- Jan 12 François Duquesnoy, French sculptor (d. 1643)
- Jan 31 John Francis Regis, French saint (d. 1640)
- Feb 24 Vincent Voiture, French poet (d. 1648)
- Mar 1 Jean-Charles de la Faille, Belgian mathematician (d. 1652)
- Apr 9 John Davenport, Puritan clergyman and cofounder of the New Haven Colony, born in Coventry, Warwickshire, England (d. 1670)
- Jun 9 Pieter Jansz Saenredam, Dutch architecture painter, born in Assendelft
- Jul 22 Virgilio Mazzocchi, Italian composer, born in Veja (d. 1646)
- Jul 31 Sebastian Stosskopf, Elzassisch painter, baptized
- Aug 21 Roger Twysden, English antiquarian and royalist, born in East Peckham, Kent, England (d. 1672)
- Nov 19 Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate, Electress consort of Brandenburg as the wife of George William, born in Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, Bavaria (d. 1660)
- Dec 23 Martin Opitz, German poet "Father of Modern German Poetry", born in Bunzlau, Silesia (d. 1639)