(b. 1527) March 14 – Elisabeth of Hesse, Electress Palatine by marriage (1576-1582) (b. 1539) March 18 – Juan Jauregui, attempted assassin of William I of Orange (b. 1562) March 22 – Daniel Brendel von Homburg, Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1522) March 29 – Philip de' Medici, Italian noble, Grand Prince of Tuscany (b. 1577) April 3 – Takeda Katsuyori, Japanese daimyō of Takeda Clan (b. 1546) April 16 – Oyamada Nobushige, Japanese samurai (b. 1545) April 21 – Francisco de Toledo, Spanish soldier and politician (b. 1515) May 3 – Giorgio Mainerio, Italian composer (b. 1530) May 5 – Charlotte of Bourbon, Princess consort of Orange, married to William I of Orange (b. 1547) June 13 – Matteo Tafuri, Italian alchemist (b. 1492) June 21 Oda Nobunaga, Japanese daimyō of the Oda Clan (b. 1534) (forced suicide) Oda Nobutada, Japanese samurai, oldest son of Nobunaga (b. 1557) (forced suicide) Anayama Nobukimi, Japanese military commander (b. 1541) June 23 – Shimizu Muneharu, Japanese military commander (b. 1537) July 2 – Akechi Mitsuhide, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1528) July 3 – James Crichton, Scottish scholar (b. 1560) July 7 – Kawajiri Hidetaka, Japanese samurai (b. 1527) July 17 – Jacques Peletier du Mans, French mathematician (b. 1517) September 23 – Louis, Duke of Montpensier (b. 1513) September 28 – George Buchanan, Scottish humanist scholar (b. 1506) October 4 – Teresa of Ávila, Spanish Carmelite nun, poet and saint (b. 1515) October 21 – Laurent Joubert, French physician (b. 1529) November 21 – Diego, Prince of Asturias, Portuguese prince (b. 1575) December 11 – Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba, Spanish general (b. 1507) Date unknown: Wu Cheng'en, Chinese novelist and poet of the Ming dynasty Hans Hendrik van Paesschen, Flemish architect (b. 1510) Zhang Juzheng, Ming dynasty official (b. 1525) Takeda Nobukado, Japanese samurai (b. 1529) Sen Soulintha, Laotian king of Lan Xang (b. 1511) Anthony Lorinthia Geriasarch, Prussian general (b. 1493) References