Hugo Grotius (1583-1645)
Apr 10 Dutch jurist, father of international law, born in Delft, Holland
- Jun 16 Axel Oxenstierna, Swedish statesman (Lord High Chancellor and regent of Sweden), born in Fånö, Sweden (d. 1654)
- Jun 20 Jacob De la Gardie, Swedish soldier and statesman (1st Governor-General of Swedish Livonia), born in Reval (Tallinn), Swedish Estonia (d. 1652)
- Aug 27 Simon Besler, German composer, born in Brieg, Silesia (now Brzeg, Poland) (d. 1633)
- Sep 9 Girolamo Frescobaldi, Italian keyboard virtuoso (organist at St. Peter's Basilica, 1608-28 and 1634-43), and late Renaissance/early Baroque composer, born in Ferrara, Duchy of Ferrara (now Italy) (d. 1643)
Albrecht von Wallenstein (1583-1634)
Sep 24 Bohemian-German general and statesman (Thirty Years' War), born in Heřmanice, Kingdom of Bohemia in the Holy Roman Empire
- Sep 29 John VIII, the Younger, Count of Nassau-Siegen and field marshal, born in Dillenburg (d. 1638)
- Nov 24 Juan de Jáuregui, Spanish poet, scholar and painter of the Spanish Golden Age, born in Seville, Andalusia, Spain (d. 1641)
- Dec 25 Orlando Gibbons, English composer (O Clap Your Hands), baptized in Oxford, England (d. 1625)
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