nobleman (d. [[1668]])
* [[September 15]] &ndash; [[Francesco Provenzale]], Italian Baroque composer and teacher (d. [[1704]])

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 5]] (''bapt.'') &ndash; [[Gaspar de Witte]], Flemish painter (d. [[1681]])
* [[October 9]] &ndash; [[Murad Bakhsh]], [[Mughal Empire|Mughal]] prince (d. [[1661]])
* [[October 19]] &ndash; [[Robert Danvers]], English politician (d. [[1674]])
* [[October 20]] &ndash; [[Jan Albertsz Rotius]], Dutch painter (d. [[1666]])
* [[October 21]] &ndash; [[Edward Harley (Parliamentarian)|Edward Harley]], English politician (d. [[1700]])
* [[October 26]] &ndash; [[Dosoftei]], Moldavian Metropolitan (d. [[1693]])
* [[October 30]] &ndash; [[Paul Pellisson]], French author (d. [[1693]])
* [[November 2]] &ndash; [[Sir Thomas Myddelton, 1st Baronet]], English politician (d. [[1663]])
* [[November 3]] &ndash; [[Jean II d'Estrées]], French noble (d. [[1707]])
* [[November 16]] &ndash; [[Barent Fabritius]], Dutch painter (d. [[1673]])
* [[November 28]] &ndash; [[Angélique de Saint-Jean Arnauld d'Andilly]], French Jansenist nun (d. [[1684]])
* [[December 16]] &ndash; [[Queen Jangnyeol]], Korean royal consort (d. [[1688]])
* [[December 17]] &ndash; [[Juriaen Jacobsze]], Dutch painter (d. [[1685]])
* [[December 18]] &ndash; [[John Hull (merchant)|John Hull]], American colonial merchant and politician (d. [[1683]])
* [[December 25]] &ndash; [[Angelus Silesius]], German writer (d. [[1677]])

=== Date unknown ===
* [[Louise de Prie]], French royal governess (d. [[1709]])
* [[Torii Tadaharu]], Japanese nobleman (d. [[1651]])
* [[William Tucker (Virginia colony)|William Tucker]], first known African-American born in the [[Colony of Virginia]] (d. ''unknown'')<ref>{{Cite web |last=Wade |first=Evan |date=2014-04-16 |title=William Tucker (1624- ?) |url=https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/tucker-william-1624/ |access-date=20 April 2023 |language=en-US}}</ref>

=== Approximate date ===
* Female [[Greenland shark]] (still alive in 21st century).<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Nielsen|first1=J.|last2=Hedeholm|first2=R. B.|last3=Heinemeier|first3=J.|last4=Bushnell|first4=P. G.|last5=Christiansen|first5=J. S.|last6=Olsen|first6=J.|last7=Ramsey|first7=C. B.|last8=Brill|first8=R. W.|last9=Simon|first9=M.|last10=Steffensen|first10=K. F.|last11=Steffensen|first11=J. F.|date=2016-08-12|title=Eye lens radiocarbon reveals centuries of longevity in the Greenland shark (''Somniosus microcephalus'')|journal=[[Science (journal)|Science]]|language=en|volume=353|issue=6300|pages=702–704|doi=10.1126/science.aaf1703|pmid=27516602|bibcode=2016Sci...353..702N|s2cid=206647043|url=https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:6c040460-9519-4720-9669-9911bdd03b09|hdl=2022/26597|hdl-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.science.org/content/article/greenland-shark-may-live-400-years-smashing-longevity-record-rev2|title=Greenland shark may live 400 years, smashing longevity record|last=Pennisi|first=Elizabeth|author-link=Elizabeth Pennisi|date=2016-08-11|journal=Science|access-date=2016-08-11}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-37047168|title=400-year-old Greenland shark 'longest-living vertebrate'|last=Morelle|first=Rebecca|author-link=Rebecca Morelle|website=[[BBC News]]|date=2016-08-12|access-date=2016-08-12}}</ref>

== Deaths ==
[[File:Sabinin. M. Queen Ketevan.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Ketevan the Martyr]]]]
[[File:Willem Buytewech.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Willem Pieterszoon Buytewech]]]]
[[File:SimondeRojasOSS.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Simón de Rojas]]]]
[[File:Bauhin Gaspard 1550-1624.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Gaspard Bauhin]]]]
[[File:Sir John Kendrick.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[John Kendrick (cloth merchant)|John Kendrick]]]]

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 3]] &ndash; [[Jacopo Inghirami]], Tuscan admiral (b. [[1565]])
* [[January 17]] &ndash; [[Tamás Erdődy]], Hungarian noble, [[Ban of Croatia]] (b. [[1558]])
* [[January 24]] &ndash; [[Martin Becanus]], Dutch Jesuit priest (b. [[1563]])
* [[February 4]] &ndash; [[Vicente Espinel]], Spanish writer (b. [[1550]])
* [[February 6]] &ndash; [[Lamoral, 1st Prince of Ligne]] (b. [[1563]])
* [[February 7]] &ndash; [[Cort Aslakssøn]], Norwegian astronomer (b. [[1564]])
* [[February 12]] &ndash; [[George Heriot]], Scottish goldsmith and philanthropist (b. [[1563]])
* [[February 13]] &ndash; [[Stephen Gosson]], English satirist (b. [[1554]])
* [[February 16]] &ndash; [[Ludovic Stewart, 2nd Duke of Lennox]], Scottish nobleman and politician (b. [[1574]])
* [[February 17]] &ndash; [[Juan de Mariana]], Spanish historian (b. [[1536]])
* [[February 18]] &ndash; [[Francis Ros]], first Latin Archbishop of Angamaly-Cranganore (b. [[1559]])
* [[February 19]] &ndash; [[Thomas Fleming (died 1624)|Thomas Fleming]], English politician (b. [[1572]])
* [[February 21]] &ndash; [[John Adolph, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Norburg]], Duke of Norburg at Als (b. [[1576]])
* [[February 24]] &ndash; [[Paul Laurentius]], German divine (b. [[1554]])
* [[February 28]] &ndash; [[Clemens Timpler]], German philosopher (b. [[1563]])
* [[March 15]] &ndash; [[Louis of Anhalt-Köthen (the Younger)|Louis of Anhalt-Köthen]], German prince (b. [[1607]])
* [[March 27]] &ndash; [[Ulrik of Denmark (1578–1624)|Ulrik of Denmark]], Danish prince-bishop (b. [[1578]])
* [[March 28]] &ndash; [[Richard Sackville, 3rd Earl of Dorset]], English noble (b. [[1589]])

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 13]] &ndash; [[William Bishop (bishop)|William Bishop]], first Roman Catholic bishop after the English Reformation (b. [[1553]])
* [[April 17]] &ndash; [[Mariana Navarro de Guevarra Romero]], Spanish Catholic nun who became a member of the Mercedarian Tertiaries (b. [[1565]])
* [[May 27]] &ndash; [[Diego Ramírez de Arellano]], Spanish sailor and cosmographer (b. c. [[1580]])
* [[June 2]] &ndash; [[Jacques l'Hermite]], Dutch admiral and explorer (b. [[1582]])
* [[June 4]] &ndash; [[Rombertus van Uylenburgh]], Dutch lawyer (b. [[1554]])

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July]] &ndash; [[Alonso Fajardo de Entenza]], governor of the Philippines
* [[July 17]] &ndash; [[Johan van Dorth]], Dutch noble (b. [[1574]])
* [[July 22]] &ndash; [[García de Silva Figueroa]], Spanish diplomat and traveller (b. [[1550]])
* [[July 31]] &ndash; [[Henry II, Duke of Lorraine]] (b. [[1563]])
* [[August 4]] &ndash; [[Emanuel Filibert of Savoy]], Viceroy of Sicily (b. [[1588]])
* [[August 21]] &ndash; [[Francesco Andreini]], Italian actor (b. c. [[1548]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Anne MacNeil|title=Music and Women of the Commedia dell' Arte|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2003|isbn=9780198166894|page=48}}</ref>
* [[August 25]] &ndash; [[Luis Sotelo]], Spanish Franciscan friar (b. [[1574]])
* September &ndash; [[Marco Antonio de Dominis]], Dalmatian archbishop and apostate (b. [[1560]])
* [[September 13]] &ndash; [[Ketevan the Martyr]], queen of Kakheti (b. c. [[1560]])
* [[September 17]] &ndash; [[Gilles du Monin]], Belgian Jesuit historian (b. [[1565]])
* [[September 18]] &ndash; [[Pedro Osores de Ulloa]], Royal Governor of Chile (b. [[1554]])
* [[September 23]] &ndash; [[Willem Pieterszoon Buytewech]], Dutch Golden Age painter (b. [[1592]])
* [[September 25]] &ndash; [[Fronton du Duc]], French Jesuit theologian (b. [[1558]])
* [[September 29]] &ndash; [[Simón de Rojas]], Spanish saint (b. [[1552]])

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[November 2]] &ndash; [[Cornelis van der Voort]], Dutch painter (b. [[1576]])
* [[November 5]] &ndash; [[James Wriothesley, Lord Wriothesley]], English politician (b. [[1605]])
* [[November 10]] &ndash; [[Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton]], English patron of the theatre (b. [[1573]])
* [[November 13]] &ndash; [[Thomas van Erpe]], Dutch Orientialist, cartographer (b. [[1584]])
* [[November 14]] &ndash; [[Costanzo Antegnati]], Italian composer, organist (b. [[1549]])
* [[November 15]] &ndash; [[Caius of Korea]], Japanese martyr (b. [[1571]])
* [[November 17]] &ndash; [[Jakob Böhme]], German mystic (b. [[1575]])
* [[December 5]] &ndash; [[Gaspard Bauhin]], Swiss botanist (b. [[1560]])
* [[December 6]] &ndash; [[Francesco Contarini]], Doge of Venice (b. [[1556]])
* [[December 9]] &ndash; [[Flaminio Scala]], Italian playwright and stage actor (b. [[1552]])
* [[December 14]] &ndash; [[Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham]], English statesman (b. [[1536]])
* [[December 15]] &ndash; [[Jerónimo Bautista Lanuza]], Spanish friar, bishop and writer (b. [[1533]])
* [[December 25]]
** [[Hajikano Masatsugu]], Japanese samurai (b. [[1545]])
** [[Catherine of Nassau-Dillenburg]], German noble (b. [[1543]])
* [[December 28]] &ndash; [[Charles of Austria, Bishop of Wroclaw]], Prince-bishop of Wroclaw (b. [[1590]])
* [[December 29]] &ndash; [[Dermod O'Brien, 5th Baron Inchiquin]], Irish baron (b. [[1594]])

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