Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

• Samuel Daniel, Certaine Small Workes, the fourth collected edition of his works^[1]
• John Davies, Yehovah Summa Totalis; or, All in All, and, the Same for Ever; or, An Addition to Mirum in Modum
• Michael Drayton, The Legend of Great Cromwel^[1]
• Thomas Ford, Musicke of sundrie kindes^[1]
• Sir John Harington, translator (from the Latin of Johannes de Mediolano's Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum), The Englishmans Doctor; or, The Schole of Salerne^[1]
• Robert Jones, The First Set of Madrigals (verse and music)^[1]
• Gervase Markham, Rodomonths Infernall; or, The Divell Conquered, translated from Philippe Desportes' French translation of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso^[1]
• Samuel Rowlands:
  • Democritus; or, Doctor Merry-man his Medicines, Against Melancholy Humors^[1]
  • Diogines Lanthorne^[1]

• March 12 – Paul Gerhardt (died 1676), German hymn writer
• March 8 – Johann von Rist (died 1667), German
• April 13 (bapt.) – Robert Chamberlain (died 1660), English poet and dramatist^[1]
• November 1 – Georg Philipp Harsdorffer (died 1658), German poet and translator
• November 5 – Anna Maria van Schurman (died 1678), Dutch
• date unknown
  • Alaol (died 1673), Bengali
  • Václav František Kocmánek (died 1679), Czech poet, author and historian
  • 1607/1608: Salabega (died unknown), Oriyan religious poet

• May – Sir Edward Dyer (born 1543), English courtier and poet
• c. May – Thomas Newton (born c. 1542), English physician, poet and translator^[1]
• June – Thomas Newton (born c. 1542), English physician, clergyman, poet, author and translator
• July 7 – Penelope Rich, Lady Rich (born 1563), English noblewoman, inspiration for Sir Philip Sidney's "Stella"
• September 18 – Abraham Fleming (born c. 1552), English poet, translator and antiquarian^[1]
• Also:
  • Henry Chettle, death year uncertain (born c. 1560), English playwright, writer and poet
  • Dinko Ranjina (born 1536), Croatian