Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Mary Arden Shakespeare, the mother of William Shakespeare, died this year (born c. 1540)
Henry Peacham the younger, The More the Merrier: Containing: threescore and odde haad-lesse epigrams
Samuel Rowlands, Humors Looking Glasse
Robert Tofte, Ariosto's Satyres (authorship is claimed by Tofte in The Blazon of Jealousie (1615) although Gervase Markham's name is on the title page)
June – Sir Richard Fanshawe (died 1666), English diplomat, translator, and poet
December 8 – Vendela Skytte (died 1629), Swedish poet and lady of letters
December 9 – John Milton (died 1674), English poet and writer
December 20 (bapt.) – Sir Aston Cokayne (died 1684), English poet and playwright
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Menahem Lonzano (born unknown), Palestinian Masoretic and midrashic scholar, lexicographer and poet
Vaman Pandit (died 1695), Marathi scholar and poet of India
Samarth Ramdas (died 1681), Marathi saint and religious poet
Tukaram (died 1650), Sant (Saint) and spiritual poet during a Bhakti movement
Chen Zilong (died 1647), Chinese poet of the Tang School
February 16 – Nicolas Rapin (born 1535), French magistrate, royal officer, translator, poet and satirist
February 26 – Sir Thomas Craig (born c. 1538), Scottish jurist and poet
April 19 – Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset (born 1536), English statesman and poet
July 26 – Pablo de Céspedes (born 1538), Spanish painter, poet and architect
October 26 – Philipp Nicolai (born 1556), German poet and composer
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George Bannatyne (born 1545), Scottish collector of poems
Henry Lok (born c. 1553), English
Nicolas de Montreux (born c 1561), French nobleman, novelist, poet, translator and dramatist
Jean Vauquelin de la Fresnaye (born 1536), French
Andrzej Zbylitowski (born 1565), Polish
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