publishes a widely translated account of his detention by the Tupí people of Brazil, ("True Story and Description of a Country of Wild, Naked, Grim, Man-eating People in the New World, America"). Births January 1 – Stephen Bocskay, Prince of Transylvania (d. 1606) February 11 – Johannes Wtenbogaert, Leader of the Remonstrants (d. 1644) February 15 Alfonso Fontanelli, Italian composer (d. 1622) Vittoria Accoramboni, Italian noblewoman (d. 1585) February 24 – Mathias, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1619) March 21 – Anne Howard, Countess of Arundel, English countess and poet (d. 1630) March 22 – Casimir VI, Duke of Pomerania and Lutheran Administrator of Cammin Prince-Bishopric (d. 1605) April 4 – Lew Sapieha, Polish-Lithuanian noble (d. 1633) April 11 – Frederick, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Vohenstrauss-Parkstein (d. 1597) May 5 – Emanuel Philibert de Lalaing, Belgian noble and army commander (d. 1590) May 31 – Tsar Feodor I of Russia (d. 1598) June 10 – Leandro Bassano, Italian painter (d. 1622) June 28 – Philip Howard, 20th Earl of Arundel, English nobleman (d. 1595) August 16 – Agostino Carracci, Italian painter and graphical artist (d. 1602) August 19 – Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1608) August 26 – Sibylle of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, Duchess of Jülich-Cleves-Berg by birth and by marriage Margravine of Burgau (d. 1628) September 4 – Sophie of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, Danish-Norwegian royal consort (d. 1631) September 11 – Joseph Calasanz, Spanish priest and founder of Piarists (d. 1648) September 16 – Jacques Mauduit, French composer (d. 1627) October 5 – Antoine Favre, Savoisian lawyer, first President of the Sovereign Senate of Savoy (d. 1624) date unknown Julius Caesar, English judge and politician (d. 1636) Giovanni Croce, Italian composer (d. 1609) Balthasar Gérard, assassin of William I of Orange (d. 1584) Toda Katsushige, Japanese warlord (d. 1600) Olaus Martini, Archbishop of Uppsala (d. 1609) Thomas Morley, English composer (d. 1602) Oda Nobutada, Japanese general (d. 1582) probable – Giovanni Gabrieli, Italian composer and organist (d. 1612) Deaths January 2 – Pontormo, Italian painter (b. 1494) January 4 – Philip, Duke of Mecklenburg, (b. 1514) January 8 – Albert Alcibiades, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach ("Albert the Warlike"), Prince of Bayreuth (b. 1522) March 13 – Louis de Bourbon de Vendôme, French cardinal (b. 1493) April 9 – Mikael Agricola, Finnish scholar (b. c. 1510) April 24 – Georg Rörer, German theologian (b. 1492) April 29 – Lautaro, Mapuche warrior (b. 1534) May 18 –