Famous Deaths in 1603

  • Jan 5 Pieter Adriaansz van der Werff, mayor of Lead, dies at 73
  • Feb 23 Andrea Cesalpino, Italian philosopher, physician and botanist, dies at 83

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Mar 24 Elizabeth I Tudor [Virgin Queen], Queen of England and Ireland (1558-1603) and daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, dies at 69

Queen of England and Ireland Elizabeth I
Queen of England and Ireland
Elizabeth I
  • Mar 25 Ikoma Chikamasa, Japanese warlord (b. 1526)
  • Jun 27 Jan Dymitr Solikowski, Polish archbishop and diplomat (b. 1539)
  • Jul 4 Philippus the Monte, priest/bandmaster/composer, dies at 82
  • Aug 16 Silvio Antoniano, Italian cardinal/theologist (Tre libri), dies at 62
  • Sep 8 George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon, English politician (b. 1547)
  • Nov 5 Irini Fedorovna, Russian daughter of Boris Godunov, dies
  • Nov 16 Pierre Charron, French philosopher/theologian, dies
  • Nov 18 Elisabeth van Nassau, daughter of Willem & Juliana van Stolberg, dies at 61
  • Nov 30 William Gilbert, English physician and physicist (researcher into magnetism), dies probably of the plague at 59
  • Dec 4 Maarten de Vos, Flemish painter, dies at about 71
  • Dec 9 William Watson, English conspirator (b. 1559)
  • Dec 13 François Viète, French mathematician dies in Paris (b. 1540)
  • Dec 22 Mehmed III, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1595-1603), dies at 37
  • Dec 27 Thomas Cartwright, English Presbyterian publicist, dies at about 68