- Feb 3 Paul Melissus [Paul Schede], German poet/composer, dies at 62
- Feb 13 Alexander Nowell, English churchman, dean of St Paul's, dies
- Feb 19 Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercoeur, French soldier, dies at 43
- Feb 25 Everard van Reyd, Dutch historian, dies at about 51
- Mar 11 Emilio de' Cavalieri, Italian composer
- Mar 22 Agostino Carracci, Italian artist (Communion of St. Jerome), dies at 44
- Sep 25 Caspar Peucer, German reformer (b. 1525)
- Oct 1 Hernando de Cabezon, Spanish composer, dies at 61
- Oct 23 Franciscus Junius, French-Dutch calvinist theologist and vicar, dies at 57
- Oct 30 Jean-Jacques Boissard, French poet (b. 1528)
- Dec 1 Kobayakawa Hideaki, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1582)
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