December 7 – Frederik Coning, Dutch Golden Age member of the Haarlem schutterij (d. 1636) December 8 – Pierre Petit, French astronomer, military engineer, and physicist (d. 1677) December 9 – King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, Swedish king and general (d. 1632) December 21 – Robert Sutton, 1st Baron Lexinton, English politician (d. 1668) December 24 – Otto, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, Prince of Hesse-Kassel, Administrator of Hersfeld Abbey (d. 1617) December 27 – Ove Gjedde, Danish admiral, member of the interim government after the death of Christian IV (d. 1660) Date unknown John Bramhall, English Anglican clergyman and controversialist (d. 1663) Peter Oliver, English miniaturist (d. 1648) Tomasz Zamoyski, Polish nobleman (d. 1638) Probable Tarquinio Merula, Italian composer (d. 1665) Deaths February – Barnabe Googe, English poet (b. 1540) February 2 – Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Italian composer (b. 1525) February 8 – Countess Palatine Elisabeth of Simmern-Sponheim, Duchess of Saxony (b. 1540) April 16 – Ferdinando Stanley, 5th Earl of Derby (b. 1559), second in line to the throne of England April 29 – Thomas Cooper, English bishop, lexicographer, and writer (b. c. 1517) May 2 – Edward Atslowe, English physician May 15 – Charlotte de La Marck, French duchess (b. 1574) May 30 – Bálint Balassi, Hungarian writer and noble (b. 1554) May 31 Tintoretto, Italian painter (b. 1518) Francesco Panigarola, Italian bishop (b. 1548) June 3 – John Aylmer, English divine (b. 1521) June 7 – Rodrigo Lopez, Queen Elizabeth's physician (executed for treason) (b. 1525) June 14 – Orlande de Lassus, Flemish composer (b. 1532) June 29 – Niels Kaas, Danish chancellor (b. 1535) July – Girolamo Mei, Italian historian and humanist (b. 1519) July 10 – Paolo Bellasio, Italian composer and organist (b. 1554) August 5 – Archduchess Eleanor of Austria (b. 1534) October 8 – Ishikawa Goemon, Japanese ninja and thief (b. 1558) October 16 – William Allen, English cardinal (b. 1532) November 15 – Sir Martin Frobisher, British explorer (b. 1535) November 20 – Gaspar de Quiroga y Vela, General Inquisitor of Spain (b. 1512) November 29 – Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga, Basque soldier and poet (b. 1533) December 2 – Gerardus Mercator, Flemish-German cartographer (b. 1512) December 16 – Allison Balfour, alleged Scottish witch date unknown John Johnson, English lutenist and composer (b. c. 1545) Thomas Kyd, author of The Spanish Tragedy (b. 1558) References