and mystic (d. 1635) Joshua Sylvester, English poet (d. 1618) Jean Titelouze, French organist and composer (d. 1633) Yi Su-gwang, Korean scholar (d. 1628) Deaths January 4 – Elisabeth of Hesse, Countess Palatine of Zweibrücken, later Countess Palatine of Simmern (b. 1503) February 1 – Emperor Menas of Ethiopia (fever) (b. 1559) February 4 – Wilhelm von Brandenburg, Archbishop of Riga (b. 1498) February 24 – Francis, Duke of Guise, French soldier and politician (shot) (b. 1519) March 2 – Ercole Gonzaga, Spanish Catholic cardinal (b. 1505) March 17 – Girolamo Seripando, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1493) March 19 – Arthur Brooke, English poet March 24 – Hosokawa Harumoto, Japanese military leader (b. 1514) March 28 – Heinrich Glarean, Swiss music theorist (b. 1488) April 15 – Bernhard VIII, Count of Lippe (b. 1527) April 30 – Henry Stafford, 1st Baron Stafford, English baron (b. 1501) May 21 – Martynas Mažvydas, author of the first printed book in Lithuanian (b. 1510) June 9 – William Paget, 1st Baron Paget, English statesman (b. 1506) June 24 – Prince Yuri of Uglich (b. 1532) August 11 – Bartolomé de Escobedo, Spanish composer (b. 1500) August 18 – Étienne de La Boétie, French judge and writer (b. 1530) August 30 – Wolfgang Musculus, German theologian (b. 1497) September 17 – Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland, English soldier (b. 1526) October 31 – Anthony Kitchin, British bishop (b. 1471) November John Bale, English churchman (b. 1495) Ioan Iacob Heraclid, ruler of Moldavia (b. 1511) December 1 – Yi Gwang-sik, Korean politician and general (b. 1493) December 29 Sebastian Castellio, French theologian (b. 1515) Thomas Naogeorgus, German playwright (b. 1508) date unknown Odet de Selve, French diplomat (b. c. 1504) Elizabeth Seymour, Marchioness of Winchester, English noblewoman (b. 1513) References