famose Poete Virgill, the first complete translation of any major work of classical antiquity into one of the English languages, is published in London. In Ming Dynasty China: The addition of a new section of the Outer City fortifications is completed in southern Beijing, bringing the overall size of Beijing to 18 square miles (4662 hectares). Shanghai is fortified for the first time. Births January 20 – Bernardino de Cárdenas y Portugal, Duque de Maqueda, Spanish noble (d. 1601) January 22 – Mōri Terumoto, Japanese warrior (d. 1625) February 24 – Cherubino Alberti, Italian engraver and painter (d. 1615) March – Eleonora di Garzia di Toledo, Italian noble (d. 1576) March 29 – Vitsentzos Kornaros, Greek writer (d. 1613) April 24 – John Maxwell, 8th Lord Maxwell, Scottish noble (d. 1593) April 29 – Mirza Muhammad Hakim, son of Mughal emperor Humayun and brother of emperor Akbar (d. 1585) April 30 – Louise of Lorraine, French queen consort (d. 1601) May 7 – Albert Frederick, Duke of Prussia (d. 1618) May 14 – Margaret of Valois, Queen of France (d. 1615) June 5 – Bernardino Baldi, Italian mathematician and writer (d. 1617) June 15 – Archduke Ernest of Austria, Austrian prince, the son of Maximilian II. (d. 1595) July 1 – Peter Street, English carpenter (d. 1609) September 26 – Nicolò Contarini, Doge of Venice (d. 1631) October 8 – Jacques Auguste de Thou, French historian (d. 1617) October 18 – Luca Marenzio, Italian composer (d. 1599) November 2 – Magdalene of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, Countess Palatine of Pfalz-Zweibrücken (d. 1633) November 4 – Roger Wilbraham, Solicitor-General for Ireland (d. 1616) November 23 – Prospero Alpini, Italian physician and botanist (d. 1617) November 28 – George More, English politician (d. 1632) December 13 – King Henry IV of France (d. 1610) date unknown Patriarch Filaret of Moscow and All Rus' (d. 1633) Giovanni Florio, English writer and translator (d. 1625) Richard Hakluyt, English travel writer (d. 1616) Robert Hues, English mathematician and geographer (d. 1632) Amago Katsuhisa, Japanese nobleman (d. 1578) Pierre de Rostegny, French jurist (d. 1631) William Russell, 1st Baron Russell of Thornhaugh, English military leader (d. 1613) Moses Székely, Hungarian noble (d. 1603) Beatrice Michiel, Venetian spy (d. 1613) Deaths January 13 – George II, Duke of Münsterberg-Oels, Count of Glatz (b. 1512) February 4 – Caspar Othmayr, German Protestant priest, theologian and composer (b. 1515) February 6 –