- Jan 5 Xu Xiake, Chinese geographer, born in Jiangsu, China (d. 1641)
- Jan 6 Gaspar de Guzman, Count of Olivares, Premier of Spain (1621-43), born in Rome, Italy (d. 1645)
- Jan 8 Johannes Fabricius, Danish astronomer (discovered sunspots), born in East Frisia, Germany (d. 1616)
- Jan 16 Alexander Adriaenssen, Flemish painter known for his still lifes of fish and game pieces, born in Antwerp (d. 1661)
- Feb 26 Stefano Landi, Italian opera composer (Il Sant'Alessio), and teacher, born in Rome, Papal States (d. 1639)
- Apr 17 Ivan Lukačić, Croatian composer, born in Šibenik, Croatia (d. 1648)
- May 8 Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy (1630-37), born in Turin, Piedmont, Savoy (d. 1637)
- Jun 2 Willem Bontekoe, Dutch sailor who published journal of his shipwreck in Indonesia aboard the Nieuw Hoorn, born in Hoorn, Holland (d. 1657)
- Aug 18 Virginia Dare, 1st English child born in the New World, born on Roanoke Island, North Carolina (fate unknown) [1]
- Sep 18 Francesca Caccini, Italian singer, composer (La liberazione di Ruggiero - widely believed to be oldest opera from a female composer), and teacher, born in Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany (now Italy) (d. after 1641)
- Nov 3 Samuel Scheidt, German baroque composer, born in Halle, Archbishopric of Magdeburg, Holy Roman Empire (now Germany) (d. 1654)
- Nov 16 Joost van den Vondel, Dutch poet and dramatist (Jephtha), born in Cologne, Germany (d. 1679)
- Nov 17 Louis de Geer, Walloon-Swedish entrepreneur, banker and pioneering industrialist, born in Liège, Belgium (d. 1652)
- Dec 25 Margarita of Austria, queen of Philip III of Spain (d. 1611)
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