de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxóchitl, Mexican historian (d. 1648) Gervase Markham, English poet and writer (d. 1637) Edward Somerset, 4th Earl of Worcester (d. 1628) Robert Wintour, English conspirator (executed 1606) Wei Zhongxian, Grand Secretary of China (d. 1627) Ōtsu Ono, Japanese woman poet, koto, and writer (believed to have learned how to write from Nobutada Konoe) (d. 1568) Deaths January 26 – Lady Catherine Grey, Countess of Hertford (b. 1540) February 15 – Hendrick van Brederode, Dutch reformer (b. 1531) March 20 Albert, Duke of Prussia (b. 1490) Anna Marie of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Duchess of Prussia (b. 1532) March 19 – Elizabeth Seymour, Lady Cromwell, English noblewoman (b.c. 1518)) May 23 – Adolf of Nassau, Count of Nassau, Dutch soldier (b. 1540) April 7 – Onofrio Panvinio, Italian Augustinian historian (b. 1529) April 27 – Giovanni Michele Saraceni, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1498) May 6 – Bernardo Salviati, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1508) May 15 – Anna of Lorraine (b. 1522) May 23 – Jean de Ligne, Duke of Arenberg (b. 1528) June 3 – Andrés de Urdaneta, Spanish explorer (b. 1508) June 5 Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Flemish statesman (b. 1522) Philip de Montmorency, Count of Horn (b. c. 1524) June 11 – Henry V, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and Prince of Wolfenbüttel 1514–1568 (b. 1489) July 1 – Levinus Lemnius, Dutch writer (b. 1505) July 6 – Johannes Oporinus, Swiss printer (b. 1507) July 7 – William Turner, British ornithologist and botanist (b. 1508) July 24 – Carlos, Prince of Asturias, son of Philip II of Spain (b. 1545) August 15 – Stanislaus Kostka, Polish saint (b. 1550) August 21 – Jean Parisot de Valette, 49th Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller (b. 1495) August 23 – Thomas Wharton, 1st Baron Wharton (b. 1495) September 26 – Leonor de Cisneros, Spanish Protestant (b. 1536) September – Anna Pehrsönernas moder, influential Swedish courtier (b. year unknown) September – Jöran Persson, Swedish politician (b. c. 1530) (executed) October 3 – Elisabeth of Valois, Queen of Philip II of Spain (b. 1545) October 14 – Jacques Arcadelt, Flemish composer (b. 1504) October 19 – Joannes Aurifaber Vratislaviensis, German theologian (b. 1517) October 28 – Ashikaga Yoshihide, Japanese shōgun (b. 1538) November 6 November 9 – John Radcliffe, English politician (b. 1539) Herman of Kazan and Svyazhsk, Archbishop of Kazan and later Metropolitan of Moscow Anna of Brunswick-Lüneburg, duchess consort of Pomerania (b. 1502) December