Shrewsbury; Leeds Grammar School is also established. Births January 14 – Alberico Gentili, Italian jurist (d. 1608) January 22 – Walter Raleigh, English explorer (d. 1618) February 1 – Edward Coke, English colonial entrepreneur and jurist (d. 1634) February 8 – Agrippa d'Aubigné, French poet and soldier (d. 1630) February 19 – Melchior Klesl, Austrian statesman and cardinal (d. 1630) February 20 – Sengoku Hidehisa, Japanese daimyō (d. 1614) February 25 – Magdalene of Lippe, Countess of Lippe by birth, and by marriage Landgravine of Hesse-Darmstadt (d. 1587) February 28 – Joost Bürgi, Swiss clockmaker and mathematician (d. 1632) March 1 – Anna of Cleves, Duchess of Jülich-Cleves-Berg by birth and by marriage Countess Palatine of Neuburg (d. 1632) March 18 – Polykarp Leyser the Elder, German theologian (d. 1610) March 20 – Christoph, Count of Hohenzollern-Haigerloch (d. 1592) April 20 – Frederick IV of Liegnitz, German noble (d. 1596) May 8 – Petrus Ryff, Swiss scientist (d. 1629) May 12 – Edmund Bowyer, English politician (d. 1627) June 2 – Raja Wodeyar I, King of Mysore (d. 1617) June 8 – Gabriello Chiabrera, Italian poet (d. 1638) June 17 – John George of Ohlau, Duke of Oława and Wołów (1586-1592) (d. 1592) June 29 – Elizabeth Spencer, Baroness Hunsdon, English baroness (d. 1618) July 18 – Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1612) July 22 Anthony Browne, Sheriff of Surrey and Kent (d. 1592) Mary Wriothesley, Countess of Southampton, Lady of English peer and others (d. 1607) August 14 – Paolo Sarpi, Italian writer (d. 1623) August 21 – Muhammad Qadiri, Founder of the Naushahia branch of the Qadri order (d. 1654) August 24 – Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter (d. 1614) September 12 – Andreas Schott, Flemish academic, linguist, translator, editor and a Jesuit priest (d. 1629) September 20 – Lorenz Scholz von Rosenau, German botanist (d. 1599) September 21 – Barbara Longhi, Italian painter (d. 1638) September 22 – Tsar Vasili IV of Russia (d. 1612) September 27 – Flaminio Scala, Italian playwright and stage actor (d. 1624) October 6 – Matteo Ricci, Italian Jesuit missionary to China (d. 1610) October 11 – Tsarevich Dmitry Ivanovich of Russia, Grand Prince of Moscow (d. 1553) October 18 Elisabeth of Saxony, Countess Palatine of Simmern (d. 1590) Francis Cherry, English diplomat (d. 1605) October 23 – Odet de Turnèbe, French dramatist (d. 1581) October 28 – Simón de Rojas, Spanish