Births

• January 20 – Ottavio Rinuccini
  Ottavio Rinuccini
  Ottavio Rinuccini was an Italian poet, courtier, and opera librettist at the end of the Renaissance and beginning of the Baroque eras...
  
  , librettist (d. 1621)
• April/May – Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
  Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
  Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck was a Dutch composer, organist, and pedagogue whose work straddled the end of the Renaissance and beginning of the Baroque eras. He was among the first major keyboard composers of Europe, and his work as a teacher helped establish the north German organ...
  
  , organist and composer (d. 1621)