|-
| align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1584 1585 1586 - 1587 - 1588 1589 1590
|-
| align="center" colspan=2 | 1560s 1570s - 1580s ''' - 1590s 1600s 1610s
|-
| align="center" | - 16th Century ''' - 17th Century
|}
1587 was a Common Year Starting On Thursday of the Gregorian Calendar or a Common Year Starting On Sunday of the Julian Calendar .
Events
Births
- January 5 - Xu Xiake , Chinese adventurer (died 1641 )
- January 6 - Gaspar De Guzmán Y Pimentel, Count-Duke Of Olivares , Spanish statesman (died 1645 )
- January 8 - Jan Pieterszoon Coen , Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (died 1629 )
- February 26 - Stefano Landi , Italian composer (died 1639 )
- May 8 - Victor Amadeus I, Duke Of Savoy (died 1637 )
- August 18 - Virginia Dare , Virginia colony settler (died 1588 )
- September 18 - Francesca Caccini , Italian composer
- November 3 - Samuel Scheidt , German composer (died 1653 )
- Kaspar Von Barth , German philologist (died 1658 )
- Willem Ysbrandtsz Bontekoe , Dutch sea captain (died 1657 )
- Nathaniel Field , English dramatist and actor (died 1620 )
- Arthur Johnston , Scottish physician and poet (died 1641 )
- Francis Kynaston , English courtier and poet (died 1642 )
- Krzysztof Ossolinski , Polish nobleman (died 1645 )
- Gabriel Oxenstierna , Swedish statesman (died 1640 )
- Yun Seondo , Korean politician and poet (died 1671 )
- Joost Van Den Vondel , Dutch dramatist and poet (died 1679 )
- Robert Rich, 2nd Earl Of Warwick , English colonial administrator and admiral (died 1658 )
- George Yeardley , English colonial administrator in America (died 1627 )
''See also .''
Deaths
- February 8 - Mary, Queen Of Scots (executed) (born 1542 )
- March 30 - Ralph Sadler , English statesman (born 1507 )
- April 8 - John Foxe , English author (born 1516 )
- April 14 - Edward Manners, 3rd Earl Of Rutland (born 1548 )
- April 16 - Anne Stanhope , Duchess of Somerset (born 1497 )
- October 19 - Francesco I De' Medici, Grand Duke Of Tuscany (born 1541 )
- Abe Motozane , Japanese warlord (born 1513 )
- Vincenzo Bellavere , Italian composer
- Dudley Fenner , English puritan divine
- Nguyen Binh Khiem , Vietnamese poet and saint (born 1492 )
- Kaspar Olevianus , German theologian (born 1536 )
- Vincenzo Ruffo , Italian composer (born 1510 )
- Thomas Seckford , English official (born 1515 )
- Jan Tarlo , Polish nobleman
- George Whetstone , English writer (born 1544 )
- Hai Rui , Ming dynasty "model official" (born 1514 )
''See also .''
|
