* 1609 – Richard Bennett, English Governor of the Colony of Virginia ( d. 1675 )

Arminianism is based on the theological ideas of the Dutch Reformed theologian Jacobus Arminius ( 1560 – 1609 ) and his historic supporters known as the Remonstrants and is known as a soteriological sect of Protestant Christianity.

* 1609 – Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.

* Alexander III of Imereti ( 1609 – 1660 ), king of Imereti

* 1609 – Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay.

* 1609 – Eighty Years ' War: Spain and the Dutch Republic sign the Treaty of Antwerp to initiate twelve years of truce.

* 1609 – Daimyo ( Lord ) of the Satsuma Domain in southern Kyūshū, Japan, completes his successful invasion of the Ryūkyū Kingdom in Okinawa.

The Birth of the Bronx, 1609 – 1900 ( 2000 ), popular

The spelling and names in both the 1609 – 1610 Douay Old Testament ( and in the 1582 Rheims New Testament ) and the 1749 revision by Bishop Challoner ( the edition currently in print used by many Catholics, and the source of traditional Catholic spellings in English ) and in the Septuagint ( an ancient translation of the Old Testament in to Greek, which is widely used by the Eastern Orthodox instead of the Masoretic text ) differ from those spellings and names used in modern editions which are derived from the Hebrew Masoretic text.

* Luc d ' Achery ( 1609 – 85 )

* 1609 – Philip Warwick, English writer and politician ( d. 1683 )

* 1526 – Charles de L ' Ecluse, Flemish botanist ( d. 1609 )

* 1670 – King Frederick III of Denmark ( b. 1609 )

* 1609 – Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, English historian ( d. 1674 )

* 1609 – The English ship Sea Venture, en route to Virginia, is deliberately driven ashore during a storm at Bermuda to prevent its sinking ; the survivors go on to found a new colony there.

* 1609 – Bohemia is granted freedom of religion.

* 1549 – Ferdinando I de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany ( d. 1609 )

* Albrecht Christian of Brandenburg ( 7 – 14 March 1609 ).

* 1609 – Official ratification of the Second Charter of Virginia takes place.

* 1609 – Shakespeare's sonnets are first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by the publisher Thomas Thorpe.

* 1609 – King John II Casimir of Poland ( d. 1672 )

* 1609 – King Frederick III of Denmark ( d. 1670 )

* 1609 – Queen Henrietta Maria of France ( d. 1669 )

* 1569 – Paul Sartorius, German composer and organist ( d. 1609 )

* Alexander of Imereti ( 1609 – 1660 ), Imeretian Prince and future King of Imereti

To avoid flooding it is documented that, in 1609, the post-Reformation Protestant Bishop, Alexander Douglas took steps to exclude the River Lossie from the loch.

* Sir Alexander Carew, 2nd Baronet ( 1609 – 1644 ), British Member of Parliament involved in the English Civil War

Alexander Hume ( c. 1560 – 4 December 1609 ) was a Scottish poet.

Samuel Cooper ( 1609 – May 5, 1672 ) was an English miniature painter, and younger brother of Alexander Cooper.

In addition, the Plantation of Ulster, begun in 1609, " planted " a sizable colony of English and Scottish Protestant settlers into the north of Ireland.

The area became part of the baronies of Boylagh and Bannagh in 1609, which was granted to Scottish undertakers as part of the Ulster Plantation.

The Plantation of Ulster began in 1609, and the province was heavily colonised with English and Scottish settlers.

James Hamilton, 3rd Earl of Arran ( c1532 – 1609 ) was a Scottish nobleman and soldier who fought against French troops during the Scottish Reformation.

His wife Christian having died, he returned to Edinburgh in 1609 in order to marry Alison Primrose, the daughter of James Primrose of Carington, the clerk to the Scottish Privy Council.

Mark Kerr ( or Ker ), 1st Earl of Lothian ( 1553 – April 8, 1609 ) was a Scottish nobleman and politician.

John Nisbet, Lord Dirleton ( c. 1609 – 1687 ) was a Scottish judge.

In 1606, Elsheimer married Carola Antonia Stuarda da Francoforte ( i. e. Stuart of Frankfurt-she was of Scottish ancestry and a fellow Frankfurter ), and in 1609 they had a son.

Looney also introduced the argument that the reference to the " ever-living poet " in the 1609 dedication to Shakespeare's sonnets implied that the author was dead at the time of publication.

Oxfordian writers say some literary allusions imply that the playwright and poet died prior to 1609, when Shake-Speares Sonnets appeared with the epithet " our ever-living poet " in its dedication.

** Barnabe Barnes, English poet ( d. 1609 )

Barnabe Barnes ( c. 1571 — 1609 ), was an English poet.

* June-Jean Rotrou, French poet and dramatist ( born 1609 )

* June 1-Sir Sir John Suckling, poet ( born 1609 )

* April 2-Paul Fleming, poet ( born 1609 )

* probable-Barnabe Barnes, poet and dramatist ( died 1609 )

Sir John Suckling ( 10 February 1609 – 1 June 1642 ) was an English poet and one prominent figure among those renowned for careless gaiety, wit, and all the accomplishments of a Cavalier poet ; and also the inventor of the card game Cribbage.

* William Warner ( poet ) ( c. 1558 – 1609 ) English poet

* Jean Rotrou ( 1609 – 1650 ), poet and tragedian

– 9 March 1609 ) was an English poet.

Kanaka Dasa () ( 1509 – 1609 ) was a great poet, philosopher, musician and composer from Karnataka.

* William Warner ( poet ) ( c. 1558 – 1609 ), English poet

Marc Lescarbot ( c. 1570 – 1641 ) was a French author, poet and lawyer, best known for his Histoire de la Nouvelle-France ( 1609 ), based on his expedition to Acadia ( 1606 – 1607 ) and research into French exploration.

The Elizabethan and Jacobean courtier Sir John Suckling built a house in the vicinity of the present Murray Park ( his son the poet Sir John Suckling was born in Whitton in 1609 ).

Paul Fleming, also spelt Flemming ( October 5, 1609 – April 2, 1640 ), was a German physician and poet.