Cigoli, Italian painter (d. 1613) September 15 – Edmond Richer, French theologian (d. 1631) October 12 or October 22 – Jacques Sirmond, French Jesuit scholar (d. 1651) November 11 – Tokuhime, Japanese noble (d. 1636) November 12 – Yaza Datu Kalaya, Crown Princess of Burma (d. 1603) November 13 – Al-Mansur al-Qasim, Imam of Yemen (d. 1620) November 15 – Albert VII, Archduke of Austria, Governor of the Low Countries (d. 1621) December 14 – Lupercio Leonardo de Argensola, Spanish writer (d. 1613) date unknown George Chapman, English dramatist (d. 1634) Ikeda Motosuke, Japanese military commander (d. 1584) John Penry, Welsh Protestant martyr (d. 1593) Honinbo Sansa, Japanese player of Go (d. 1623) John Spenser, president of Corpus Christi College, Oxford (d. 1614) Deaths January – Christina Gyllenstierna, leading opponent of King Christian II of Denmark and Norway (b. 1494) January 1 – King Christian III of Denmark and Norway (b. 1503) January 25 – King Christian II of Denmark, Norway and Sweden (b. 1481) February 12 – Prince-elector Otto Henry of the Palatinate (b. 1502) March 8 – Thomas Tresham, English Catholic politician March 13 – Johann Gropper, German Catholic cardinal (b. 1503) March 16 – Anthony St. Leger, Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. 1496) March 23 – Emperor Gelawdewos of Ethiopia (in battle) (b. 1522) March 30 – Adam Ries, German mathematician (b. 1492) June 3 – Elisabeth of Nassau-Siegen, German noblewoman (b. 1488) July 10 – King Henry II of France (jousting accident) (b. 1519) August 18 – Pope Paul IV (b. 1476) September 7 – Robert Estienne, French printer (b. 1503) September 15 – Isabella Jagiellon, queen consort of Hungary (d. 1519) October 2 – Jacquet of Mantua, French composer (b. 1483) October 3 – Ercole II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, Italian noble (b. 1508) October 4 – Philip III, Count of Nassau-Weilburg (b. 1504) October 6 – William I, Count of Nassau-Siegen (b. 1487) November 5 – Kanō Motonobu, Japanese painter (b. 1476) November 10 – Jacob Milich, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1501) November 18 – Cuthbert Tunstall, English church leader (b. 1474) November 20 – Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk, English noblewoman and claimant to the throne of England (b. 1517) November 26 – Adolph of Nassau-Saarbrücken, Count of Nassau (b. 1526) December 17 – Irene di Spilimbergo, Italian Renaissance poet and painter (b. 1538) December 31 – Owen Oglethorpe, deposed English bishop