violinist and composer (d. 1630) John Smyth, English Baptist minister (d. 1612) Chief Powhatan, Algonquin chief (d. 1620) Claudia Sessa, Italian composer (d. 1617/19) Katharina Henot, German General Postmaster and alleged witch (d. 1627) Urszula Meyerin, politically influential Polish courtier (d. 1635) Christina Rauscher, German official and critic of witchcraft persecutions (d. 1618) Deaths January 8 – Philibert de l'Orme, French architect (b. 1510) January 23 – James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, regent of Scotland (assassinated) (b. c.1531) February 13 – Eleonora Gonzaga, Duchess of Urbino, politically active Italian duchess (b. 1493) February 20 – Johannes Scheubel, German mathematician (b. 1494) March 1 – Bernhard VII, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (b. 1540) March 16 – Ippolita Gonzaga, Italian nun (b. 1503) April 13 – Daniele Barbaro, Italian architect (b. 1514) July 3 – Aonio Paleario, Italian humanist and reformer (executed) (b. c. 1500) July 25 – Ivan Mikhailovich Viskovatyi, Russian diplomat August 4 – Marie Catherine Gondi, French court official (b. c. 1500) September 6 – Agostino Gallo, Italian agronomist (b. 1499) September 11 – Johannes Brenz, German theologian and Protestant Reformer (b. 1499) October 1 – Frans Floris, Flemish painter (b. 1520) October 18 – Manuel da Nóbrega, Portuguese Jesuit missionary in Brazil (b. 1517) October 20 João de Barros, Portuguese historian (b. 1496) Francesco Laparelli, Italian architect (b. 1521) November – Jacques Grévin, French dramatist (b. 1539) November 21 – Ruxandra Lăpușneanu, Moldavian regent (b. 1538) November 27 – Jacopo Sansovino, Italian sculptor and architect (b. 1486) December 15 – Frederick III of Legnica, Duke of Legnica (b. 1520) date unknown François Bonivard, Swiss patriot and historian (b. 1496) Francesco Primaticcio, Italian painter, architect, and sculptor (b. 1504) Tomás de Santa María, Spanish music theorist References