Amalia von Hatzfeld, Swedish countess governor (d. 1628) Lieven de Key, Dutch architect (d. 1627) Ishida Mitsunari, Japanese samurai (d. 1600) Hugh Myddelton, Welsh businessman (d. 1631) Anton Praetorius, German pastor (d. 1613) probable Jan Karol Chodkiewicz, Polish military commander (d. 1621) Adam Haslmayr, Tyrolean commentator on Rosicrucian manifestos (d. 1630) Ketevan the Martyr, Georgian queen and saint (d. 1624) Marietta Robusti, Venetian Renaissance painter (d. 1590) Deaths January 1 – Joachim du Bellay, French poet (b. 1522) January 8 – Jan Łaski, Polish Protestant evangelical reformer (b. 1499) January 22 – Wang Zhi, Chinese pirate February 7 – Bartolommeo Bandinelli, Florentine sculptor (b. 1493) February 14 – Philip I, Duke of Pomerania-Wolgast (b. 1515) February 16 – Jean du Bellay, French cardinal and diplomat (b. 1493) March 5 – Pedro Pacheco de Villena, Spanish Catholic cardinal (b. 1488) April 19 – Philip Melanchthon, German humanist and reformer (b. 1497) June 11 – Mary of Guise, queen of James V of Scotland and regent (b. 1515) June 12 Imagawa Yoshimoto, Japanese daimyō (b. 1519) Ii Naomori, Japanese warrior (b. 1506) August 4 – Maeda Toshimasa, Japanese samurai August 7 – Anastasia Romanovna, Tsarina of Russia, married to Russian Tsar Ivan the Terrible (b. 1530) September 8 – Amy Robsart, English noblewoman (b. 1532) September 14 – Anton Fugger, German merchant (b. 1493) September 29 – King Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1496) September 30 – Melchor Cano, Spanish theologian (b. 1525) November 7 – Petrus Lotichius Secundus, German Neo-Latin poet (b. 1528) November 25 – Andrea Doria, Italian naval commander (b. 1466) December 2 – Georg Sabinus, German writer (b. 1508) December 5 – King Francis II of France (b. 1544) December 7 – Ernest of Bavaria, pledge lord of the County of Glatz (b. 1500) Date unknown – Benvenida Abrabanel, philanthropist and businesswoman. References