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Events
Births
- January 22 - Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher and scientist (d. 1655)
- March 28 - Jan Amos Komensky, Czech teacher
- August 28 - George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham
- December 6 - William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle
- Wilhelm Schickard, builder of the "Calculating Clock", mechanical machine
- Sir John Eliot, English statesman
- Peter Stuyvesant, last Dutch governor of New Netherlands
- Jacques Callot, French baroque graphics artist
- Nicholas Ferrar Involved in the London Virginia Company
- Hong Taiji, later Emperor of the Qing Dynasty of the Manchu
Deaths
- September 3 - Robert Greene, English playwright, poet, pamphleteer, and prose writer
- September 13 - Michel de Montaigne, French Renaissance thinker.
- November 27 - John III Vasa of Sweden
- Gunilla Bielke, second wife of John III Vasa. (approximately)
- Bartolomeo Ammanati, Florentine architect and sculptor.
- Thomas Cavendish, English sailor and explorer.
- December - Alessandro Farnese , Duke of Parma and Piacenza, great grandson of Pope Paul III and nephew of Philip II of Spain.
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