- Mar 18 Manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (d. 1649)
- Apr 18 Ahmed I, 14th Sultan of the Ottoman Emperor (1603-17); constructed the Blue Mosque, born in Manisa Palace, Manisa, Ottoman Empire (d. 1617)
- May 12 Cosimo II de Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1621)
- Jun 24 Samuel Ampzing, Dutch poet (Taelbericht der Neth Spellinge), born in Haarlem, Netherlands (d. 1632)
- Jul 13 Clement X [Emilio Altieri], Italian Pope (1670-76), born in Rome (d. 1676)
- Aug 19 Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland, English soldier, born in Stratford-atte-Bow, Middlesex (d. 1649)
- Nov 4 Gerard van Honthorst, Dutch painter, born in Utrecht, Netherlands (d. 1656)