May 18: Christopher Marlowe.

July 25: King Henry IV of France.

Events of 1593

January–June

• January – Siege of Pyongyang (1593): A Japanese invasion is defeated in Pyongyang by a combined force of Korean and Ming troops.

• January 18 – Siamese King Naresuan in combat on elephant back killed Burmese Crown Prince Minchit Sra on Monday, Moon 2 Waning day 2, Year of the Dragon, Chula sakarat 954, reckoned as corresponding to January 25, 1593, of the Gregorian calendar, and commemorated as Royal Thai Armed Forces Day.

• February 2 – Battle of Piątek: Polish forces led by Janusz Ostrogski are victorious.

• February 12 – The Battle of Haengju is victory for Korea over Japan.

• May 18 – Playwright Thomas Kyd's accusations of heresy lead to an arrest warrant for Christopher Marlowe.

• June 22 – Battle of Sisak: The Habsburgs defeat the Ottoman Empire.

Undated

• The Long War breaks out in Hungary, between the Habsburgs and the Ottomans.

• Mihai Viteazul becomes prince of Walachia.

• Henry Constable's Spiritual Sonnetts are written.

Births

• March 13 – Georges de La Tour, French painter (d. 1652)

• March 25 – Jean de Brébeuf, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1649)

• April – Mumtaz Mahal, Persian wife of Shah Jahan I (d. 1631)

• April 3 – George Herbert, English poet and orator (d. 1633)

• April 4 – Edward Nicholas, English statesman (d. 1669)

• April 13 – Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, English statesman (d. 1641)

• May 19 – Jacob Jordaens, Flemish painter (d. 1678)

• July 8 – Artemisia Gentileschi, Italian painter (d. 1653)

• August 9 – Izaak Walton, English writer (d. 1683)

• September 22 – A. Matthäus Merian, Swiss cartographer (d. 1650)

• November 1 – Abel Servien, French diplomat (d. 1659)

• date unknown

• *Leonardo Agostini, Italian antiquary (d. 1685)

• *Louis Barbier, French bishop (d. 1670)

• * William Fitz-Shakespeare, William Shakespeare's son (d. 1630?)

• *Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford (d. 1641)

• *Mervyn Tuchet, 2nd Earl of Castlehaven (d. 1631)

• *Anthony van Diemen, Dutch merchant (d. 1645)

• *Toyotomi Hideyori, Japanese nobleman (d. 1615)

• *Jerónimo Lobo, Portuguese Jesuit missionary (d. 1678)

• *Mikołaj Ostroróg, Polish nobleman (d. 1651)

• *Sir George Radcliffe, English politician (d. 1657)

• *Maeda Toshitsune, Japanese warlord (d. 1658)

Deaths

• February 6

• *Jacques Amyot, French writer (b. 1513)

• *Emperor Ogimachi of Japan (b. 1517)

• March 23 – Henry Barrowe, English Puritan and separatist (b. 1550)

• April 6 – John Greenwood, English Puritan and separatist (hanged)

• April 9 – Fredrick Hawrn, English painter

• May 29 – John Penry, Welsh Protestant martyr (b. 1559)

• May 30 – Christopher Marlowe, English poet and playwright (b. 1564)

• June 25 – Michele Mercati, Italian physician and botanist (b. 1541)

• July 11 – Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Italian painter (b. 1527)

• September 25 – Henry Stanley, 4th Earl of Derby (b. 1531)

• date unknown

• *Jeong Cheol, Korean administrator and poet (b. 1536)

• *William Harrison, English clergyman (b. 1534)

• *Krzysztof Kosiński, Polish noble

• *Li Shizhen, Chinese physician, pharmacologist, and mineralogist (b. 1518)