Erdmuthe of Brandenburg, Duchess of Pomerania-Stettin (d. 1623) July 2 – Christoph Grienberger, Austrian astronomer (d. 1636) July 11 – Luís de Góngora y Argote, Spanish poet (d. 1627) July 17 – Jacopo Corsi, Italian composer (d. 1602) July 24 – Maria of the Palatinate-Simmern, Duchess consort of Södermanland (1579-1589) (d. 1589) August 14 – Christopher Heydon, English politician (d. 1623) August 20 – Jacopo Peri, Italian composer (d. 1633) August 24 Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk (d. 1626) Bartholomaeus Pitiscus, German astronomer and mathematician (d. 1613) August 25 – Philippe van Lansberge, Dutch astronomer (d. 1632) September 1 – Gervase Helwys, English murderer (d. 1615) September 3 – Yi Eokgi, Korean admiral (d. 1597) September 10 – Hernando Arias de Saavedra, Spanish colonial governor (d. 1634) September 21 – Edward Seymour, Viscount Beauchamp, son of Edward Seymour Sr. (d. 1612) September 28 – Roland Lytton, English politician (d. 1615) September 29 – Adriaan van Roomen, Belgian mathematician (d. 1615) October 11 (bapt.) – Thomas Lake, English Secretary of State to King James I (d. 1630) October 15 – Richard Field, English cathedral dean (d. 1616) October 24 – Anthony Babington, English criminal (d. 1586) October 27 – Mary Sidney, English writer, patroness and translator (d. 1621) November 1 – Francesco Usper, Italian composer (d. 1641) November 16 – Andreas Angelus, German pastor, teacher, chronicler of the Mark of Brandenburg (d. 1598) December 1 – Sophie Hedwig of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, duchess consort of Pomerania-Wolgast (1577-1592) (d. 1631) December 7 – Kikkawa Hiroie, Japanese politician (d. 1625) December 9 – Edwin Sandys, English founder of the colony of Virginia (d. 1629) December 16 – Amandus Polanus, German theologian of early Reformed orthodoxy (d. 1610) date unknown – Stephen Bachiler, non-conformist minister and pioneer settler of New England (d. 1656) Deaths January 9 – Amago Haruhisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1514) January 13 – Frederick Magnus I, Count of Solms-Laubach, (b. 1521) January 31 Menno Simons, Anabaptist religious leader and Mennonite founder (b. 1496) Bairam Khan, Turkoman noble and poet (assassinated) February 13 – Francis I, Duke of Nevers (b. 1516) February 26 – Jorge de Montemor, Spanish writer (b. 1520) March 6 – Gonçalo da Silveira, Portuguese Jesuit missionary (b. 1526) March 24 – Giulio d'Este, illegitimate son of Italian noble (b. 1478) March 25 – Conrad Lycosthenes, humanist and encyclopedist (b. 1518) March 28 – Bartholomeus V. Welser, German