Births

• January 9 (baptized) – Christoph Buel, German composer
• January 17 – Robert Fludd
  Robert Fludd
  Robert Fludd, also known as Robertus de Fluctibus was a prominent English Paracelsian physician, astrologer, mathematician, cosmologist, Qabalist, Rosicrucian apologist...
  
  , English composer and writer (died 1637)
• March 7 (baptized) – John Wilbye
  John Wilbye
  John Wilbye , was an English madrigal composer. The son of a tanner, he was born at Brome, Suffolk, near Diss, and received the patronage of the Cornwallis family. It is thought that he accompanied Elizabeth Cornwallis to Hengrave Hall near Bury St...
  
  , English madrigal composer (died 1638)
• May 14 – Francesco Rasi
  Francesco Rasi
  Francesco Rasi was an Italian composer, singer , chitarrone player, and poet.Rasi was born in Arezzo. He studied at the University of Pisa and in 1594 he was studying with Giulio Caccini. He may have been in Carlo Gesualdo's retinue when he went to Ferrara for his wedding in 1594...
  
  , 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
• date unknown
  • Andreas Hakenberger
    Andreas Hakenberger
    Andreas Hakenberger was a German composer.A motet Beati omnes, qui timent Dominum à 12 is recorded on Hanseatic Wedding music. Weser-Renaissance Ensemble Bremen dir. Manfred Cordes. cpo-References:...
    
    , composer (died 1627)
  • Francis Tregian the Younger
    Francis Tregian the Younger
    Francis Tregian the Younger was the son of the Catholic exile Francis Tregian the Elder .He was educated in France, and in 1592 obtained a position in Rome as chamberlain to Cardinal William Allen...
    
    , English recusant and musician, possible compiler of the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book
    Fitzwilliam Virginal Book
    The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book is a primary source of keyboard music from the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean periods in England, i.e., the late Renaissance and very early Baroque. It takes its name from Viscount Fitzwilliam who bequeathed this manuscript collection to Cambridge University in 1816...
    
    
  • Claudio Pari
    Claudio Pari
    Claudio Pari was a Sicilian composer, of Burgundian birth, of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. He was a competent madrigalist, well regarded by his peers, as well as a late representative of the musical style/ethos known as musica reservata.-Life:As has been recently established, he...
    
    , Italian composer

Deaths

• March – Giovanni Contino, Italian composer
• March 5 – Pedro Fernández, Spanish composer
• November – Robert White
  Robert White (composer)
  Robert White probably born in Holborn, a district of London, was a catholic English composer whose liturgical music to Latin texts is considered particularly fine...
  
  , English composer
• date unknown
  • Jean Guyon
    Jean Guyon
    Jean Guyon du Buisson was born at the Saint-Aubin parish in Tourouvre, Orne, France on September 18, 1592...
    
    , French composer of chansons
  • Antonfrancesco Doni – Italian writer, academic and musician