Date unknown Tsar Feodor II of Russia (d. 1605) Yönten Gyatso, 4th Dalai Lama John Bankes, Attorney General and Chief Justice to King Charles I of England (d. 1644) Jusepa Vaca, Spanish stage actress (d. 1653) Deaths January 5 – Catherine de' Medici, queen of Henry II of France (b. 1519) January 18 – Magnus Heinason, Faroese naval hero (b. 1545) February 19 – Philothei, Greek Orthodox religious sister, martyr and saint (b. 1522) March 2 – Alessandro Farnese, Italian cardinal (b. 1530) March 3 – Johannes Sturm, German educator (b. 1507) March 22 – Lodovico Guicciardini, Italian historian (b. 1521) March 23 – Marcin Kromer, Prince-Bishop of Warmia (b. 1512) April 26 – Benedict the Moor, Italian Franciscan friar and saint (b. 1526) May 3 – Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (b. 1528) May 17 – Charles II, Lord of Monaco (b. 1555) May 20 – Anna Maria of Brandenburg-Ansbach, German princess (b. 1526) July 1 – Lady Saigō, Japanese concubine (b. 1552) July 16 – Petrus Peckius the Elder, Dutch jurist, writer on international maritime law (b. 1529) July 29 – Maria of the Palatinate-Simmern, Duchess consort of Södermanland (1579-1589) (b. 1561) August 1 – Jacques Clément, French assassin of Henry III of France (b. 1567) August 2 – King Henry III of France (b. 1551) September 16 – Michael Baius, Flemish theologian (b. 1513) September 19 – Jean-Antoine de Baïf, French poet (b. 1532) October 1 – William Darrell of Littlecote, English politician (b. 1539) October 15 – Jacopo Zabarella, Italian philosopher (b. 1532) November 15 – Philipp Apian, German mathematician and medic (b. 1531) December 10 – Henry Compton, 1st Baron Compton, English politician (b. 1544) December 12 – Francisco Balbi di Correggio, Italian soldier in the service of Spain during the Siege of Malta (b. 1505) Date unknown Pietro de' Mariscalchi, Italian painter (b. 1520) Tansen, Indian musician (b. 1506) Heo Nanseolheon, Korean poet (b. 1563) Charles Dançay, French diplomat (b. 1510) References