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Events
Births
- January 24 - Edmund Campion , English Jesuit and Roman Catholic martyr (died 1581 )
- January 28 - Ludolph Van Ceulen , German mathematician (died 1610 )
- June 3 - Archduke Charles II Of Austria , regent of Inner Austria (died 1590 )
- June 11 - Barnabe Googe , English poet (died 1594 )
- July 4 - Gackt
- August 26 - King Magnus Of Livonia (died 1583 )
- October 1 - Johann Jakob Grynaeus , Swiss protestant clergyman (died 1617 )
- November 16 - Cecilia Of Sweden (died 1627 )
- Jose De Acosta , Jesuit missionary and naturalist (died 1600 )
- Andrea Andreani , Italian engraver on wood (died 1623 )
- William Byrd , English composer (died 1623 )
- Christopher Hatton , English politician (died 1591 )
- George Hastings, 4th Earl Of Huntingdon , English nobleman (died 1604 )
- Pierre Jeannin , French statesman (died 1622 )
- Lettice Knollys , lady-in-waiting to Elizabeth I Of England (died 1634 )
- Bernardino De Mendoza , Spanish military commander (died 1604
- Henry Howard, 1st Earl Of Northampton (died 1614 )
- Zofia Odrowaz , Polish noblewoman (died 1580 )
- Juan De Oñate , Spanish explorer (died 1626 )
- Leonhard Rauwolf , German physician and botanist (died 1596 )
- Joseph Justus Scaliger , French protestant scholar (died 1609 )
- Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl Of Tyrone , Irish rebel (died 1616 )
- François Viète , French mathematician (died 1603 )
- Amago Yoshihisa , Japanese samurai and warlord (died 1610 )
- Gaspar De Zuniga Y Azevedo , Spanish colonial administrator and viceroy of Mexico (died 1606 )
''See also .''
Deaths
- March 30 - Matthäus Lang Von Wellenburg , German statesman and archbishop of Salzburg (born 1469 )
- May 6 - Juan Luís Vives , Spanish scholar
- May 22 - Francesco Guicciardini , Italian statesman and historian (born 1483 )
- July 28 - Thomas Cromwell , English statesman (executed)
- July 30 - Thomas Abel , English priest (martyred)
- July 30 - Robert Barnes , English reformer (martyred) (born 1495 )
- August 23 - Guillaume Budé , French scholar
- August 24 - Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola , Italian artist (b. 1503 )
- September 2 - Lebna Dengel , Emperor Of Ethiopia (died in battle) (born 1501 )
- October 5 - Helius Eobanus Hessus , German Latin poet (born 1488 )
- Elizabeth Blount , mistress of Henry VIII Of England (born 1502 )
- Tristão Da Cunha , Portuguese explorer (born 1460 )
- Johann Georg Faust , German alchemist (born 1480 )
- Federico II Of Gonzaga , Marquis of Mantua (born 1500 )
- Angela Merici , Italian religious leader and saint born in Desenzano del Garda (born 1474 )
- Francisco De Ulloa , Spanish explorer
''See also .''
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