Provençale lover of Marguerite de Valois (b. 1530) May 14 – Guru Amar Das, third Sikh Guru (b. 1479) May 3 – Giovanni Ricci, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1498) May 30 – King Charles IX of France (b. 1550) June 12 – Renée of France, French princess (b. 1510) June 14 – John III the Terrible, Voivoide of Moldavia (b. 1521) June 26 – Gabriel, comte de Montgomery, captain of the Scottish Guard of Henry II of France (b. 1530) June 27 – Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter and architect (b. 1511) July 26 – Birgitte Gøye, Danish county administrator, lady in waiting, landholder and educator (b. 1511) August 23 – Ebussuud Efendi, Ottoman Grand Mufti (b. 1490) August 27 – Bartolomeo Eustachi, Italian anatomist September 1 – Louis, Count of Stolberg, German noble (b. 1505) September 4 – Charles de Mornay, Swedish (originally French) court official, diplomat and royal favorite (b. 1514) September 15 – Margaret of France, Duchess of Berry (b. 1523) September 17 – Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, Spanish admiral and explorer (b. 1519) September 26 – Elisabeth of Anhalt-Zerbst, Abbess of Gernrode and Frose, Countess of Barby-Mühlingen (b. 1545) September 28 – Guidobaldo II della Rovere, Duke of Urbino, Italian condottiero (b. 1514) October 1 – Maarten van Heemskerck, Dutch painter (b. 1498) November 23 – John III, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken, German noble (b. 1511) November 28 – Georg Major, German Protestant theologian (b. 1502) December 4 – Georg Joachim Rheticus, German mathematician and cartographer (b. 1514) December 12 – Selim II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1524) December 26 – Charles, Cardinal of Lorraine (b. 1524) date unknown Hans Eworth, Flemish painter (b. 1520) Martin de Goiti, Spanish conquistador References