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Events
Works
Births
- February 2 - Anna Visscher, Dutch artist, poet, and translator (died 1651)
- date unknown
- Pietro Francesco Alberti, Italian painter and engraver for the late-Renaissance and early-Baroque periods (died 1638)
- Giovanni Andrea Ansaldo, Italian painter active mainly in Genoa (died 1638)
- Giacomo Apollonio, Italian painter of the late-Renaissance and early-Baroque periods (died 1654)
- David Bailly, Leiden artist (died 1657)
- Cesare Bassano, Italian painter and engraver (died 1648)
- Jean de Beaugrand, French lineographer and mathematician (died 1640)
- Pieter de Valck, Dutch Golden Age painter (died 1625)
- Cornelis de Vos, Flemish Baroque painter (died 1651)
- Rafael Sadeler II, Flemish engraver of the Sadeler family (died 1627/1632)
- Shōkadō Shōjō, Japanese Edo period Buddhist monk, painter, calligrapher and master of the tea ceremony (died 1639)
- Jan Tengnagel, Dutch painter (died 1631)
- Jacob van der Laemen, Flemish painter (died 1624)
- probable
Deaths
- January 4 - Tobias Stimmer, Swiss painter and illustrator (born 1539)
- January 30 - Pieter Pourbus, Dutch-born Flemish Renaissance painter (born 1523)
- May 25 - Prospero Spani, Italian sculptor (born 1516)
- date unknown
- Pieter Balten - Flemish Renaissance painter (born 1525)
- Jacques I Androuet du Cerceau, architect, sculptor, designer (born 1510)
- Giovanni Filippo Criscuolo, Italian painter (born c.1500)
- Jacques du Broeucq, Dutch sculptor and architect (born c.1505)
- Lucas de Heere, Flemish portrait painter, poet and writer (born 1534)
- Hu Zhengyan, Chinese artist, printmaker, calligrapher and publisher (died 1674)
- Pierre Reymond, French enamelist (born 1513)
- Ludger Tom Ring the Younger, German painter and draughtsman (born 1522)
- probable
