of Atholl May 6 – François de Montmorency, French nobleman (b. 1530) May 20 – Isabella Markham, English courtier (b. 1527) June 17 – Johannes Stadius, German astronomer, astrologer, mathematician (b. 1527) June 25 – Hatano Hideharu, Japanese samurai (b. 1541) July 3 – Edward Fitton, the elder, Irish politician (b. 1527) August 5 – Stanislaus Hosius, Polish Catholic cardinal (b. 1504) August 12 – Domenico Bollani, Bishop of Milan (b. 1514) October 11 – Sokollu Mehmed Pasha, Turkish Janissary and Grand Vizier (b. 1505) October 13 – William Drury, English politician (b. 1527) October 21 – Tanegashima Tokitaka, Japanese Daimyo (b. 1528) October 24 – Albert V, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1528) November 9 – Philip VI, Count of Waldeck (1567–1579) (b. 1551) November 15 – Francis David, Hungarian religious reformer (b. 1510) November 21 – Thomas Gresham, English merchant and financier (b. 1519) date unknown Giovanni Battista Adriani, Italian historian (b. c. 1512) Diego de Landa, Spanish Bishop of the Yucatán (b. 1524) Hieronim Jarosz Sieniawski, Polish noble (b. 1516) Barbara Thenn, Austrian merchant and Münzmeister (b. 1519) William Whittingham, English Biblical scholar and religious reformer (b. 1524) Voravongsa I, Laotian king of Lan Xang probable - Hans Staden, German adventurer (b. 1525) References