1517) March 8 – Paul Luther, German scientist (b. 1533) March 23 – Henry Barrowe, English Puritan and separatist (b. 1550) April 6 – John Greenwood, English Puritan and separatist (hanged) (b. 1556) April 24 – William Harrison, English clergyman (b. 1534) May 29 – John Penry, Welsh Protestant (hanged) (b. 1559) May 30 – Christopher Marlowe, English poet and playwright (murdered) (b. 1564) June 3 – Katarina Bengtsdotter Gylta, Swedish abbess (b. 1520) June 25 – Michele Mercati, Italian physician and botanist (b. 1541) July 4 – Min Phalaung, Burmese monarch (b. 1535) July 11 – Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Italian painter (b. 1527) September 5 – Andreas von Auersperg, Carniolan noble and military commander in the battle of Sisak (b. 1556) September 25 – Henry Stanley, 4th Earl of Derby, English nobleman, diplomat and politician (b. 1531) October 25 – Gómez Pérez Dasmariñas, Spanish colonial administrator (murdered) (b. 1519) November 11 – Albert, Count of Nassau-Weilburg (b. 1537) November 20 – Hans Bol, Flemish artist (b. 1534) date unknown Jeong Cheol, Korean administrator and poet (b. 1536) Krzysztof Kosiński, Polish noble (b. 1545) Li Shizhen, Chinese physician, pharmacologist, and mineralogist (b. 1518) References