Year was a Common Year Starting On Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian Calendar .
- January 22 - Robert Bruce Cotton , English politician (died 1631 )
- April 13 - Guy Fawkes , English conspirator (died 1606 )
- June 13 - Paul Peuerl , German organist (died 1625 )
- October 4 - Péter Pázmány , Hungarian cardinal and statesman (died 1637 )
- November 28 - James Whitelocke , English judge (died 1632 )
- ''date unknown''
- --- Diego Aduarte , Prior of Manila (died 1637 )
- --- Robert Ayton , Scottish poet (died 1638 )
- --- John Cooper , English composer and lutenist (died 1626 )
- --- John Farmer , English composer (died 1601 )
- --- Simon Grahame , English adventurer (died 1614 )
- --- Nakagawa Hidenari , Japanese daimyo (died 1612 )
- --- Hans Lippershey , Dutch lensmaker (died 1619 )
- --- Asprilio Pacelli , Italian Baroque composer (died 1623 )
- --- Girolamo Rainaldi , Italian architect (died 1655 )
- --- Salamone Rossi , Italian violinist and composer (died 1630 )
- --- John Smyth , English Baptist minister (died 1612 )
- --- Chief Powhatan , Indian Chief from Alonquian tribe (died 1620 )
: ''See also .''
- January 8 - Philibert De L'Orme , French architect (born 1510 )
- January 23 - James Stewart, 1st Earl Of Moray , regent of Scotland (assassinated) (born c 1531 )
- July 1 - Zofia Tarnowska , Polish noblewoman (born 1534 )
- July 25 - Ivan Mikhailovich Viskovatyi , Russian diplomat
- October 1 - Frans Floris , Flemish painter (born 1520 )
- October 18 - Manoel Da Nóbrega , Portuguese Jesuit in Brazil (born 1517 )
- October 20 - João De Barros , Portuguese historian (born 1496 )
- November 27 - Jacopo Sansovino , Italian sculptor and architect (born 1486 )
- ''date unknown''
- --- François Bonivard , Swiss patriot and historian (born 1496 )
- --- Paris Bordone , Venetian painter (born 1495 )
- --- Jacques Grévin , French dramatist (born 1539 )
- --- Yi Hwang , Korean Confucian scholar (born 1501 )
- --- Aonio Paleario , Italian humanist and reformer (born 1500 )
- --- Francesco Primaticcio , Italian painter, architect, and sculptor (born 1504 )
- --- Tomás De Santa María , Spanish music theorist
: ''See also .''
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