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== Deaths ==
[[File:Feodor I of Russia - Project Gutenberg eText 20880.jpg|thumb|110px|Tsar [[Feodor I of Russia]]]]
[[File:Philip II portrait by Titian.jpg|thumb|110px|King [[Philip II of Spain]]]]
[[File:Toyotomi Hideyoshi c1598 Kodai-ji Temple.png|thumb|110px|[[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]]]]
[[File:YiSunsin person.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Yi Sun-sin]]]]
* [[January 8]] – [[John George, Elector of Brandenburg]], Margrave and Elector of Brandenburg and Duke of Prussia (b. [[1525]])
* [[January 9]] – [[Jasper Heywood]], English Jesuit classicist and translator (b. [[1553]])
* [[January 16]] – Tsar [[Feodor I of Russia]] (b. [[1557]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Perrie | first = Maureen | title = Pretenders and popular monarchism in early modern Russia: the false tsars of the Time of Troubles | publisher = Cambridge University Press | location = Cambridge New York | year = 1995 | isbn = 9780521472746 | page=21}}</ref>
* [[February 10]] – [[Anne of Austria, Queen of Poland]] (b. [[1573]])
* [[March 4]] or [[March 5]] – [[Lucas Maius]], Lutheran Reformation pastor, theologian and playwright (b. [[1522]])
* [[March 28]] – [[Michele Bonelli]], Italian Catholic cardinal (b. [[1541]])
* [[April 8]] – [[Ludwig Helmbold]], German classical singer (b. [[1532]])
* [[April 10]] – [[Jacopo Mazzoni]], Italian philosopher (b. [[1548]])
* [[April 19]]
** [[Hans Fugger]], German businessman (b. [[1531]])
** [[Rokkaku Yoshikata]], Japanese daimyō (b. [[1521]])
* [[May 3]] – [[Anna Guarini]], Italian singer (b. [[1563]])
* [[May 18]] – [[Philipp of Bavaria]], German Catholic cardinal (b. [[1576]])
* June – [[Emery Molyneux]], English maker of globes and instruments (date of birth unknown)
* [[June 28]] – [[Abraham Ortelius]], Flemish cartographer and geographer (b. [[1527]])
* [[June 25]] – [[Giacomo Gaggini]], Italian artist (b. [[1517]])
* [[August 4]] – [[William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley]], English statesman (b. [[1520]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Christopher Maginn|title=William Cecil, Ireland, and the Tudor State|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eiCc61niHnYC&pg=PA191|date=March 15, 2012|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-969715-1|pages=191|language=en}}</ref>
* [[August 9]] – [[Andreas Angelus]], German pastor, teacher, chronicler of the Mark of Brandenburg (b. [[1561]])
* [[September 13]] – [[Philip II of Spain]] (b. [[1527]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Fernand Braudel|title=The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II: Volume II|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LPp63EKb9moC&pg=PA1234|year=1995|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-20330-3|pages=1234|language=en}}</ref>
* [[September 18]] – [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]], Japanese warlord (b. [[1537]])
* [[October 11]] – [[Joachim Camerarius the Younger]], German scientist (b. [[1534]])
* [[November 12]] – [[Johannes Schenck von Grafenberg]], German physician (b. [[1530]])
* [[December 6]] – [[Paolo Paruta]], Italian historian (b. [[1540]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The Catholic Encyclopedia: New Mexico-Philip|publisher=Appleton|year=1911|page=510}}</ref>
* [[December 15]] – [[Philips of Marnix, Lord of Saint-Aldegonde]], Dutch writer and statesman (b. [[1538]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=May King|author2=David Leer Ringo|author3=William K. Barnarad|title=Supplemental research and history (volume XIV)|publisher=McDowell Publications for the Freeborn Family Association|year=2001|page=24}}</ref>
* [[December 16]] – [[Yi Sun-sin]], Korean naval leader (b. [[1545]])
* [[December 31]] – [[Heinrich Rantzau]], German humanist writer, astrologer, and astrological writer (b. [[1526]])
* ''date unknown''
** [[Abdullah Khan II|Abdulla Khan]], Uzbek/Turkoman ruler
** [[Teodora Ginés]], Dominican musician and composer (b. c. [[1530]])
** Nicolas Pithou, French lawyer and author (b. [[1524]])