Portuguese artist (b. 1517) June 22 – Simon Sulzer, Swiss theologian (b. 1508) July 6 – Thomas Aufield, English Catholic martyr (b. 1552) July 28 – Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford, English nobleman, soldier and politician (b. 1527) c. July? – Shimon Lavi, Sephardi kabbalist (b. 1486) August 5 or August 6 – Yermak Timofeyevich, Cossack leader and explorer of Siberia September 6 – Luca Cambiasi, Italian painter (b. 1527) October 1 – Anne of Denmark, Electress of Saxony (b. 1532) October 19 – Johannes Crato von Krafftheim, German humanist and physician (b. 1519) October 29 – Özdemiroğlu Osman Pasha, Ottoman (Turkish) grand vizier (b. 1526) November 2 – Tachibana Dōsetsu, Japanese daimyō (b. 1513) November 23 – Thomas Tallis, English composer (b. c. 1510) November 28 – Hernando Franco, Spanish composer (b. 1532) December – Pierre de Ronsard, French poet (b. 1524) December 4 – John Willock, Scottish reformer (b. c. 1515) December 22 – Vittoria Accoramboni, Italian noblewoman (b. 1557) approx. date – Qiu Zhu, Chinese painter date unknown Taqi ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf, Turkish scientist (b. 1526) Stanisław Lubomirski, Polish nobleman Nguyễn Bỉnh Khiêm, Vietnamese administrator, educator, poet, sage and later a saint of the Cao Dai religion (b. 1491) References