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1631 deaths

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English poet and cleric (1572-1631)

English soldier, explorer, writer (1580–1631)

Sophie of Mecklenburg-Güstrow

Queen consort of Denmark and Norway

Constance of Austria

Queen consort of Poland and Sweden

Archduchess Maria Maddalena of Austria

Grand Duchess of Tuscany

Federico Borromeo

Cardinal Archbishop of Milan (1564–1631)

Michael Maestlin

German astronomer and mathematician (1550–1631)

Michael Drayton

Guillén de Castro y Bellvis

A Spanish writer of Hijazi-Saudi Arab origin

Francesco Maria II della Rovere

Italian noble, Duke of Urbino

Nicolò Contarini

Doge of Venice (1553-1631)

Charles Gonzaga

Duke of Nevers and Rethel (1609-1631)

Louis Frederick, Duke of Württemberg-Montbéliard

Duke of Württemberg-Montbéliard (1586-1631)

Jorge Manuel Theocupulus

painter and son of El Greco (1578-1631)

Catherine de Parthenay

French noblewoman (1554–1631)

Pierre de Lancre

French judge, witchcraft theorist and witch hunter (1553–1631)

Tobias Verhaecht

Flemish painter (1561-1631)

Countess Palatine Dorothea of Simmern

Princess consort of Anhalt-Dessau

engraver from the Northern Netherlands (1571-1631)

Cesare Cremonini

Italian academic and philosopher (1550–1631)

Michelagnolo Galilei

Italian lutenist and composer (1575-1631)

Juan van der Hamen

Spanish artist (1596-1630)

Matija Divković

Bosnian Franciscan and writer

Countess Charlotte Brabantina of Nassau

Dutch noble (1580-1631)

Sir Robert Cotton, 1st Baronet, of Connington

English antiquarian (1571-1631)

Jacobus Bontius

Dutch physician

Sophie Hedwig of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

Duchess consort of Pomerania-Wolgast

Louise Marguerite of Lorraine

French princess

Ambrósio I of Kongo

Ruler of the Kingdom of Kongo

Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola

Spanish poet and historian (1562-1631)

Charles of Lorraine, duke of Aumale

French aristocrat (1555-1631)

Konstantinas Sirvydas

Lithuanian lexicographer

Abu Marwan Abd al-Malik II

Moroccan politician

Frederick Achilles, Duke of Württemberg-Neuenstadt

Duke of Württemberg-Neuenstadt

Liborius Wagner

Justinus van Nassau

Dutch noble (1559-1631)

painter from the Northern Netherlands

Enrico Caterino Davila

Italian historian and diplomat (1576-1631)

Shmuel Eidels (1555 – 1631) ( Shmuel Eliezer HaLevi Eidels) was a renowned rabbi and Talmudist famous for his commentary on the Talmud, Chiddushei Halachot. Eidels is also known as Maharsha (, a Hebrew acronym for "Our Teacher, the Rabbi Shmuel Eidels").

Diego Carrillo de Mendoza, 1st Marquis of Gelves

Spanish general and noble

Spanish missionary

Diego Guzmán de Haros

Catholic cardinal

Ukrainian bishop

Tommaso da Olera

Italian Capuchin and Blessed

mother of Tsar Mikhail Romanov

Giulio Cesare Capaccio

Italian historian

Johannes Hartmann

German chemist, physician and rector (1568-1631)

English author (c. 1552/3 – 1631)

doge of the Republic of Genoa

daimyo who ruled the Kuwana Domain and then the Himeji Domain

François d'Orléans-Longueville, duc de Fronsac

Hoshina Masamitsu

Japanese daimyo of the Edo period

Dietrich von Falkenberg

German statesman

Alessandro Giustiniani Longo