in Eastern Europe. Births January 4 – Archduchess Catherine Renata of Austria, Austrian archduchess (d. 1599) January 5 – Anne Turner, English murderer (d. 1615) January 12 – Petrus Scriverius, Dutch writer and scholar on the history of Holland and Belgium (d. 1660) February 2 – Alix Le Clerc, French Canoness Regular and foundress (d. 1622) February 10 – Festus Hommius, Dutch theologian (d. 1642) February 29 – Antonio Neri, Italian chemist (d. 1614) March 14 – Eric of Lorraine, Bishop of Verdun (d. 1623) March 31 – Countess Louise Juliana of Nassau, countess consort and a regent of the Palatinate (d. 1644) May 17 – Joam Mattheus Adami, Italian Jesuit missionary (d. 1633) May 24 – Elizabeth Carey, Lady Berkeley, English courtier (d. 1635) May 27 – Caspar Schoppe, German controversialist and scholar (d. 1649) June 6 – Giovanni Diodati, Swiss-born Italian Calvinist theologian and translator (d. 1649) June 16 – Giovanni Battista Viola, Italian painter (d. 1622) July 3 – Duchess Anna of Prussia, Electress consort of Brandenburg and Duchess consort of Prussia (d. 1625) September 22 – Philipp of Bavaria, German Catholic cardinal (d. 1598) October – Thomas Weelkes, English composer and organist (d. 1626) October 6 – Roger Manners, 5th Earl of Rutland, eldest surviving son of John Manners (d. 1612) October 7 – John Marston, English writer (d. 1634) October 12 – Thomas Dudley, Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony (d. 1653) October 28 – Rudolph, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst, Prince of Anhalt (1586–1603), then Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (1603–1621) (d. 1621) October 30 – Enrico Caterino Davila, Italian historian and diplomat (d. 1631) November 6 – Charles Günther, Count of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (1605–1630) (d. 1630) November 17 – Roque Gonzales, Paraguayan missionary (d. 1628) November 18 – Philipp Ludwig II, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg (1580–1612) (d. 1612) November 27 – Shimazu Tadatsune, Japanese ruler of Satsuma (d. 1638) December 20 – Saint John Sarkander, Moravian priest (d. 1620) date unknown William Ames, English Protestant philosopher (d. 1633) John Carver, first governor of Plymouth Colony (d. 1621) Giulio Cesare la Galla, professor of philosophy at the Collegio Romano in Italy (d. 1624) Santino Solari, Swiss architect and sculptor (d. 1646) probable – Jesper Mattson Cruus af Edeby, Swedish soldier and politician (d. 1622) Deaths January 19 – Hans Sachs, German Meistersinger (b. 1494) January 27 – Mizuno Nobumoto, Japanese shōgun February 10 – Wilhelm/Guilielmus Xylander, German classical scholar (b. 1532)