his legal wife. Catherine de'Medici marries Henri de Valois, second son of the king of France. Births January 2 – Johann Major, German poet and theologian (d. 1600) January 3 – Jerónimo Bautista Lanuza, Spanish friar, bishop and writer (d. 1624) January 6 – Timotheus Kirchner, German theologian (d. 1587) January 28 – Paul Luther, German scientist (d. 1593) February 5 – Andreas Dudith, Croatian-Hungarian nobleman and diplomat (d. 1589) February 9 – Shimazu Yoshihisa, Japanese samurai (d. 1611) February 16 – Gianfrancesco Gambara, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1587) February 28 – Michel de Montaigne, French essayist (d. 1592) March 10 – Francesco III Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua (d. 1550) April 5 – Giulio della Rovere, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1578) April 8 – Claudio Merulo, Italian composer and organist (d. 1604) April 24 – William I of Orange (d. 1584) May 2 – Philip II, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen (d. 1596) June 30 – Martín de Rada, Spanish missionary (d. 1578) July 10 – Antonio Possevino, Italian diplomat (d. 1611) August 2 – Theodor Zwinger, Swiss scholar (d. 1588) August 7 Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga, Basque soldier and poet (d. 1595) Valentin Weigel, German theologian (d. 1588). September 5 – Jacopo Zabarella, Italian philosopher (d. 1589) September 7 – Queen Elizabeth I of England, daughter of King Henry VIII of England (d. 1603) September 15 – Catherine of Austria, Queen of Poland (d. 1572) September 27 – Stefan Batory, King of Poland (d. 1586) October 9 – Henry V, Burgrave of Plauen (d. 1568) October 12 – Asakura Yoshikage, Japanese ruler (d. 1573) October 14 – Anna of Mecklenburg, duchess consort of Courland (1566-1587) (d. 1602) November 22 – Alfonso II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, Italian noble (d. 1597) December 13 – King Eric XIV of Sweden (d. 1577) date unknown – Eknath, Indian Marathi saint (d. 1599) probable Amina, Queen of Zazzua (d. 1610) Cornelis Cort, Dutch engraver (d. 1578) David Rizzio, Italian secretary of Mary, Queen of Scots (k. 1566) Deaths March 19 – John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, English soldier and statesman (b. 1467) April 10 – King Frederick I of Denmark (b. 1471) April 28 – Nicholas West, English bishop and diplomat (b. 1461) April 30 – John George, Marquis of Montferrat, Italian noble (b. 1488) June – Bayin Htwe, king of Prome in Burma June 25 – Mary Tudor, queen of Louis XII of