1628 deaths

French poet, critic, and translator (1555–1628)

politician from England (1592-1628)

Venetian painter (1548/50-1628)

Duke of Württemberg (1582-1628)

English composer, musician and organ builder

Consort of Wolfgang William, Count Palatine of Neuburg (1587-1628)

German philosopher (1547-1628)

Italian noble (1562-1628)

Danish explorer

French Jesuit, missionary and writer

Spanish artist (1565-1628)

English politician (1554-1628)

Mughal prince

German composer

English soldier, diplomat and adventurer (c.1581-1628)

English assassin

Flemish painter and graphic designer (1548-1628)

Paraguayan missionary

Lancaster Jesuit priest; one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales

Cambodian King (1618-1627)

English composer, organist and Catholic priest in Flanders (1561-1628)

Patriarch of Constantinople

Japanese samurai

Ruler of East Frisia in the early years of the Thirty Years' War

French merchant and explorer

King Songtham () also known as King Borommaracha I () was the king of the Ayutthaya Kingdom from 1611 to 1628, of the Sukhothai dynasty. His reign marked a period of prosperity for Ayutthaya following the restoration of independence from the Toungoo Empire after the reign of Bayinnaung. It also saw the beginning of expanded overseas trade, particularly with the Dutch and the Japanese. Songtham employed foreign mercenaries as royal guards; most notably the Japanese soldier Yamada Nagamasa (Okya Senaphimuk), commander of the Japanese volunteer corps.

Paraguayan priest (1596-1628)

Count of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1584-1628)

Catholic cardinal

Anauk-pet-lun or Anauk-bak-lun ( , lit. "King who died in the West"; 21 January 1578 – 9 July 1628), also called Prāsāda thong klod kæw (พระเจ้าปราสาททองกลดแก้ว) in Mon-thai chronicles, was the sixth king of Taungoo Burma and was largely responsible for restoring the kingdom after it collapsed at the end of the 16th century. In his 22-year reign from 1606 to 1628, Anaukpetlun completed the reunification efforts begun by his father, King Nyaungyan. Having inherited a partial kingdom comprising mainly Upper Burma and the Shan States from his father, Anaukpetlun went on to reconquer Lan Na in the

Italian composer

Earl of Worcester

Duchess of Jülich-Cleves-Berg by birth and by marriage Margravine of Burgau

Spanish military personnel (1571-1615)

Spanish Jesuit priest

advisor to Emperor Ferdinand II (1570-1628)

Earl of Devonshire

Mughal prince

Dutch optician (1580-1628)

painter and printmaker from the Northern Netherlands (1571-1628)

Italian playwright

Italian painter (1558-1628)

British theologian

English composer and viol player (c. 1575–1628)

Croatian poet

Swiss physician, traveller and writer (1574-1628)

Gdansk architect

Duke of Saxe-Weimar

Spanish painter (c.1596-1628)

Italian painter (1560-1634)

Czech nobleman (1568-1628)

Mayor of Bamberg and victim of the witch trials

Korean writer

Chinese artist (1547-1628)

sufi saint, poet, author and scholar (1541-1628)

Maharana of Mewar

Flemish artist

French theologian (1543-1628)

Iranian calligrapher

Spanish theologian