Events

• October 25 — Dirk Hartog makes the second recorded landfall by a European on Australian soil, at an island off the Western Australian coast
• Pocahontas arrives in England
• War between Venice and Austria
• Collegium Musicum founded in Prague
• Nicolaus Copernicus' De revolutionibus is placed on the Index of Forbidden Books by the Roman Catholic Church

Births

• January 13 - Antoinette Bourignon, Flemish mystic (d. 1680)
• January 16 - François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort, French soldier (d. 1669)
• May 18 - Johann Jakob Froberger, German composer (d. 1667)
• May 24 - John Maitland, Duke of Lauderdale, (d. 1682)
• May 25 - Carlo Dolci, Italian artist, (d. 1686)
• October 11 - Andreas Gryphius, German writer (d. 1664)
• October 20 - Thomas Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian (d. 1680)
• November 22 - John Wallis, English mathematician, (d. 1703)
• William Sancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1693)

Deaths

• January 6 - Philip Henslowe, English theatre manager
• April 23 (N.S.) - Miguel Cervantes, Spanish author (b. 1547)
• April 23 (O.S.) - William Shakespeare, English playwright and poet (b. 1564)
• June 1 - Tokugawa Ieyasu, Japanese shogun (b. 1543)
• July 20 - Hugh O'Neill, 3rd Earl of Tyrone, Irish soldier
• July 25 - Andreas Libavius, German physician and chemist (b. 1550)
• August 7 - Vincenzo Scamozzi, Italian architect (b. 1548)
• October 23 - Leonhard Hutter, German theologian (b. 1563)
• November 23 - Richard Hakluyt, English writer
• Alexander Whitaker, Virginia Colony religious leader (drowned) (b. 1585)
• Tang Xianzu, Chinese playwright and poet (b. 1550)

See also Category:1616 deaths.

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