1603 deaths

Elizabeth I was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603. She was the last and longest reigning monarch of the House of Tudor. Her eventful reign, and its effect on history and culture, gave name to the Elizabethan era.

13th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1595–1603)

English physician, physicist and natural philosopher (1544-1603)

French mathematician (*1540 – †1603)

Holy Roman empress (1528-1603)

Moroccan Sultan of the Saadi dynasty (1549-1603) (r.1578-1603)

French theologian and philosopher

Italian physician, botanist and philosopher (1524–1603)

Mughal princess

Kurdish-Turkmen noble and writer (1543-c.1603)

Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Regent of Prussia (1539-1603)

Flemish draughtsman, painter (1532-1603)

Polish noble and writer

Duke of Mecklenburg-Güstrow

Ottoman prince, son of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed III

Italian painter (1536-1603)

Russian empress

Flemish musician and composer

Ottoman grand vizier (1535–1603)

Italian mathematician

Polish-Lithuanian noble, 1547-1603

Catholic cardinal and archbishop of Naples

Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople

Flemish captain and vice-admiral Dutch East India Company

Prince of Transylvania and Hungarian noble (1553-1603)

Duke of Brunswick-Harburg (1549-1603)

Flemish painter

ninja leader

Duke of Pomerania-Stettin

English Puritan preacher and theologian

Count of Croatia

Renaissance Italian composer

Dutch painter (1550-1603)

Italian cardinal

German duke (1543–1603)

cardinal and academic from Italy

Polish noble

Italian Jesuit and author

Indian saint

ninth Gyalwa Karmapa

victim of the witch trials in Fulda

Doge of the Republic of Genoa (1540-1607)

naqshbandi Sufi saint

Spanish colonial administrator

son of Tokugawa Ieyasu. nominal successor of Takeda clan

count of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst (1540-1603)

Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (1547-1603)

Governess of the Children of France

Pope of Alexandria

Sister of William the Silent (1542-1603)

Spanish Jesuit (1549-1603)

Italian engineer and writer

Japanese daimyō (1526–1603)

German astronomer

Flemish Renaissance painter (1544-1603)

Italian admiral

Polish noble

Sardinian catholic priest

Spanish artist

Roman Catholic archbishop