Bosschaert later worked in Amsterdam ( 1614 ), Bergen op Zoom ( 1615 – 1616 ), Utrecht ( 1616 – 1619 ), and Breda ( 1619 ).

Conrad von Gesner ( 1516 – 1565 ) and Nicholas Culpeper ( 1616 – 1654 ) also published herbals covering the medicinal uses of plants.

Yonten Gyatso ( 1589 – 1616 ), the 4th Dalai Lama, and a non-Tibetan, was the grandson of Altan Khan.

* 1574 – Maria Anna of Bavaria, consort of Ferdinand II ( d. 1616 )

* 1680 – Thomas Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian ( b. 1616 )

The famous fugue composer Johann Sebastian Bach ( 1685 – 1750 ) shaped his own works after those of Johann Jakob Froberger ( 1616 – 1667 ), Johann Pachelbel ( 1653 – 1706 ), Girolamo Frescobaldi ( 1583 – 1643 ), Dieterich Buxtehude ( c. 1637 – 1707 ), and other composers.

Outside the East Indies, the Dutch East India Company colonies or outposts were also established in Persia ( now Iran ), Bengal ( now Bangladesh and part of India ), Mauritius ( 1638-1658 / 1664-1710 ), Siam ( now Thailand ), Guangzhou ( Canton, China ), Taiwan ( 1624 – 1662 ), and southern India ( 1616 – 1795 ).

* 1616 – Tokugawa Ieyasu, Japanese shogun ( b. 1543 )

* 1616 – Samuel de Champlain returns to Quebec.

* 1587 – Johannes Fabricius, German astronomer ( d. 1616 )

* 1616 – François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort, French soldier ( d. 1669 )

* 1654 – Nicholas Culpeper, English botanist, herbalist, physician, and astrologer ( b. 1616 )

* 1616 – Antoinette Bourignon, Flemish mystic ( d. 1680 )

# Magdalena ( 7 January 1582 – 4 May 1616 ), married in 1598 to Landgrave Louis V of Hesse-Darmstadt

* 1616 – Johann Jakob Froberger, German composer ( d. 1667 )

* 1667 – Johann Jakob Froberger, German composer ( b. 1616 )

* 1616 – Andreas Gryphius, German writer ( d. 1664 )

* July 16 – Andreas Gryphius, German writer ( b. 1616 )

* May 7 – Johann Jakob Froberger, German composer ( b. 1616 )

* February 24 – Matthias Weckmann, German composer ( b. 1616 )

* January – Leonhard Hutter, German Lutheran theologian ( d. 1616 )

Leonhard Hutter ( also Hütter, Latinized as Hutterus ; January 19, 1563 – October 23, 1616 ) was a German Lutheran theologian.

* probable-Jeremias Felbinger, German Socinian writer, teacher and lexicographer ( born 1616 )

* April 4-Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau, German poet ( born 1616 )

* July 16 – Andreas Gryphius, German lyric poet and dramatist ( born 1616 )

The Italian translation was used to derive the first German translation Solomon Schweigger in 1616 in Nuremberg, which in turn was used to derive the first Dutch translation in 1641.

Andreas Libavius ( 1555 – July 25, 1616 ) was a German doctor and chemist.

Johannes Valentinus Andreae ( August 17, 1586 – June 27, 1654 ), a. k. a. Johannes Valentinus Andreä or Johann Valentin Andreae, was a German theologian, who claimed to be the author of the Chymische Hochzeit Christiani Rosencreutz anno 1459 ( 1616, Strasbourg, the Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz ) one of the three founding works of Rosicrucianism.

Johann ( es ) Fabricius ( 8 January 1587 – 19 March 1616 ), eldest son of David Fabricius ( 1564 – 1617 ), was a Frisian / German astronomer and a discoverer of sunspots ( in 1610 ), independently of Galileo Galilei.

* Miedema, Hessel, The Lives of the illustrious Netherlandish and German painters, from the first edition of the Schilder-boeck ( 1603 – 1604 ), preceded by the lineage, circumstances and place of birth, life and ..., from the second edition of the Schilder-boeck ( 1616 – 1618 ), Soest: Davaco, 1994-1997.

Between 1611 and 1616, Maier spent time in England at the court of James I, and also served other German princes, particularly the prince of Nassau, a great protector of alchemy.

Johann Jakob Froberger ( baptized 19 May 1616 – 7 May 1667 ) was a German Baroque composer, keyboard virtuoso, and organist.

Johann Klaj ( Latinized Clajus ) ( 1616 – 16 February 1656 ), German poet, was born at Meissen in Saxony.

He became a singer at St Mark's Basilica in Venice in 1616, second organist in 1639, first organist in 1665, and in 1668 maestro di cappella.

* Matthia Ferrabosco ( 1550 – 1616 ), Italian singer and composer

* 1616 – John Wallis, English mathematician ( d. 1703 )

Believed to be born on April 23 ( d. 1616 )

* January 31 – Tokugawa Ieyasu, Japanese shogun ( d. 1616 )

** Philip Henslowe, English theatrical entrepreneur ( d. 1616 )

** Hugh O ' Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone, Irish rebel ( d. 1616 )

** Alexander Whitaker, Virginia Colony religious leader ( d. 1616 )

** Jacob Le Maire, Dutch mariner ( d. 1616 )

** Francis Beaumont, English dramatist ( d. 1616 )

* January 12 – Jan Szczęsny Herburt, political writer ( d. 1616 )

** Scipione Gentili, Italian legal scholar ( d. 1616 )

** Meir Lublin, Polish rabbi ( d. 1616 )

** Richard Hakluyt, English author, editor and translator ( b. c. 1552 or 1553 ; d. 1616 )

* September 29 – Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish writer ( d. 1616 )

** Matteo Perez d ' Aleccio, Italian painter ( d. 1616 )

* September 2 – Vincenzo Scamozzi, Italian architect ( d. 1616 )

* August 2 – Mikołaj Krzysztof " the Orphan " Radziwiłł, Polish nobleman ( d. 1616 )