Sōrin, Japanese Christian daimyō (b. 1530) June 15 – Frederick II, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (b. 1568) June 23 – Ōmura Sumitada, Japanese Christian daimyō (b. 1533) July 7 – Joachim of Zollern, Titular Count of Hohenzollern (b. 1554) July 28 – Godfried van Mierlo, Dutch Dominican friar and bishop (b. 1518) August 14 – Guglielmo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua (b. 1538) August 29 – Vincenzo Bellavere, Italian composer (b. c. 1540) September 3 – Henry Cheyne, 1st Baron Cheyne, English politician and baron (b. 1540) September 19 – Jacobus Pamelius, Belgian bishop (b. 1536) October 19 – Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1541) October 20 – Anne de Joyeuse, Duke of Joyeuse, French commander, (b. 1560) November 1 – Alfonso d'Este, Lord of Montecchio, Italian nobleman (b. 1527) November 10 – Abe Motozane, Japanese warlord (b. 1513) November 13 – Hai Rui, Ming Dynasty "model official" (b. 1514) December 11 – Andreas Gaill, German jurist and statesman (b. 1526) date unknown Dudley Fenner, English Puritan divine (b. c. 1558) Jan Tarło, Polish nobleman (b. 1527) probable – George Whetstone, English writer (b. 1544) References Huang, Ray. 1587, a Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in Decline (Yale University Press, 1982), on China during the Ming dynasty. Ott, Michael R. Fünfzehnhundertsiebenundachtzig: Literatur, Geschichte und die Historia von D. Johann Fausten (Frankfurt am Main, 2014) online.