- May 26 Mehmed III, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1595-1603), born in Manisa, Ottoman Empire (d. 1603)
James I and VI (1566-1625)
Jun 19 King James VI of Scotland (1567-1625) and James I of England and Ireland (1603-25), born in Edinburgh, Scotland
Sigismund III Vasa (1566-1632)
Jun 20 King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania (1587-1632) and King of Sweden (1592-99), born in Gripsholm Castle, Sweden
- Aug 12 Isabella Clara Eugenia, Sovereign of the Netherlands (1598-1621), born in Palacio de Valsaín, Segovia, Spain (d. 1633)
- Oct 13 Richard Boyle, Irish politician, 1st Earl of Cork, born in Canterbury, Kent, England (d. 1643)
- Dec 1 Philip, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg, governor of Ft Gorinchem and Nijmegen (d. 1695)
- Dec 20 Edward Wightman, English radical Anabaptist, born in Burton upon Trent (d. 1612)