Stephen Gosson, English satirist (d. 1624) April 15 – Simon VI, Count of Lippe, Count of Lippe-Detmold (1563-1613) (d. 1613) May 20 – Paolo Bellasio, Italian composer (d. 1594) June 3 – Pietro de' Medici, Italian noble (d. 1604) June 5 – Benedetto Giustiniani, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1621) June 21 – Joachim of Zollern, Titular Count of Hohenzollern (d. 1587) July 5 – Elisabeth of Austria, Queen of France (d. 1592) October 1 – Leonardus Lessius, Jesuit theologian (d. 1623) October 3 – Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, English poet (d. 1628) October 10 – Arnold III, Count of Bentheim-Steinfurt-Tecklenburg-Limburg and Lord of Rheda (d. 1606) October 20 – Bálint Balassi, Hungarian writer and noble (d. 1594) October 28 – Enevold Kruse, Danish noble (d. 1621) October 30 – Prospero Farinacci, Italian jurist (d. 1618) November 30 – Sir Philip Sidney, English courtier and poet (d. 1586) December 17 – Ernest of Bavaria, Roman Catholic bishop (d. 1612) December 19 – Philip William, Prince of Orange (d. 1618) date unknown Jacques Bongars, French scholar and diplomat (d. 1612) James Lancaster, English navigator (d. 1618) Walter Raleigh, English writer, poet, and explorer (d. 1618) Francis Throckmorton, English conspirator (d. 1584) Deaths January 2 – João Manuel, Prince of Portugal, Portuguese prince (b. 1537) January 11 – Min Bin, king of Arakan (b. 1493) January 16 Christiern Pedersen, Danish humanist (b. c. 1480) Ambrosius Moibanus, German theologian (b. 1494) February 12 Lord Guildford Dudley, consort of Lady Jane Grey (executed) (b. 1536) Lady Jane Grey, claimant to the throne of England (executed) (b. 1537) February 21 Hieronymus Bock, German botanist (b. 1498) Sibylle of Cleves, Electress consort of Saxony (b. 1512) February 23 – Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English politician (executed) (b. c.1515) March 3 – John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony (b. 1503) April 11 – Thomas Wyatt the Younger, English rebel (executed) (b. 1521) April 23 – Gaspara Stampa, Italian poet (b. 1523) May 2 – William Waldegrave, English Member of Parliament (b. 1507) June 19 Sixt Birck, German humanist (b. 1501) Philip II, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken, German noble (b. 1509) June 28 – Leone Strozzi, French Navy admiral (b. 1515) August 25 – Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, English politician (b. 1473) September 22 – Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, Spanish conquistador (b. c. 1510) December 22 – Alessandro Bonvicino, Italian painter (b. 1498) December –