- Sep 14 Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Dutch lawyer and statesman, born in Amersfoort, Netherlands (d. 1619)
- Sep 16 Abu al-Faiz ibn Mubarak Faizi, Persian-Dutch East Indies poet, born in Agra, Mughal India (d. 1595)
- Sep 22 Philipp Nikodemus Frischlin, German philologist and poet (d. 1590)
Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
Sep 29 Spanish author (Don Quixote), born in Alcalá de Henares, Habsburg Spain
