- Feb 4 Pierre de Bérulle, French cardinal and mystic (founded Congregation of the French Oratory), born in Cérilly, France (d. 1629)
- Jun 26 Anne Catherine of Brandenburg, Queen of Denmark and Norway, born in Halle (Saale), Holy Roman Empire (now Germany) (d. 1612)
- Jul 25 Christoph Scheiner, German astronomer and physicist, born in Markt Wald, Germany (d. 1650)