- Apr 27 Robert Abercromby, Scottish Jesuit missionary, dies at 77
- May 5 Johann Steuerlein, German composer, dies at 66
- Aug 7 Thomas Fleming, English judge (b. 1544)
- Aug 9 Giovanni Righi, Italian composer, dies at 36
- Aug 18 Giovanni Artusi, Italian composer
- Sep 8 Don Carlo Gesauldo, Italian composer, dies at 47
- Sep 15 Thomas Overbury, English poet (A Wife) and essayist, dies at 32
- Sep 20 Willem H van Est (Estius), theologist, dies
- Oct 8 Sebastian de Covarrubias bon Horozco, Spanish lexicographer, dies at 74
- Oct 22 Pomponio Nenna, Italian composer
- Nov 16 Trajano Boccalini, Italian satirist (b. 1556)
- Nov 23 Charles Philip of Croij, marquis of Havre, Earl of Fontenoy, dies at 64