- Mar 21 Ferdinand van Boisschot, Dutch diplomat, jurist and Chancellor of Brabant (1625-49), born in Brussels (d. 1649)
Guy Fawkes (1570-1606)
Apr 13 English Catholic conspirator who was convicted in the "Gunpowder Plot" to blow up the British Parliament, born in York, England
- Oct 4 Péter Pázmány, Hungarian cardinal and statesman, born in Nagyvárad, Principality of Transylvania (d. 1637)
- Oct 21 Wolfgang Schonsleder, German composer (Missa super Laudate), born in Munich, Duchy of Bavaria (now Germany) (d. 1651)
- Nov 28 James Whitelocke, English judge and politician (House of Common 1610-22) (d. 1632)