Events

• February 27 - Henry IV is crowned King of France at Rheims.
• March 21 - Henry IV enters his capital of Paris for the first time.

Births

• February 19 - Henry, Prince of Wales, the eldest son of King James VI of Scotland/James I of England and Anne of Denmark.
• May 29 - Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, general.
• June 15 - Nicolas Poussin, French painter.
• December 9 - Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden
• Jean Louis Guez de Balzac, French author.
• Stephen Marshall, English Nonconformist divine.
• John Bramhall, English Anglican divine and controversialist.

Deaths

• February 2 - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Italian composer of Renaissance music.
• May 31 - Tintoretto, Italian painter
• June - John Aylmer, Bishop of London.
• June 14 - Orlande de Lassus, Franco-Flemish composer of religious and secular music.
• October 16 - William Allen, English cardinal.
• November 22 - Sir Martin Frobisher, British seaman.
• December 2 - Gerardus Mercator, Flemish cartographer.
• Ferdinando Stanley, 5th Earl of Derby
• Christina, the second daughter of Charles IX of Sweden and Christina of Holstein-Gottorp.
• Thomas Kyd English playwright.