- Jan 10 Nicholas Culpeper, English botanist, herbalist, physician, and astrologer (b. 1616)
- Jan 17 Paul Potter, Dutch painter, buried
- Feb 17 Michael Lohr, German composer, dies at 62
- Feb 18 Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac, French writer (b. 1594)
- Mar 24 Samuel Scheidt, German composer (Concertus sacri), dies at 66
- Apr 9 Matei Basarab, Prince of Wallachia (b. 1588)
- May 3 François de Kinschot, Dutch jurist and chancellor of Brabant, dies at 77
- Jun 7 Giambattista Andreini, Italian playwright and actor (L'adamo), dies at 76
- Jun 10 Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor and architect, dies at 58
- Jun 27 Johann Valentin Andreae, German theologian and writer (claimed to have written Rosicrucian text), dies at 67
- Jul 9 Ferdinand IV, King of the Romans, Bohemia and Hungary, dies of smallpox at 20
- Aug 12 Cornelis Haga, Dutch ambassador to Constantinople (1611-39), dies at 76
- Aug 19 Yom Tov Lipmann Heller, Bohemian rabbi and scholar (Tosefot Yom Tov), dies (b. c. 1579)
- Aug 28 Axel Oxenstierna, Swedish statesman (Lord High Chancellor and regent of Sweden), dies at 71
- Aug 31 Ole Worm, Danish physician, dies at 66
- Sep 8 Peter Claver, Spanish saint and Jesuit missionary in Cartagena, South America (baptized 300,000 slaves), dies (b. 1581)
- Sep 15 Cornelis Bicker, Dutch merchant, mayor of Amsterdam, dies at 61
- Oct 12 Carel Fabritius, Dutch painter (pupil of Rembrandt), injured in the Delft Explosion and later dies of his injuries at 32
- Oct 30 Emperor Go-Kōmyō, 110th emperor of Japan, dies at 21
- Oct 31 Francisco Correa de Arauxo, Spanish organ composer, dies at about 70
- Nov 30 John Selden, English jurist and oriental scholar, dies at 69
- Dec 5 Jean François Sarrazin, French writer
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