1625

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1590s  1600s  1610s  – 1620s –  1630s  1640s  1650s
Years:	1622 1623 1624 – 1625 – 1626 1627 1628

Deaths

• January 7 – Ruggiero Giovannelli, Italian composer
• March 7 – Johann Bayer, German astronomer (b. 1572)
• March 25 – Giambattista Marini, Italian poet (b. 1569)
• March 27 – King James I of England and Ireland/James VI of Scotland (b. 1566)
• March 29 – Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas, Spanish historian (b. 1549)
• April 23 – Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange (b. 1567)
• April 27 – Mori Terumoto, Japanese warrior (b. 1553)
• June 1 – Honoré d'Urfé, French writer (b. 1568)
• June 5 – Orlando Gibbons, English composer and organist (b. 1583)
• August – John Fletcher, English writer (b. 1579)
• September 20 – Heinrich Meibom, German historian and poet (b. 1555)
• September 26 – Thomas Dempster, Scottish historian (d. 1579)
• October 22 – Kikkawa Hiroie, Japanese politician (b. 1561)
• December 9 – Ubbo Emmius, Dutch historian and geographer (b. 1547)
• Robert Cushman, Plymouth Colony settler