elder, Italian composer (b. 1543) August 30 – Margaret Ward, English saint (birthdate unknown) August 31 – Juliana of Nassau-Dillenburg, Dutch prince (b. 1546) September 3 – Richard Tarlton, English actor (b. 1530) September 4 – Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, English politician (b. 1532) September 25 – Tilemann Heshusius, German Gnesio-Lutheran theologian (b. 1527) September 26 – Amias Paulet, Governor of Jersey (b. 1532) October 1 – Edward James, English Catholic martyr (executed at Chichester) October 2 – Bernardino Telesio, Italian philosopher and natural scientist (b. 1509) October 23 – Juan Martínez de Recalde, Spanish admiral (b. c. 1540) November 1 – Jean Daurat, French poet and scholar (b. 1508) December 19 – Esther Handali, Ottoman businessperson December 23 – Henry I, Duke of Guise, French Catholic leader (b. 1550) December 24 – Louis II, Cardinal of Guise, French Catholic cardinal (b. 1555) date unknown Diego Durán, Dominican friar and historian in colonial Mexico (b. c. 1537). John Field, British Puritan clergyman and controversialist (b. 1545) Sonam Gyatso, 3rd Dalai Lama, the first Dalai Lama to use the title (b. 1543) Plautilla Nelli, Italian painter (b. 1524) Edwin Sandys, English prelate (b. 1519) Kenau Simonsdochter Hasselaer, Dutch war heroine (b. 1526) References Leap years in the Gregorian calendar