1615 deaths

Queen of France and Navarre

German painter (1552–1615)

Italian alchemist and dramatist (1535-1615)

Japanese samurai (1593-1615)

16th Century Commander and Legendary Warrior of the Sengoku Period

Japanese catholic daimyo, martyr and blessed

Superior General of the Society of Jesus (1543–1615)

Italian noble (1568-1615)

Doge of Venice (1536-1615)

Dutch colonial governor

Belgian mathematician (1561–1615)

French lawyer (1529-1615)

Korean court physician (1539 – 1615 )

Scottish Jesuit saint and martyr

British noblewoman, Duchess of Somerset

Spanish admiral

or , also known as , was a Japanese historical figure in the late Sengoku period. She was the concubine and the second wife of Japanese ruler Toyotomi Hideyoshi. As the mother of his son and successor Hideyori, she acted as Hideyori's guardian in the restoration of the Toyotomi clan after the fall of the Council of Five Elders, and alongside her son, led the last anti-Tokugawa shogunate resistance in the siege of Osaka.

German singer and composer (1570–1615)

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daimyo

Iranian calligrapher (1554–1615)

Swedish field marshal (1585-1615)

English mathematician and cartographer (1561-1615)

German music theorist, composer, chronologer, astronomer, and teacher

Dutch colonial governor

daimyo

French artist (1548-1615)

Duke of Joyeuse

(1560/66–1615) Roman Catholic archbishop of Esztergom

Baroque painter (c.1570–1615)

Japanese daimyo of the Sengoku period

member of the Lord Chamberlain's Men, a Shakespearean actor

samurai

Second Duke of Bracciano

Chinese general

Japanese warrior

Italian cardinal (1556-1615)

daughter of Tokugawa Ieyasu; wife of Hōjō Ujinao, Ikeda Terumasa

engraver and painter (1553-1615)

Japanese painter (1533-1615)

Chinese Buddhist monk

Belgian mathematician, priest and astronomer (1572-1615)

Hungarian politician (1538-1615)

Japanese aristocrat

Bosnian scholar and judge

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Cuyen (; 1580 – 14 October 1615) was a Manchu prince and eldest son of the Later Jin ruler Nurhaci, the early patriarch of the Qing dynasty. An accomplished warrior, Cuyen was instrumental in the consolidation of Nurhaci's authority among rival Jurchen clans. He also served as the primary civil administrator for intermittent periods in the regime founded by Nurhaci. However, he eventually lost favour with his father because he tried to cast sorcery spells against other princes. He was placed in solitary confinement and died in captivity a few years later.

Japanese warrior and tea master

Saxon Royal (1589-1615)

Japanese samurai

samurai

Italian astrologer

Italian military engineer

Slovak poet, linguist, mathematician, translator, university educator and science writer (1555-1615)

Japanese daimyō of the Sengoku and early Edo periods

king of Kakheti (Georgia) from 1614 to 1615

British doctor

member of the Parliament and an English astronomer

Badr al-Din al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Dimashqi al-Saffuri al-Burini (July 1556-11 June 1615), commonly known as al-Hasan al-Burini, was a Damascus-based Ottoman Arab historian and poet and Shafi'i jurist.

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