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Events
Births
- January 12 - Petrus Scriverius , Dutch writer and scholar (died 1660 )
- May 27 - Caspar Schoppe , German controversialist and scholar (died 1649 )
- June 6 - Giovanni Diodati , Swiss Protestant divine (died 1649 )
- October 7 - John Marston , English writer (died 1634 )
- October 12 - Thomas Dudley , Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony (died 1652 )
- November 17 - Roque Gonzales , Paraguayan missionary (d. 1628 )
- November 27 - Shimazu Tadatsune , Japanese ruler of Satsuma (died 1638 )
- December 20 - Saint John Sarkander , Moravian priest (died 1620 )
- William Ames , English protestant philosopher (died 1633 )
- Scipione Borghese , Italian art collector (died 1633 )
- John Carver , first governor of Plymouth Colony (died 1621 )
- Jesper Mattson Cruus Af Edeby , Swedish soldier and politician (died 1622 )
- Enrico Caterino Davila , Italian historian (died 1631 )
- Giulio Cesare La Galla , professor of philosophy at the Collegio Romano in Italy (died 1624 )
- Santino Solari , Swiss architect and sculptor (died 1646 )
- Thomas Weelkes , English composer and organist (died 1626 )
''See also .''
Deaths
- January 19 - Hans Sachs , German ''Meistersinger'' (born 1494 )
- February 10 - Guilielmus Xylander , German classical scholar (born 1532 )
- May 30 - Harada Naomasa , Japanese samurai
- August 15 - Bálint Bakfark , Hungarian composer and lutenist (born 1507 )
- August 27 - Titian , Italian painter
- September 21 - Gerolamo Cardano , Italian mathematician, physician, astrologer and gambler (b. 1502 )
- October 12 - Emperor Maximilian II (born 1527 )
- Walter Devereux, 1st Earl Of Essex (born 1541 )
- Aloysius Lilius , Italian physician (born 1510 )
- Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1527 )
- Anthony More , Dutch portrait painter (born 1512 )
- Mizuno Nobumoto , Japanese shogun
- Luis De Zúñiga Y Requesens , Spanish governor of the Netherlands
- Josias Simmler , Swiss theologian and classicist (born 1530 )
- Johann Stumpf , Swiss historian (born 1500 )
- Tahmasp I , Shah Of Persia
- Nicola Vicentino , Italian music theorist and composer (born 1511 )
''See also .''
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