- Apr 3 Giovanni Battista Massarengo, Italian composer, born in Parma, Duchy of Parma (d. c.1596)
- Nov 16 Paul Sartorius, German composer, born in the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire (now Germany) (d. 1609)
- Nov 27 Ottavio Vernizzi, Italian composer, born in Bologna, Papal States (now Italy) (d. 1649)