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Events

October 25 — Dirk Hartog makes the second recorded landfall by a European on Australian soil, at an island off the Western Australian coast
Pocahontas arrives in England
War between Venice and Austria
Collegium Musicum founded in Prague
Nicolaus Copernicus' De revolutionibus is placed on the Index of Forbidden Books by the Roman Catholic Church

Births

January 13 - Antoinette Bourignon, Flemish mystic (d. 1680)
January 16 - François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort, French soldier (d. 1669)
May 18 - Johann Jakob Froberger, German composer (d. 1667)
May 24 - John Maitland, Duke of Lauderdale, (d. 1682)
May 25 - Carlo Dolci, Italian artist, (d. 1686)
October 11 - Andreas Gryphius, German writer (d. 1664)
October 20 - Thomas Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian (d. 1680)
November 22 - John Wallis, English mathematician, (d. 1703)
William Sancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1693)

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Deaths

January 6 - Philip Henslowe, English theatre manager
April 23 (N.S.) - Miguel Cervantes, Spanish author (b. 1547)
April 23 (O.S.) - William Shakespeare, English playwright and poet (b. 1564)
June 1 - Tokugawa Ieyasu, Japanese shogun (b. 1543)
July 20 - Hugh O'Neill, 3rd Earl of Tyrone, Irish soldier
July 25 - Andreas Libavius, German physician and chemist (b. 1550)
August 7 - Vincenzo Scamozzi, Italian architect (b. 1548)
October 23 - Leonhard Hutter, German theologian (b. 1563)
November 23 - Richard Hakluyt, English writer
Alexander Whitaker, Virginia Colony religious leader (drowned) (b. 1585)
Tang Xianzu, Chinese playwright and poet (b. 1550)

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