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[[File:The Gunpowder Plot Conspirators, 1605 from NPG.jpg|thumb|300px|[[November 5]]: The [[Gunpowder Plot]] of Guy Fawkes to bomb Parliament is foiled]]
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[[File:The Red Hall, Bourne - geograph.org.uk - 1575134.jpg|thumb|right|The Red Hall, [[Bourne, Lincolnshire|Bourne]], England, dating from 1605<ref name=NH>{{National Heritage List for England|grade=II|num=1259132|desc=The Red Hall|access-date=April 6, 2013}}</ref>]]
== Events ==
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=== January–March ===
* [[January 1]] – [[William Shakespeare]]'s play ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream]]'', copyrighted 1600, is given its earliest recorded performance, and witnessed by the [[Dudley Carleton, 1st Viscount Dorchester|Viscount Dorchester]].<ref> ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'', ed. by R. A. Foakes (Cambridge University Press, 1984) p. 12</ref>
* [[January 7]] – Shakespeare's play ''[[Henry V (play)|Henry V]]'', copyrighted 1600, is given its earliest recorded performance, presented by the Lord Chamberlain's Men for [[James VI and I|King James I of England]].<ref>''Henry V'', ''The Oxford Shakespeare'', ed. by Gary Taylor (Oxford University Press, 1982) p. 9</ref> 
* [[January 15]] –  Shakespeare's play ''[[Love's Labour's Lost]]'', copyrighted 1598, is given its second recorded performance, probably presented at the home of the [[Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton|Earl of Southampton]] for [[Anne of Denmark|Queen Anne]], wife of King James I of England.<ref> ''Love's Labour's Lost'', in ''The New Cambridge Shakespeare'', ed. by William C. Carroll (Cambridge University Press, 2009) pp. 37–38</ref>
* [[January 16]] – The first part of [[Miguel de Cervantes]]' satire on the theme of [[chivalry]], ''[[Don Quixote]]'' (''El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha'', "The Ingenious [[Hidalgo (nobility)|Hidalgo]] Don Quixote of [[La Mancha]]"), is published in [[Madrid]]. One of the first significant [[novel]]s in the western literary tradition, it becomes a global bestseller almost at once.<ref>{{cite book|author=R. M. Flores|title=Sancho Panza Through Three Hundred Seventy-five Years of Continuations, Imitations, and Criticism, 1605-1980|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AIZRAQAAIAAJ|year=1982|publisher=Juan de la Cuesta|isbn=978-0-936388-06-9|page=1|language=en}}</ref>
* [[February 3]] – The [[1605 Keichō earthquake]], of estimated 7.9 magnitude, strikes [[Japan]] south of the island of [[Honshu]], and triggers a [[tsunami]] that washes away hundreds of houses and kills thousands of people.
* [[February 10]] – Shakespeare's play ''[[The Merchant of Venice]]'' is given its earliest recorded performance, presented by the King's Men players at the [[Palace of Whitehall]] for King James I of England. A second performance is given on February 12, Shrove Tuesday, at the King's request.<ref>The ''Merchant of Venice'' in ''The Arden Shakespeare, Third Series'', ed. by John Drakakis  (Bloomsbury, 2010) p. 113</ref>
* [[February 21]] – [[Stephen Bocskai]] is elected [[Prince of Transylvania]] at the capital, [[Alba Iulia|Belugrad]] (modern-day Alba Iulia in [[Romania]].)
* [[February 25]] – Admiral [[Steven van der Hagen]] leads a fleet of ships for the [[Dutch East India Company]] and makes the first capture of land for the Netherlands in what will become the Dutch East Indies, and later Indonesia. Hagen's men capture the Portuguese citadel of [[Fort Victoria (Ambon)|Forte Amboino]] and the rest of [[Ambon Island]], and make it the capital of the Dutch possessions in Asia.
* [[March 11]] – A proclamation declares all people of Ireland to be the direct subjects of the [[British Crown]] and not of any local lord or chief.<ref name=CIH>{{cite book|editor=Moody, T. W.|title=A New History of Ireland. '''8''': A Chronology of Irish History|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1989|isbn=978-0-19-821744-2|display-editors=etal}}</ref> 
* [[March 3]] – [[Pope Clement VIII]] dies at the age of 69 after a reign of 13 years.
* [[March 14]] – The [[March–April 1605 papal conclave]] of Roman Catholic cardinals to elect a successor to Pope Clement VIII opens at the Vatican in [[Rome]], 11 days after Clement's death. Sixty-one of the 69 [[Cardinal electors for the March–April 1605 papal conclave|cardinals]] meet behind closed doors for the rest of the month. Discussion becomes heated, with shouting and jostling.

=== April–June ===
* [[April 1]] – Cardinal Alessandro Ottaviano de' Medici, the [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Pistoia|Bishop of Pistoia]], is elected by the assembled 61 cardinals at the [[March–April 1605 papal conclave|papal conclave]] after 17 days of balloting. He takes the regnal name of [[Pope Leo XI]] to become the 232nd pope, but serves for less than four weeks.<ref>{{cite book|title=Recusant History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XLYvAQAAIAAJ|year=1964|publisher=Catholic Record Society|page=79|language=en}}</ref>
* [[April 8]] – The city of [[Oulu]] ({{langx|sv|Uleåborg}}) is founded by King [[Charles IX of Sweden]].<ref>[https://seura.fi/matkailu/torilla-tavataan-oulun-rikas-kulttuuritarjonta-hellii-kaiken-ikaisia-silla-tapahtumia-ja-festivaaleja-on-tarjolla-lapi-vuoden/ Torilla tavataan! Oulun rikas kulttuuritarjonta hellii matkailijaa, sillä tapahtumia ja festivaaleja on tarjolla läpi vuoden] – ''[[Seura]]'' (in Finnish)</ref>
* [[April 13]] – Tsar [[Boris Godunov]] dies; [[Feodor II of Russia|Feodor II]] accedes to the [[Tsardom of Russia|Russian]] throne.
* [[April 16]]
**[[Tokugawa Ieyasu]] abdicates as [[shogun]] of [[Japan]], becoming ''Ogosho'' (retired shogun). His son [[Tokugawa Hidetada]] succeeds him to the office.<ref>"Cases of Tensho, Bunroku, and Keicho periods, the appointment of samurai families and the granting of the Toyotomi surname", by Kohei Murakawa, ''Komazawa Shigaku'' (2013) pp. 112-129</ref>
**In England, [[John Winthrop]], later governor of the future [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]], marries his first wife (of 4), Mary Forth, daughter of John Forth, of [[Great Stambridge]], [[Essex]].
* [[April 27]] – Pope Leo XI dies suddenly from a cold at the age of 69, after a reign of only 26 days, prompting the return of the cardinals for [[May 1605 papal conclave|the second papal conclave in less than two months]]. During his brief reign, the Pope issued a bill requiring secret balloting in papal conclaves.
* [[May 8]] – A group of 59 Roman Catholic cardinals assemble at Rome for another [[Papal conclave, May 1605|papal conclave]] to elect a successor to Pope Leo XI. During the meeting, a fistfight breaks out among the cardinals over the two rival candidates, [[Antonio Sauli]] and [[Domenico Toschi]], neither of whom receive the necessary 40 votes for a two-thirds election. In the fight, Cardinal [[Alfonso Visconti]] sustains several fractures.<ref>Frederic J. Baumgartner, ''Behind Locked Doors: A History of the Papal Elections'' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003) p. 141</ref>
* [[May 16]] – Camillo Borghese, Cardinal Vicar of Rome and cardinal-priest of [[Sant'Eusebio]] is elected the 233rd pope, and takes the name of [[Pope Paul V]]. Another "[[Year of Three Popes]]" will not occur until 373 years later, in 1978. Borghese is elected as a compromise candidate after the physical disagreements during the conclave.<ref>{{cite book|author=Tyler Lansford|title=The Latin Inscriptions of Rome: A Walking Guide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0DPzpiQqiFsC&pg=PA513|date=17 July 2009|publisher=JHU Press|isbn=978-0-8018-9149-6|pages=513|language=en}}</ref>
* [[June 1]] – Russian troops in Moscow imprison [[Feodor II of Russia|Feodor II]] and his mother, later executing them.
* [[June 20]] – Pretender [[False Dmitriy I|Dmitriy]] and his supporters, including troops of the [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]], march to Moscow.<ref name=Russia>{{cite book|title=Political History and Culture of Russia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3N6NAAAAMAAJ|year=2001|publisher=Nova Science Publishers|page=237|language=en}}</ref>

=== July–September ===
* [[July 4]] – A proclamation commands all [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] [[seminary]] priests and [[Jesuits]] to leave Ireland by December 10 and directs the laity to attend [[Church of Ireland]] services.<ref name=CIH/>
* [[July 13]] – The [[1605 Guangdong earthquake]], of 7.5 magnitude, strikes [[China]]'s [[Hainan Province]] causing widespread damage and thousands of deaths.
* [[July 21]] – Claiming to be Dmitriy, son of Ivan the Terrible, a pretender is officially crowned [[Tsar]] [[False Dmitriy I|Dimitriy Ioannovich]] of Russia in Moscow by [[Ignatius of Moscow|Patriarch Ignatius]].
* [[August 14]] – A Spanish attack on the Moorish fortress of [[Hammamet, Tunisia|Hammamet]], in [[Ottoman Tunisia]], ends in a disaster for the Spaniards. Although Spanish troops had managed to scale the walls and open the gates, they are suddenly ordered to retreat and are massacred while waiting on the coast for the return of the ships that brought them. 
* [[August 19]] – [[Eighty Years' War]]: The [[Siege of Lingen (1605)|siege of the Dutch city of Lingen]], by 13,000 Spanish troops and 3,000 cavalry, ends with the surrender of Captain Maerten Cobben after nine days of defense. Although the Dutch Republic's stadtholder, [[Maurice, Prince of Orange]], had proclaimed that Lingen must be held at all costs, Dutch troops failed to come to Cobben's aid and Don [[Ambrogio Spinola]] of Spain peacefully takes control of the city.<ref>Olaf Van Nimwegen, ''The Dutch Army and the Military Revolutions 1588-1688'' (The Boydell Press, 2010) p. 191</ref>
* [[September 27]] – [[Sweden|Swedish]] armies are decisively defeated by [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]] cavalry in the [[Battle of Kircholm]].

=== October–December ===
* [[October 27]] – The 3rd [[Mughal Emperor]], [[Akbar]] "the Great", dies of [[dysentery]] at [[Fatehpur Sikri]] in India. 
* [[October 28]] – [[Eighty Years' War]]: [[Spanish Empire|Spanish]] troops under [[Ambrogio Spinola, 1st Marquess of Los Balbases]], Captain-General of the [[Army of Flanders]] (newly appointed a Knight of the [[Order of the Golden Fleece]]), occupy [[Wachtendonk]] after a 20-day siege.
* [[October]]
** The first issue of ''[[Relation aller Fürnemmen und gedenckwürdigen Historien]]'' by [[Johann Carolus]] in [[Strasbourg]] ([[Holy Roman Empire]]), generally regarded as the world's first [[newspaper]], is published.<ref>{{cite book|title=Timeline of History|year=2011|publisher=DK Publishing|isbn=978-0-7566-8681-9|page=203}}</ref> ''De Nieuwe Tijdinghen'', a Dutch proto-newspaper, is also published this year.
** [[Francis Bacon]]'s ''[[The Advancement of Learning|Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Human]]'' is published in London.
* [[November 3]] – [[Jahangir]], the fourth Mughal Emperor, begins his 22-year reign over the [[Mughal Empire]] in northern India.
* [[November 5]] ([[Old Style and New Style dates|O.S.]]) – The [[Gunpowder Plot]], a scheme to bomb England's [[Palace of Westminster]] during the opening of Parliament, is foiled after Sir [[Thomas Knyvet, 1st Baron Knyvet|Thomas Knyvet]] is tipped off, and finds Catholic plotter [[Guy Fawkes]] in a cellar below the Parliament building. Knyvet orders a search of the area and 36 barrels of [[gunpowder]] are found. Fawkes is arrested for trying to assassinate [[James I of England|King James I]] and the members who had been scheduled to sit together in Parliament the next day.<ref>{{cite book|author=Christopher Culpin|title=Crime and Punishment Through Time: A Study in Development in Crime, Punishment and Protest for SHP and Other GCSE Syllabuses|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PvNWAAAAYAAJ|year=1997|publisher=Collins Educational|isbn=978-0-00-327321-2|pages=45|language=en}}</ref>
* [[November 6]] – The Iranian Safavid ruler [[Abbas the Great]] leads the Persian troops to a victory over a larger force of Ottoman Empire troops in the [[Battle of Sufiyan]], and captures [[Tabriz]].<ref>''Shah Abbas: The Ruthless King Who Became an Iranian Legend'' (I.B. Tauris & Co., 2009) p. 81</ref>  
* [[December 6]] – In England, [[Thomas Bonham (physician)|Thomas Bonham]] petitions to become a member of the College of Physicians in order for his practice to be legal, and is rejected. Dr. Bonham continues to practice, and is eventually imprisoned on November 13, 1606, leading to the landmark decision in ''[[Dr. Bonham's Case]]'' in 1610.
* [[December 11]] – [[Sigismund III Vasa|King Sigismund III]] of [[Poland]] marries his former sister-in-law, [[Constance of Austria|Constance]], daughter of [[Charles II, Archduke of Austria]], after [[Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor]] refuses to permit the King to marry [[Anna of Tyrol]]. King Sigismund, a widow, had previously been married to Constance's older sister, [[Anne of Austria, Queen of Poland|Anne]].
* [[December 21]] – On behalf of Spain, Portuguese navigator [[Pedro Fernandes de Queirós]] begins his expedition to the South Pacific Ocean with 160 men on three ships. Queiros departs from [[Callao]] in the [[Viceroyalty of Peru]] with his flagship, ''San Pedro y San Pablo'', and ''San Pedro'' and ''Los Tres Reyes''.

=== Date unknown ===
* [[Habitation at Port-Royal]] established by France under [[Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Mons]], the first European colonization of [[Nova Scotia]] in North America (at this time part of [[Acadia]]); the [[Gregorian calendar]] is adopted.
* Crew of the ''Olive'' become the first English visitors to [[Barbados]].
* Refugee French [[Huguenot]] merchants begin to settle in [[Dublin]] and [[Waterford]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Huguenot Timeline|url=http://www.genealogyforum.com/gfaol/resource/Huguenot/hug0006.htm|work=Genealogy Forum|location=Armada, Michigan|access-date=November 19, 2013|date=January 2006|archive-date=January 17, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120117082451/http://www.genealogyforum.com/gfaol/resource/Huguenot/hug0006.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* The Priory of St. Gregory's is founded at [[Douai]], [[Flanders]], at this time in the [[Spanish Netherlands]], by its first [[Prior (ecclesiastical)|prior]], [[John Roberts (martyr)|John Roberts]], and other exiles, thus becoming the first English [[Benedictine]] house to renew conventual life after the [[English Reformation]]. More than two centuries later the community will establish [[Downside Abbey]] back in England.
* The [[Irish College in Paris]] is co-founded by John Lee, an Irish priest, and John de l'Escalopier, President of the [[Parlement]].
* Central Mexico's Amerindian population reaches one million.</onlyinclude>

== Births ==
[[File:Shahriyar, Indian School of the 17th century AD.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Shahryar (Mughal prince)|Shahryar]]]]
[[File:Portrait of Federico Ubaldo della Rovere by Claudio Ridolfi.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Federico Ubaldo della Rovere, Duke of Urbino]]]]
[[File:Simon Dach.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Simon Dach]]]]
[[File:明熹宗像.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Tianqi Emperor]]]]

===January–March===
* [[January 16]] – [[Shahryar (Mughal prince)|Shahryar]], fifth and youngest son of the [[Mughal Empire|Mughal Emperor]] [[Jahangir]] (d. [[1628]])
* [[January 17]] – [[Anthony Irby (died 1682)|Anthony Irby]], English politician (d. [[1682]])
* [[February 1]] – [[Isaac Aboab da Fonseca]], Portuguese Sephardic rabbi (d. [[1693]])
* [[February 17]] – [[Luca Ferrari]], Italian painter (d. [[1654]])
* [[February 18]]
** [[Juan de Almoguera]], Roman Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Lima (1673–1676) and Bishop of Arequipa (1659–1673) (d. [[1676]])
** [[Abraham Ecchellensis]], Lebanese Maronite philosopher (d. [[1664]])
* [[February 20]] – [[Sir John Lowther, 1st Baronet, of Lowther]], English politician (d. [[1675]])
* [[March 1]] – [[James Wriothesley, Lord Wriothesley]], English politician (d. [[1624]])
* [[March 2]] – [[René Menard]], Canadian explorer (d. [[1661]])
* [[March 3]] – [[George Horner (died 1677)|George Horner]], English politician (d. [[1677]])
* [[March 14]] – [[Francis Davies (bishop)|Francis Davies]], Welsh bishop (d. [[1675]])<ref>{{cite ODNB|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/7235|title=Davies, Francis (1605&ndash;1675), bishop of Llandaff|last=Roberts| first=Stephen K |date=January 2008|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/7235| access-date=17 September 2008}}</ref>
* [[March 17]] – [[George II, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt]] (1626–1661) (d. [[1661]])

===April–June===
* [[April 8]]
** King [[Philip IV of Spain]] (d. [[1665]])<ref>{{cite book|author=John Landwehr|title=Splendid Ceremonies; State Entries and Royal Funerals in the Low Countries, 1515-1791: A Bibliography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NNbfAAAAMAAJ|year=1971|publisher=De Graaf|isbn=978-90-6004-287-8|page=5|language=en}}</ref>
** [[Mary Stuart (1605–1607)|Mary Stuart]], English-Scottish princess (d. [[1607]])
* [[April 18]] – [[Giacomo Carissimi]], Italian composer (d. [[1674]])
* [[April 19]] – [[Orazio Benevoli]], Italian composer (d. [[1672]])
* [[April 30]] – [[Peder Winstrup]], Bishop of Lund (d. [[1679]])
* [[May 7]] – [[Patriarch Nikon of Moscow]], Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church (d. [[1681]])
* [[May 16]] – [[Federico Ubaldo della Rovere, Duke of Urbino]], Italian noble (d. [[1623]])
* [[May 29]] – [[Hendrick van Anthonissen]], Dutch painter (d. [[1656]])
* [[June 6]] – [[Peregrine Palmer]], English politician (d. [[1684]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1660-1690/member/palmer-peregrine-1605-84|title=PALMER, Peregrine (1605-84), of Fairfield, Stogursey, Som.|work=History of Parliament Online|author=Irene Cassidy|accessdate=25 December 2025}}</ref>
* [[June 15]] – [[Thomas Randolph (poet)|Thomas Randolph]], English poet and dramatist (d. [[1635]])
* [[June 22]] – [[Andrea Bolgi]], Italian sculptor (d. [[1656]])

===July–September===
* [[July 6]] – [[Ulrich II, Count of East Frisia]], ruler of East Frisia in the later years of the Thirty Years' War (d. [[1648]])
* [[July 25]] – [[Theodore Haak]], German scholar (d. [[1690]])
* [[July 29]] – [[Simon Dach]], Prussian German lyrical poet and writer of hymns (d. [[1659]])
* [[August 6]]
** [[Johann Philipp von Schönborn]], Archbishop-Elector of Mainz (1647– (d. [[1673]])
** [[Bulstrode Whitelocke]], English lawyer (d. [[1675]])
* [[August 8]] – [[Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore]], first Proprietor and Proprietary Governor of the Province of Maryland (d. [[1675]])
* [[August 18]] – [[Henry Hammond]], English churchman (d. [[1660]])
* [[August 25]] – [[Philipp Moritz, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg]], German noble (d. [[1638]])
* [[August 30]] – [[Felice Ficherelli]], Italian painter (d. [[1660]])
* [[August 31]] – [[Nicolas Talon]], French Jesuit (d. [[1691]])
* [[September 1]] – [[Michele Mazzarino]], Italian Catholic cardinal (d. [[1648]])
* [[September 8]] – [[Cornelis Jan Witsen]], Mayor of Amsterdam (d. [[1669]])
* [[September 12]] – [[William Dugdale]], English antiquary and herald (d. [[1686]])
* [[September 14]] – [[Brynjólfur Sveinsson]], Icelandic bishop and scholar (d. [[1675]])
* [[September 17]] – [[Francesco Sacrati]], Italian composer (d. [[1650]])
* [[September 24]] – [[Antoine Godeau]], French bishop and poet (d. [[1672]])
* [[September 28]] – [[Ismaël Bullialdus]], French astronomer (d. [[1694]])

===October–December===
* [[October 15]] – [[Marie de Bourbon, Duchess of Montpensier]], French princess (d. [[1627]])
* [[October 16]] – [[Charles Coypeau d'Assoucy]], French writer and composer (d. [[1677]])
* [[October 19]] – Sir [[Thomas Browne]], English physician and philosopher (d. [[1682]])
* [[October 22]] – [[Frédéric Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne]], prince of the independent [[principality of Sedan]] (d. [[1652]])
* [[November 3]] – [[John Henderson, 5th of Fordell]], Scottish noble (d. [[1650]])
* [[November 4]] – [[William Habington]], English poet (d. [[1654]])
* [[November 5]] – [[Thomas Shepard (minister)|Thomas Shepard]], American Puritan minister and a significant figure in early colonial New England (d. [[1649]])
* [[December 1]] – [[Roger Hill (judge)|Roger Hill]], English politician (d. [[1667]])
* [[December 8]] – [[François Vavasseur]], French writer (d. [[1681]])
* [[December 16]] – [[Jerome Weston, 2nd Earl of Portland]], English diplomat and landowner (d. [[1663]])
* [[December 23]] – [[Tianqi Emperor]], Ming emperor of China (d. [[1627]])
* [[December 25]] – [[Francis Godolphin (1605–1667)|Francis Godolphin]], English politician (d. [[1667]])

=== Date unknown ===
* [[William Berkeley (governor)|William Berkeley]], English governor of Virginia (d. [[1677]])
* [[Adriaen Brouwer]], Flemish painter (d. [[1638]])
* [[Aleksander Dominik Kazanowski]], Polish nobleman (d. [[1648]])
* [[Alexandra Mavrokordatou]], Greek intellectual and salonist (d. [[1684]])
* [[Afanasy Ordin-Nashchokin]], Russian statesman (d. [[1680]])
* [[Jean-Baptiste Tavernier]], French traveller and pioneer of trade with India (d. [[1689]])
* [[Constantia Zierenberg]], German-Polish singer (d. [[1653]])
* [[Thomas Hastings (colonist)|Thomas Hastings]], American politician (d. [[1685]])
* [[Johann Rudolf Stadler]], Swiss clock-maker (d. [[16 October]] [[1637]])<ref>{{cite web |last1=Lassner |first1=Martin |title=Johann Rudolf Stadler |url=https://hls-dhs-dss.ch/fr/articles/029418/2011-07-18/ |website=Dictionnaire historique de la Suisse (DHS) |access-date=13 April 2020 |language=fr |date=18 July 2011}}</ref>
* [[Ayşe Sultan (daughter of Ahmed I)|Ayşe Sultan]] and/or [[Gevherhan Sultan (daughter of Ahmed I)|Gevherhan Sultan]], Ottoman princesses, daughters of Ahmed I

=== Approximate date ===
* [[Semyon Dezhnev]], Pomor navigator (d. [[1672]])
* [[John Gauden]], English bishop and writer (d. [[1662]])
* [[William Goffe]], English parliamentarian and regicide (d. [[1679]])
* [[Thomas Nabbes]], English dramatist (d. c. [[1645]])
* [[Francis Willoughby, 5th Baron Willoughby of Parham]], English noble (d. [[1666]])

== Deaths ==
[[File:Papst Clemens VIII Italian 17th century.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Pope Clement VIII]]]]
[[File:Leo XI 2.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Pope Leo XI]]]]
[[File:Ulysse Aldrovandi.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Ulisse Aldrovandi]]]]
[[File:Theodore-de-Beze-2.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Theodore Beza]]]]

=== January–March ===
* [[January 16]] – [[Eitel Friedrich IV, Count of Hohenzollern]] (b. [[1545]])
* [[February 5]] – [[Edward Stafford (diplomat)|Edward Stafford]], English diplomat (b. [[1552]])
* [[February 15]] – [[Maria of Hanau-Münzenberg]], German noblewoman (b. [[1562]])
* [[February 19]] – [[Orazio Vecchi]], Italian composer (b. [[1550]])
* [[February 24]] – [[Girolamo Simoncelli]], Italian Catholic cardinal (b. [[1522]])
* [[February 26]] – [[George III, Count of Erbach-Breuberg]] (1564–1605) (b. [[1548]])
* [[March 5]] – [[Pope Clement VIII]] (b. [[1536]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Clement VIII {{!}} pope |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Clement-VIII-pope |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=14 January 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[March 12]] – King [[Alexander II of Kakheti]] (b. [[1527]])
* [[March 17]] – [[Pieter Bast]], Dutch cartographer, engraver and draftsman (b. [[1550]])

=== April–June ===
* [[April 5]] – [[Adam Loftus (bishop)|Adam Loftus]], English Catholic archbishop (b. c. [[1533]])
* [[April 6]] – [[John Stow]], English historian and antiquarian (b. [[1525]])
* [[April 10]] – [[Albrecht VII, Count of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt]] (b. [[1537]])
* [[April 13]] – [[Boris Godunov]], [[Tsar of Russia]] (b. [[1551]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Robert Auty|author2=Dimitri Obolensky|title=Companion to Russian Studies: Volume 1: An Introduction to Russian History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D0iVBLGd9xEC&pg=PA105|date=16 July 1981|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-28038-9|pages=105}}</ref>
* [[April 14]] – [[Francis Cherry (diplomat)|Francis Cherry]], English diplomat (b. [[1552]])
* [[April 25]] – [[Naresuan]], Siamese King of [[Ayutthaya kingdom]] (b. c. [[1555]])
* [[April 27]] – [[Pope Leo XI]] (b. [[1535]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Leo XI {{!}} pope |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leo-XI |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=6 May 2019 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[May 4]] – [[Ulisse Aldrovandi]], Italian naturalist (b. [[1522]])
* [[May 10]] – [[Casimir VI, Duke of Pomerania]], Lutheran Administrator of Cammin Prince-Bishopric (b. [[1557]])
* [[June 3]] – [[Jan Zamoyski]], Polish nobleman (b. [[1542]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Trevor Nevitt Dupuy|author2=Curt Johnson|author3=David L. Bongard|title=The Harper Encyclopedia of Military Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6Y4UAQAAIAAJ|year=1992|publisher=HarperCollins|isbn=978-0-06-270015-5|page=829}}</ref>
* [[June 9]] – [[John Louis II, Count of Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein]] (1596–1605) (b. [[1596]])
* [[June 20]] – Tsar [[Feodor II of Russia]] (b. [[1589]])<ref name=Russia/>

=== July–September ===
* [[July 2]] – [[Louis I, Count of Sayn-Wittgenstein]] (1588–1605) (b. [[1532]])
* [[July 18]] – [[Johann II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar]], German duke (b. [[1570]])
* [[July 26]] – Rev. Fr. [[Miguel de Benavides]], O.P., Spanish clergyman and sinologist (b. [[1552]])
* [[August 2]] – [[Richard Leveson (admiral)|Richard Leveson]], English admiral (b. c. [[1570]])
* [[August 4]] – [[Charles I, Duke of Elbeuf]], French duke and nobleman (b. [[1556]])
* [[September 9]] – [[Heinrich Khunrath]], German physician (b. [[1560]])
* [[September 11]] – [[Thomas Tresham (died 1605)|Sir Thomas Tresham]], English politician (b. [[1550]])
* [[September 14]] – [[Jan Tarnowski (1550–1605)|Jan Tarnowski]], Archbishop of Kraków (b. [[1550]])
* [[September 19]] – [[Edward Lewknor (died 1605)|Edward Lewknor]], English politician (b. [[1542]])
* [[September 23]] – [[Pontus de Tyard]], French poet (b. c. [[1521]])
* [[September 24]] – [[Manuel Mendes]], Portuguese composer (b. [[1547]])

=== October–December ===
* [[October 13]] – [[Theodore Beza]], French theologian (b. [[1519]])
* [[October 18]] – [[Beate Clausdatter Bille]], Danish noblewoman (b. [[1526]])
* [[October 22]] – King [[Constantine I of Kakheti]] (b. [[1567]])
* [[October 27]] – [[Akbar The Great]], [[Mughal emperor]] (b. [[1542]])
* [[October 30]] – [[George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland]], English noble (b. [[1558]])
* [[October 31]] – [[Dorothy Bray, Baroness Chandos]], English noble (b. [[1524]])
* [[November 5]] – [[Nyaungyan Min]], Burmese king (b. [[1555]])
* [[November 8]] – [[Robert Catesby]], English conspirator (b. [[1573]])
* [[November 9]] – [[Handan Sultan]], [[Valide Sultan]], mother of [[Ahmed I]] of [[Ottoman Empire]] (b.1568)
* [[November 12]] – [[Jan Tomasz Drohojowski]], Polish noble (b. [[1535]])
* [[November 14]] – [[Anna Maria of Anhalt]], German noblewoman (b. [[1561]])
* December – [[Francis Tresham]], English conspirator (b. [[1567]])
* [[December 3]] – [[Guy XX de Laval]], French noble (b. [[1585]])
* [[December 6]] – [[Murai Nagayori]], Japanese samurai (b. [[1543]])
* [[December 25]] – [[Marino Grimani (doge)|Marino Grimani]], Doge of Venice (b. [[1532]])
* [[December 29]] – [[John Davis (English explorer)|John Davis]], English explorer (b. [[1550]])

===Date unknown===
* [[Marek Sobieski]], Polish nobleman (b. [[1549]])

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