* 1555 – Edward Kelley, English spirit medium ( d. 1597 )

* Alfonso II d ' Este ( 1533 – 1597 ), duke of Ferrara from 1559 to 1597

* 1537 – Ashikaga Yoshiaki, Japanese shogun ( d. 1597 )

* 1640 – John Francis Regis, French saint ( b. 1597 )

* 1597 – Petrus Canisius, Dutch Jesuit ( b. 1521 )

* 1653 – Luigi de Rossi, Italian composer ( b. 1597 )

* 1597 – Vincent Voiture, French poet ( d. 1648 )

* 1597 – A group of early Japanese Christians are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society.

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* 1597 – The first Dutch voyage to the East Indies reaches Bantam ( on Java ).

* 1597 – Elias Ammerbach, German organist ( b. 1530 )

* 1662 – Prince Honoré II of Monaco ( b. 1597 )

# John ( 1597 – 1627 ), Bishop of Havelberg

The French Baroque school is exemplified by composers such as Ennemond Gaultier ( 1575 – 1651 ), Denis Gaultier ( 1597 / 1603 – 1672 ), François Dufaut ( before 1604 – before 1672 ) and many others.

* 1597 – Jean-Charles de la Faille, Flemish mathematician ( d. 1652 )

* 1521 – Peter Canisius, Dutch priest ( d. 1597 )

* 1540 – Maharana Pratap, Hindu ruler of Mewar ( d. 1597 )

* 1648 – Vincent Voiture, French poet ( b. 1597 )

* 1597 – Jérôme le Royer de la Dauversière, French layman, founder of the Société Notre-Dame de Montréal ( d. 1659 )

* 1676 – Bernardino de Rebolledo, Spanish poet, soldier and diplomat ( b. 1597 )

* 1597 – Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate, Electress of Bavaria ( d. 1660 )

* June 27 – Roger Twysden, English antiquarian and royalist ( b. 1597 )

The English word " amputation " was first applied to surgery in the 17th century, possibly first in Peter Lowe's A discourse of the Whole Art of Chirurgerie ( published in either 1597 or 1612 ); his work was derived from 16th century French texts and early English writers also used the words " extirpation " ( 16th century French texts tended to use extirper ), " disarticulation ", and " dismemberment " ( from the Old French desmembrer and a more common term before the 17th century for limb loss or removal ), or simply " cutting ", but by the end of the 17th century " amputation " had come to dominate as the accepted medical term.

* August 1 – Edward Kelley, English spirit medium ( d. 1597 )

* Robert Walker ( c. 1597 – 1673 ), English merchant, politician and Royalist during the English Civil War

This old and chronic misconception was debunked already in 1597 by the English botanist John Gerard, who grew sunflowers in his famous herbal garden: " have reported it to turn with the Sun, the which I could never observe, although I have endeavored to find out the truth of it.

During his residence at Cambridge he wrote his Virgidemiarum ( 1597 ),' satires in English written after Latin models.

These included the English anatomist Francis Glisson ( 1597 – 1677 ) and the Italian doctor Marcello Malpighi ( 1628 – 1694 ).

Sir Edward Kelley or Kelly, also known as Edward Talbot ( August 1, 1555 – November 1, 1597 ), was an ambiguous figure in English Renaissance occultism and self-declared spirit medium who worked with John Dee in his magical investigations.

Sir William Waller ( c. 1597 – 19 September 1668 ) was an English Parliamentary general during the English Civil War.

Fortunately for English literature, Cobham's service in the office is brief: he dies the next year, 1597.

The first recorded use of golden yellow as a color name in English was in the year 1597.

Sir John Davies ( 16 April 1569 – 8 December 1626 ) was an English poet, lawyer, and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1597 and 1621.

John Underhill ( 7 October 1597 – 21 July 1672 ) was an early English settler and soldier in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the Province of New Hampshire, the New Haven Colony, New Netherland, and later the Province of New York.

The two best-known herbals in English were The Herball or General History of Plants ( 1597 ) by John Gerard and The English Physician Enlarged ( 1653 ) by Nicholas Culpeper.

* Robert Johnson ( MP ) ( 1537 – 1622 ), English politician who sat in the House of Commons, 1597 – 1614

The basis for modern civil almshouses and workhouses came into being in 1597 when the English Poor Laws were enacted.

In 1597 he published a large and heavily illustrated Herball, or Generall Historie of Plantes, which went on to be the most widely circulated botany book in English in the 17th century.

The first English translation from the Hippocratic Corpus, Peter Lowe's Chirurgerie (" Surgery "), was published in 1597, but a complete English translation of a dozen and a half " genuine " works was not offered in English until Francis Adams ' publication of 1849.

* Zhang Dai ( 1597 – 1689 ), Ming Dynasty writer and historian.

* The Kurdish historian, Sharaf-al-Din Bitlisi, uses the term Ajam ( عجم ) in his book Sharafnama ( 1597 CE ) to refer to the Shia Persians.

However, the source of the matter goes back to William Lambarde, ( 1536 – 1601 ) county historian of Kent, who held the post of Keeper of the Rolls Chapel, 1597 and was latterly keeper of the records at the Tower of London.