Year was a Leap Year Starting On Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian Calendar .
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- February 1 - Edward Coke , English colonial entrepreneur and jurist (died 1634 )
- February 8 - Agrippa D'Aubigné , French poet and soldier (died 1630 )
- February 19 - Melchior Klesl , Austrian statesman and cardinal (died 1630 )
- February 28 - Joost Bürgi , Swiss clockmaker and mathematician (died 1632 )
- April 15 - Pietro Cataldi , Italian mathematician (died 1626 )
- June 18 - Gabriello Chiabrera , Italian poet (died 1637 )
- July 18 - Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1612 )
- August 24 - Lavinia Fontana , Italian painter (died 1614 )
- September 22 - Tsar Vasili IV Of Russia (d. 1612 )
- October 6 - Matteo Ricci , Italian Jesuit missionary to China (died 1610 )
- December 29 - Henri I De Bourbon, Prince De Condé (died 1588 )
- December 30 - Simon Forman , English occultist and astrologer (died 1611 )
- ''date unknown''
- --- Hans Von Aachen , German mannerist painter (died 1615 )
- --- Thomas Aufield , English Catholic martyr (died 1585 )
- --- Jean Bertaut , French poet (died 1611 )
- --- Richard Hakluyt , English author, editor and translator (born ''c.''1552 or 1553 ; died 1616 )
- --- Philemon Holland , English translator (died 1637 )
- --- Francisco Goméz De Sandoval Y Rojas, Duke Of Lerma , Spanish politician (died 1625 )
- --- Dom Justo Takayama , Japanese daimyo (died 1615 )
- --- Jean Hotman, Marquis De Villers-St-Paul , French diplomat (died 1636 )
- --- Jack Ward , English pirate (died 1622 )
: ''See also .''
- January 10 - Johann Cochlaeus , German humanist and controversialist (born 1479 )
- January 22 - Edward Seymour, 1st Duke Of Somerset , English politician (born 1509 )
- February 26 - Heinrich Faber , German composer (born 1500 )
- April 18 - John Leland , English historian (born 1502 )
- June 10 - Alexander Barclay , British poet (born 1476 )
- August 15 - Hermann Of Wied , German Catholic archbishop (born 1477 )
- October 14 - Oswald Myconius , Swiss Protestant reformer (born 1488 )
- October 17 - Andreas Osiander , German Protestant theologian (born 1498 )
- December 2 - Francis Xavier , Spanish Jesuit missionary (born 1506 )
- December 20 - Katharina Von Bora , wife of Martin Luther (born 1499 )
- ''date unknown''
- --- Sebastian Münster , German cartographer and cosmographer (born 1488 )
- --- Philippe Verdelot , French composer (born 1475 )
- --- Edward Edward Wotton , English zoologist (born 1492 )
: ''See also .''
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