German politician (b. 1520) September 10 – Richard Grenville, English soldier and explorer (b. 1542) September 19 – Alonso de Orozco Mena, Spanish Catholic priest (b. 1500) September 25 – Christian I, Elector of Saxony (b. 1560) September 29 – Count Johan II of East Frisia (b. 1538) October 15 – Duke Otto Henry of Brunswick-Harburg, Hereditary Prince of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Harburg (b. 1555) October 16 – Pope Gregory XIV (b. 1535) November 20 – Christopher Hatton, English politician (b. 1540) December 14 – Saint John of the Cross, Spanish Carmelite friar and poet (b. 1542) December 18 – Marigje Arriens, Dutch woman executed for witchcraft (b. c. 1520) December 30 – Pope Innocent IX (b. 1519) Date unknown Ananias Dare, father of Virginia Dare, (b. circa 1560) Virginia Dare, first English child born in America, (b. 1587) (Unverified) Crispin van den Broeck, Flemish painter (b. 1523) John Erskine of Dun, Scottish religious reformer (b. 1509) Toyotomi Hidenaga, Japanese nobleman (b. 1540) John Stubbs, English pamphleteer (b. 1543) Veronica Franco, Italian poet and courtesan (b. 1546) References