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1609 deaths

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Annibale Carracci

Bolognese painter (1560–1609)

Joseph Justus Scaliger

French historian (1540-1609)

Judah Loew ben Bezalel

Ferdinando I de' Medici

Grand Duke of Tuscany (1549-1609)

Jacobus Arminius

Dutch theologian, inspirator of Arminianism, champion of tolerance (1560-1609)

Federico Zuccari

Italian painter (1539-1609)

Carolus Clusius

Flemish doctor and botanist (1526–1609)

John William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg

Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg

Premier in the Joseon Dynasty (1539-1609)

Gasparo da Salò

Italian luthier

Giovanni Leonardi

Founder of the Clerks Regular of the Mother of God of Lucca

Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi

Italian composer

Fernando Niño de Guevara

(1541-1609) Cardinal, Archbishop of Seville and Spanish Grand Inquisitor

German alchemist

Giulio Cesare Croce

Italian writer, actor/producer of cantastoria and enigma writer

Italian composer (1557–1609)

Indian philosopher, musician and poet

Mikołaj Gomółka

Polish composer

Dorothea Hedwig of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

Princess of Anhalt-Zerbst

Arild Huitfeldt

Danish historian (1546-1609)

16th century Kashmiri poet-empress

Joseph Heintz the Elder

Swiss painter (1564-1609)

García Hurtado de Mendoza, 5th Marquis of Cañete

Royal Governor of Chile (1535-1609)

English writer (1569–1609)

Kyōgoku Takatsugu

daimyo of the Azuchi-Momoyama Period and the early Edo Period

James Hamilton, 3rd Earl of Arran

Scottish nobleman (1537-1609)

Ludovico III de Torres

Italian cardinal and archbishop of Monreale (1552-1609)

Merkelis Giedraitis

Lithuanian noble from the Giedraičiai family and Bishop of Samogitia

Francisco Cabral

Portuguese Jesuit missionary in Japan

Colonial governor of Virginia

Joseph Duchesne

French physician

Eustache Du Caurroy

French composer (1549-1609)

Julius d’Austria

Giammateo Asola

Italian composer (1524–1609)

Bartholomaeus Keckermann

Prussian reformed theologian and philosopher

Séraphin Olivier-Razali

French cardinal

English soldier

English noblewoman

Italian cardinal

Ippolito Baccusi

Italian composer

Margarita de Cardona

Spanish court official

German philosopher

Isabelle de Limeuil

Reginaldo de Lizárraga

South American Roman Catholic prelate

Flemish painter

André du Laurens

Tiburzio Vergelli

Italian sculptor (1551-1609)

Tibúrcio Spannocchi

Italian engineer

Pierre Biard l'Aîné

French sculptor

was a Japanese noblewoman from the Sengoku period. She was the half-sister of Japanese warlord Uesugi Kenshin. She was also the mother of Uesugi Kagekatsu and the first wife of Nagao Masakage. Aya is best known for her role in events before and after the siege of Otate; she lamented the Uesugi civil war for succession after Kenshin's death and refused to support either heir.

Scottish poet, died 1609

Gnecchi-Soldo Organtino

Italian missionary with the Society of Jesus (1530-1609)

István Illésházy

Hungarian politician (1541-1609)

Willem van Bergen

Antoine d'Estrées

French diplomat

Hendrik van Cuyk

Dutch university professor and priest

prince of Joseon