– Patrick Forbes, bishop in the Church of Scotland (d. 1635) September 13 – Vincenzo Giustiniani, Italian banker and art collector (d. 1637) September 24 – William Adams, English navigator and samurai (d. 1620) September 25 – Magnus Brahe, Swedish noble (d. 1633) September 28 – Sibylla of Anhalt, Duchess consort of Württemberg (1593-1608). (d. 1614) October 15 – Henry Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1589-1613) (d. 1613) October 26 – Hans Leo Hassler, German composer and organist (d. 1612) November 3 (baptized) – Francisco Pacheco, Spanish artist (d. 1644) November 11 – Martinus Smiglecius, Polish philosopher (d. 1618) November 22 – Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham, English peer and traitor (d. 1618) November 24 – Joseph Gaultier de la Vallette, French astronomer (d. 1647) December 25 Johannes Buxtorf, German Calvinist theologian (d. 1629) Nicolaus Mulerius, Dutch astronomer and medical academic (d. 1630) December 31 – Ernest II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, German ruler (d. 1611) approximate date – Xue Susu, Chinese artist date unknown Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Flemish painter (d. 1638) Daniel Chamier, French minister of religion (d. 1621) Kryštof Harant z Polžic a Bezdružic, Bohemian composer and Protestant rebel (d. 1621) Pedro Páez, Spanish Jesuit missionary to Ethiopia (d. 1622) Thomas Shirley, English privateer (d. c.1634) probable Henry Chettle, English dramatist (d. 1607) Deaths January 9 – Margaret Howard, Duchess of Norfolk (b. 1540) February 18 – Michelangelo, Italian artist, architect and sculptor (b. 1475) February 19 – Guillaume Morel, French classical scholar (b. 1505) March 27 – Lütfi Pasha, Albanian-born Ottoman statesman, juridical scholar and poet of slave origin (b. c.1488) April – Pierre Belon, French naturalist (b. 1517) April 9 – Georg Hartmann, German instrument maker (b. 1489) May 2 – Cardinal Rodolfo Pio da Carpi, Italian humanist (b. 1500) May 27 – John Calvin, French Protestant reformer (b. 1509) June 24 – Rani Durgavati, Indian queen (b. 1524) July 23 – Eléanor de Roucy de Roye, French noble (b. 1535) July 25 – Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1503) July 31 – Luís de Velasco, Viceroy of New Spain (b. 1511) August 10 – Miyoshi Nagayoshi, Japanese samurai and daimyō (b. 1522) August 30 – Duchess Sabina of Bavaria (b. 1492) October 5 – Pierre de Manchicourt, Flemish composer October 6 – Guido Ascanio Sforza di Santa Fiora, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1518) October 15 – Andreas Vesalius, Flemish anatomist (b. 1514) October 18 –