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Events
Births
- March 2 - Thomas Bodley , English diplomat and library founder (died 1613 )
- April 2 - Elizabeth Of Valois , queen of Philip II Of Spain (died 1568 )
- April 28 - Yi Sun-sin , Korean naval leader (died 1598 )
- July 8 - Don Carlos Of Spain , son of Philip II Of Spain (died 1568 )
- August 1 - Andrew Melville , Scottish theologian and religious reformer (died 1622 )
- December 7 - Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley , consort of Mary I Of Scotland (died 1567 )
- George Bannatyne , collector of Scottish poems (died 1608 )
- Nicholas Breton , English poet and novelist (died 1626 )
- Alessandro Farnese, Duke Of Parma And Piacenza (died 1592 )
- John Field , British Puritan clergyman and controversialist (died 1588 )
- John Gerard , English botanist (died 1612 )
- Joris Hoefnagel , Dutch painter and engraver (died 1601 )
- Giovanni Filippo Ingrassias , Sicilian anatomist (died 1580 )
- Alexander Montgomerie , Scottish poet (died 1610 )
- William Morgan , Welsh Bible translator (died 1604 )
- Azai Nagamasa , Japanese nobleman
- Mashita Nagamori , Japanese warlord
- Lady Douglas Sheffield , lover of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl Of Leicester (died 1608 )
''See also .''
Deaths
- January 16 - George Spalatin , German reformer (born 1484 )
- April 10 - Costanzo Festa , Italian composer (born 1495 )
- June 12 - Francis I, Duke Of Lorraine (born 1517 )
- August 24 - Charles Brandon, 1st Duke Of Suffolk , English politician
- August 27 - Piotr Gamrat , Polish Catholic archbishop (b. 1487 )
- September 24 - Albert Of Mainz , elector and archbishop of Mainz (b. 1490 )
- October 18 - John Taverner , English composer
- Hans Baldung , German artist (born 1480 )
- Antonio De Guevara , Spanish chronicler and moralist (born 1481 )
- Fernão Lopez , Portuguese renegade
- Stanisław Odrowąż , Polish noble (born 1509 )
''See also .''
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