[edit] Events

[edit] Publications

[edit] Births

• January 9 (baptized) - Christoph Buel, German composer
• January 17 - Robert Fludd, English composer and writer (died 1637)
• March 7 (baptized) - John Wilbye, English madrigal composer (died 1638)
• May 14 - Francesco Rasi, Italian tenor (died 1621)
• July 8 (baptized) - Giovanni Battista Stefanini, Italian composer
• September 2 (baptized) - Georg Leopold Fuhrmann, German lutenist, engraver, printer, editor and publisher
• September 27 (baptized) - Jean Dufon, Flemish composer and singer
• Francis Tregian the Younger, English recusant and musician, possible compiler of the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book
• Claudio Pari, Italian composer

[edit] Deaths

• November - Robert White, English composer
• March - Giovanni Contino, Italian composer
• March 5 - Pedro Fernández, Spanish composer
• Jean Guyon, French composer of chansons
• Antonfrancesco Doni - Italian writer, academic and musician