15 – Annibale Padovano, Italian composer and organist (b. 1527) March 17 – Georg Cracow, German lawyer and politician (b. 1525) March 24 – Yosef Karo, Spanish-born Jewish rabbi. Author of the book "Shulchan Aruch" (b. 1488) May 17 – Matthew Parker, English Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1504) May 28 – Sophia Jagiellon, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg (b. 1522) June 3 – Francisco de Ibarra, Spanish explorer and colonial governor in Mexico (b. c. 1539) June 7 – Sir George Heron, English politician June 28 – Yonekura Shigetsugu, Japanese samurai June 29 Baba Nobuharu, Japanese samurai Hara Masatane, Japanese samurai (b. 1531) Naito Masatoyo, Japanese samurai (b. 1522) Sanada Nobutsuna, Japanese samurai (b. 1537) Takeda Nobuzane, Japanese daimyō Yamagata Masakage, Japanese samurai (b. 1524) July 14 – Richard Taverner, English Bible translator (b. 1505) July 29 – Jon Simonssøn, Norwegian humanist (b. 1512) August 2 – Christopher II, Margrave of Baden-Rodemachern (b. 1537) September 17 – Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss religious reformer (b. 1504) September 24 – Anna of Oldenburg, Regent of East Frisia (b. 1501) October 17 – Gaspar Cervantes de Gaeta, Spanish Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1511) October 20 – Kaspar Eberhard, German theologian (b. 1523) October 24 – Peder Oxe, Danish finance minister (b. 1520) November 2 – Sabina of Brandenburg-Ansbach, German princess (b. 1529) December 1 – Diego Andrada de Payva, Portuguese theologian (b. 1528) December 23 – Akiyama Nobutomo, Japanese retainer (b. 1531) December 31 – Pierino Belli, Italian soldier and jurist (b. 1502) date unknown Constantio Varoli, Italian anatomist (b. 1543) Isabel de Josa, Catalan writer (b. 1508) In fiction The conclusion of the events of the film Kagemusha by Akira Kurosawa takes place in this year. References