saint in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (d. 1642) Sara Copia Sullam, Italian poet and writer (d. 1641) Probable Étienne Brûlé, French explorer in Canada (d. 1632) Deaths January 5 – William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, German nobleman (b. 1516) January 22 – Elisabeth of Austria, Queen of France (b. 1554) January 27 – Gian Paolo Lomazzo, Italian painter (b. 1538) February 2 – Ana de Mendoza, Princess of Eboli, Spanish noble (b. 1540) February 29 – Alessandro Striggio, Italian composer (b. 1540) March 4 – Christopher, Duke of Mecklenburg and administrator of Ratzeburg (b. 1537) March 5 – Michiel Coxie, Flemish painter (b. 1499) March 22 – Johann VII, Duke of Mecklenburg, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1576–1592) (b. 1558) April 8 – Dorothea Susanne of Simmern, Duchess of Saxe-Weimar (b. 1544) April 13 – Bartolomeo Ammannati, Italian architect and sculptor (b. 1511) April 18 – George John I, Count Palatine of Veldenz (b. 1543) April 21 – Christoph, Count of Hohenzollern-Haigerloch (b. 1552) May 17 – Paschal Baylon, Spanish mystic and saint (b. 1540) May 24 – Nikolaus Selnecker, German musician (b. 1530) June 17 – Ernst Ludwig, Duke of Pomerania (b. 1545) July 1 – Marc'Antonio Ingegneri, Italian composer (b. c. 1547) July 4 – Francesco Bassano the Younger, Italian painter (b. 1559) July 6 – John George of Ohlau, Duke of Oława and Wołów (1586-1592) (b. 1552) July 18 – Sibylle of Saxony, Duchess of Saxe-Lauenburg (b. 1515) July 22 – Ludwig Rabus, German martyrologist (b. 1523) July 26 – Armand de Gontaut, baron de Biron, French soldier (b. 1524) August 20 – William the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (b. 1535) August 25 William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel) (b. 1532) Shimazu Toshihisa, Japanese samurai (b. 1537) September 3 – Robert Greene, English writer (b. 1558) September 13 – Michel de Montaigne, French essayist (b. 1533) September 20 – Francisco Vallés, Spanish physician (b. 1524) October 15 – Jean Vendeville, law professor, Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1527) October 19 – Anthony Browne, 1st Viscount Montagu, English politician (b. 1528) October 28 – Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Flemish diplomat (b. 1522) November 17 – King John III of Sweden (b. 1537) November 27 – Nakagawa Hidemasa, Japanese military commander (b. 1568) December 3 – Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. 1545) Date unknown Moderata Fonte, Italian poet, writer and philosopher (b. 1555) Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, Spanish explorer (b.