Year was a Common Year Starting On Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian Calendar .
- August 16 - Agostino Carracci , Italian painter and graphical artist (died 1602 )
- August 19 - Frederick I, Duke Of Württemberg (died 1608 )
- September 16 - Jacques Mauduit , French composer (died 1627 )
- ''date unknown''
- --- Julius Caesar , English judge and politician (died 1636 )
- --- Giovanni Croce , Italian composer (died 1609 )
- --- Giovanni Gabrieli , Italian composer and organist (died 1612 )
- --- Balthasar Gérard , assassin of William I Of Orange (died 1584 )
- --- Toda Katsushige , Japanese warlord (died 1600 )
- --- Olaus Martini , Archbishop Of Uppsala (died 1609 )
- --- Thomas Morley , English composer (died 1602 )
- --- Oda Nobutada , Japanese general (died 1582 )
: ''See also .''
- January 2 - Pontormo , Italian painter (born 1494 )
- January 8 - Albert Alcibiades, Margrave Of Brandenburg-Kulmbach ("Albert the Warlike"), Prince of Bayreuth (born 1522 )
- April 9 - Mikael Agricola , Finnish scholar (born c. 1510 )
- April 21 - Petrus Apianus , German astronomer (born 1495 )
- June 11 - King John III Of Portugal (born 1502 )
- July 8 (date of will) - Geoffrey Glyn, by his will founding Friars School, Bangor
- July 16 - Anne Of Cleves , queen of Henry VIII Of England (born 1515 )
- August 1 - Olaus Magnus , Swedish ecclesiastic and writer (born 1490 )
- September 1 - Jacques Cartier , French explorer (born 1491 )
- September 13 - John Cheke , English classical scholar and statesman (born 1514 )
- September 27 - Emperor Go-Nara Of Japan (born 1497 )
- October 25 - William Cavendish , English courtier (born 1505 )
- November 19 - Bona Sforza , queen of Sigismund I Of Poland (born 1494 )
- December 13 - Niccolo Fontana Tartaglia , Italian mathematician (born 1499 )
- ''date unknown''
- --- Sebastian Cabot , explorer (born 1476 )
- --- Thomas Crecquillon , Flemish composer (born 1490 )
- --- Gonzalo Fernández De Oviedo Y Valdés , Spanish historian (born 1478 )
- --- Nicolas De Herberay Des Essarts , French translator
- --- Jean Salmon Macrin , French poet (born 1490 )
- --- Kamran Mirza , Mughal prince (born 1509 )
: ''See also .''
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