of William Shakespeare (b. 1585) September 9 – Anna Jagiellon, queen of Poland (b. 1523) September 14 – Francisco de Toledo, Spanish Catholic cardinal (b. 1532) September 15 – Leonhard Rauwolf, German physician and botanist (b. 1535) October 3 – Florent Chrestien, French writer (b. 1541) October 26 – István Esterházy, Hungarian noble (b. 1572) November 1 – Pierre Pithou, French lawyer and scholar (b. 1539) November 10 – Peter Wentworth, English Puritan politician (b. 1530) November 29 William Gibson (martyr), English Catholic martyr Venerable William Knight, English Catholic martyr (b. 1572) December 27 – Pietro Pontio, Italian music theorist and composer (b. 1532) date unknown Jean Bodin, French jurist (born 1530) Anna Wecker, German writer Hattori Hanzō, Japanese ninja under Tokugawa Ieyasu (b. 1541) probable – Henry Willobie, English poet (b. 1575) References Leap years in the Gregorian calendar