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Events
Births
- February 15 - Galileo Galilei , Italian astronomer and physicist (died 1642 )
- February 26 - Christopher Marlowe , English poet and dramatist (died 1593 )
- March 9 - David Fabricius , Frisian astronomer (died 1617 )
- April 26 (baptized) - William Shakespeare , English poet and dramatist (died 1616 )
- September 24 - William Adams , English navigator and samurai (died 1620 )
- November 22 - Henry Brooke, 8th Baron Cobham , English peer and traitor (died 1619 )
- William Bathe , Jesuit priest
- Abraham Bloemaert , Dutch painter and engraver (died 1651 )
- Daniel Chamier , minister of religion in France (died 1621 )
- Henry Chettle , English dramatist (died 1607 )
- Kryštof Harant Z Polžic A Bezdružic , Bohemian composer and protestant rebel (beheaded 1621 )
- Paul Miki , Japanese Catholic saint and martyr (died 1597 )
- Thomas Morton , English churchman (died 1659 )
- Henry Percy, 9th Earl Of Northumberland (died 1632 )
- Francisco Pacheco , Spanish painter (died 1654 )
- Pedro Páez , Jesuit missionary in Ethiopia (died 1622 )
- Thomas Shirley , English pirate (died 1620 )
- Pieter Brueghel The Younger , Flemish painter (died 1638 )
''See also .''
Deaths
- January 4 - Hosokawa Ujitsuna , Japanese military commander (b. 1514 )
- February 18 - Michelangelo Buonarroti , Italian artist and architect (born 1475 )
- May 2 - Cardinal Rodolfo Pio Da Carpi , Italian humanist (b. 1500 )
- May 27 - John Calvin , French protestant reformer (born 1509 )
- July 27 - Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1503 )
- October 5 - Pierre De Manchicourt , Flemish composer
- October 15 - Vesalius , Flemish anatomist (born 1514 )
- October 18 - Johannes Acronius Frisius , German physician and mathematician (born 1520 )
- Pierre Belon , French naturalist (born 1517 )
- Giovanni Da Udine , Italian painter (born 1487 )
- Purandara Dasa , Indian musician
- Charles Etienne , French anatomist (born 1503 )
- Guillaume Morel , French classical scholar (born 1505 )
- Manus O'Donnell , Irish leader
- Maurice Scève , French poet (born 1500 )
- Luis De Velasco , Viceroy of New Spain (born 1511 )
''See also .''
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