Deaths
- February 11 - Pietro Cataldi, Italian mathematician (born 1548)
- April 9 - Francis Bacon, English philosopher and a founder of modern scientific research (born 1561)
- April 11 - Marin Getaldić or Ghetaldi, Ragusan politician, mathematician and physicist, contributed to the emergence of new algebra (born 1568)
- April 14 - Gaspare Aselli, Italian anatomist (born c. 1581)
- June 21 - Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, Flemish-born humanist, priest, physician and mineralogist (born c. 1550)
- October 30 - Willebrord Snellius, Dutch mathematician and physicist who devised the basic law of refraction, known as Snell's law (born 1580)
- December 10 - Edmund Gunter, English mathematician (born 1581)
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