- Apr 27 Robert Abercromby, Scottish Jesuit missionary, dies at 77
- Aug 7 Thomas Fleming, English judge (b. 1544)
- 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, lexicographer, dies at 74
- Nov 16 Trajano Boccalini, Italian satirist (b. 1556)
- Nov 23 Charles Philip of Croij, marquis of Havre/earl of Fontenoy, dies at 64